Guest post: The New World of Legal Work vs Global Behemoths
There’s an interesting tension between Sir Nigel Knowles prediction of legal behemoths straddling the globe with investment bankers outriders (or…
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DISSENT: Where do you want your firm to be in 2020?
Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law…
Leadership: Norman enters the fray as CC takes soundings for new global corporate chief
Clifford Chance (CC) has begun its nominations process for a potential successor to the role of global corporate chief following…
Cyber warfare – Norton Rose Fulbright hires global chief information security officer
Top ten LB100 firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has moved to further protect client information with the hire the former head…
CC formally launches ‘first-of-its-kind’ Saudi partnership but Riyadh remains a tough nut to crack
Clifford Chance today (6 January) formally announced the launch of its joint Saudi and foreign-owned law firm in Riyadh, boasting…
Post Clifford Chance role for Childs as Financial Reporting Council announce his appointment as Chair
Clifford Chance (CC) outgoing managing partner David Childs has been appointed by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) as chair of its…
The Last Word: A year in review
Aside from bad knitwear and excessive alcohol consumption, Christmas is a time for reflection as well as looking ahead. With…
Merger talks: Dentons and McKenna Long partners say no to a tie-up
Just two days after Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-headquartered Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman called off their potentially game…
Guest post: Time to face the dangerous delusion of the entrepreneurial lawyer
For years, I’ve been hearing law firms describe their cultures as ‘entrepreneurial’ and hardly the slightest attention. Like ‘collegial’ or…
Wragge & Co sees H1 revenues and profits up as Metcalfe to leave after end of MP term
Wragge & Co has named October 2013 as its highest billing month since the boom years as it joins the ranks…
Ashurst to lose another corporate partner in wake of Stephen Lloyd resignation
Having achieved a transcontinental full financial merger with Blake Dawson almost without drama there will be those who say Ashurst…
Ashurst corporate head Stephen Lloyd quits in set-back for Anglo-Australian giant
Ashurst global head of corporate Stephen Lloyd has resigned in a move that comes within weeks of a vote for full…
Davis Polk and Cleary act on big four Booz takeover as PwC re-shuffles legal leadership
Major accountancy and advisory groups are always nice clients for law firms to have so Davis Polk & Wardwell, Cleary…
Consolidation update – Dentons and McKenna chiefs back tie-up with November partner vote to follow
Dentons looks set to secure another substantive merger after management of the firm and US suitor McKenna Long & Aldridge…
‘I could walk away but I don’t want to’: Mansfield QC explains launch of virtual chambers following Tooks closure
The recent dissolution of Tooks Chambers was widely regarded as a sign of the times, as legal aid cuts coupled…
Ashurst closes in on Australian tie-up and leadership election
As Ashurst dots the Is and crosses the Ts on its merger with Australian top-tier firm Blake Dawson, a number of…
How to improve a law firm in 17 easy steps – a blue print for innovation
While pundits are queuing up to pronounce the death of the industry’s model, Legal Business canvassed senior figures to devise…
Comment: The lingering enigma of BLP’s bad year
Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…
Guest post: Topline heroin – how global law became addicted to the wrong measure of success
One lens through which to view a large part of the corpus of business and management literature is that of…
Guest post: ‘Culture’ wins yet another victory over business judgment (or how to actually have a law firm strategy)
Here’s Scenario One: you’re in an executive committee or practice group or departmental meeting at your law firm, and the…