Comment: Super growth or decline? Which firm are you?
Everyone knows the legal industry has been a different place since the banking crisis but it is only when you…
Legal Business 100
Super growth or decline? Which firm are you?
Everyone knows the legal industry has been a different place since the banking crisis but it is only when you…
Top 100 firms defy Brexit upheaval with confident performance in first quarter of 2017/18
A lack of clarity on the state of Brexit negotiations together with tougher macroeconomic conditions don’t seem to have impacted…
Knights posts 64% revenue growth to move into the LB100
Alternative Business Structure (ABS) Knights has recorded 64% growth in turnover in the last year to achieve £33.5m in revenue.
Comment: Looking forward to Ashurst’s decline – The outlook worsens for a proud City institution
You cannot change the past. Move forward. Be constructive. Focus on making things better. Pick your cliché. And, like most…
Going long: a ten-year view of the LB100
While headline figures for revenue, profit and headcount in this year’s LB100 confirm another year of subdued trading, a look…
Comment: LB100 – Statistically speaking, you may not need a bigger boat
Last year, delivering our annual results issue, Legal Business remarked that the age of turbulence facing law firms since the…
LB100: The Second Quartile – Close Hauled
It’s an unforgiving environment, but 2014 once again shows the well-captained mid-tier outfits sailing free. ‘I’m a great believer that…
Converging on boom-time profits without a boom – the big four now and then
They say averages lie, though in my experience not as much as people, but producing an annual report with 2,000…
LB100: The Second 50 – Ports and Storms
As some seasoned campaigners of the second half of the LB100 prepare to move up a class through mergers, a…
Mergers push the top 100 firms back into double digit growth
A wave of consolidation in the UK legal industry has sparked double digit growth among the top 100 law firms…
Comment: The age of turbulence has only just begun for the UK’s top 100 firms
Respectable, yes, but 2012/13 was a tough year, even by the post-Lehman standards law firm leaders have become accustomed to.…
Comment: If the mid-tier’s days are numbered why do they keep doing so well?
We’ve had five years of unforgiving conditions for law firms, everyone agrees. And in many respects that squeeze has had…
Merger frenzy hikes Legal Business 100 income but growth masks another tough year
The latest Legal Business 100 results show the total revenue of the UK’s top 100 law firms has topped £19bn…
Merger frenzy hikes LB100 income but growth masks another tough year
Lawyer count passes 60,000 but profits fall at top UK firms The latest Legal Business 100 results show the total…
Reports season 2013 – DWF’s acquisition trail sees bumper revenue and profit increase
It has swiftly moved from obscure regional player into one of the most closely watched practices on the national scene…
Panic has ramped up merger mania
A clear message from last month’s LB100 report was that the merger of two firms that have ‘simply cuddled together…
LB100 2012 – Behind the Numbers: Profitability Revealed
Which firms are the most profitable? In this table we blend together all of our profitability measures, including PEP, profit…
Two decades of consistency
When we first published the gross fees of 35 leading firms with revenues over £20m in 1992, we were approaching…