COVER STORY: PITTSBURGH STEAL
How $16bn Mellon Corp drove Reed Smith to get Parker and Richards Butler
COVER STORY: 75%*
*of assistants want an alternative to partnership. Time to act?
COVER STORY: Constant gardeners
Can radical pruning make Asia pay?
COVER STORY: Strongest of links
Cheyne gets down to business
COVER STORY: Flying the flag
Brit firms fight back in the Global 50
COVER STORY: Top billing
Why competition partners are the new stars of M&A
COVER STORY: Pay Day
Why US firms are betting big on private equity
COVER STORY: Fragile States
London's international offices are sized-up
COVER STORY: South Africa Present tense
The 2005 Legal Business assistant special: the carrot of partnership isn't what it was
COVER STORY: Shearman in London
Shearman & Sterling has been plagued by mismanagement, a flurry of departures in London and a flagging New York HQ. Vanessa Pawsey analyses Kenneth MacRitchie's ten years there
COVER STORY: Your worst nightmare
In a special investigation, LB reveals what happens when things go wrong
COVER STORY: On the shelf
COVER STORY: Less is Morley
A&O's vision looks blurred
COVER STORY: Don't look down
With David Childs at the top, Clifford Chance will raise its game. Period
COVER STORY: The Global 50
Across the world, it's getting harder to stand out from your competitors
COVER STORY: Bad habits
Legal Business asks who is responsible for Hammonds' poor state of health