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LB September 2018

  • The Legal Business 100 – Contents
  • The LB100 overview: Crisis? What crisis?
  • Draining the swamp – Do NDAs represent a #MeToo problem for the profession?
  • The talent debate: The war rages on
  • Grieve on Brexit: No great advantage
  • The one true law – in conversation with Lord Neuberger
  • Client profile: Julie Smyth, BAE Systems Air
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  4. Travers makes pension play with Sackers hire as KFC GC Nelson-Smith decamps to WeWork
  5. Rosenblatt battles Brexit uncertainty in post-IPO financials as it launches litigation funder

  • Legal Business 100

    Overview: Crisis? What crisis?

    Main table

    Partner earnings

    Behind the numbers – Profitability revealed

    Core stats

    The second 25: The ex-pistols

    The second 50: London stalling?

    The second 50: Regional view – Comfortably numb

    Case study: Clifford Chance

    Case study: Harbottle & Lewis

    Case study: Hill Dickinson

    Case study: Shepherd and Wedderburn

    Case study: Taylor Wessing

    Case study: Travers Smith

    Methodology and notes

    The Last Word: One way or another

  • Legal Business Global 100 2018

    Overview: They might be giants

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    Asia Focus: Long-term greedy

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