Legal Business

Legal Business 100 2023: Stuck records

Gramophone records from the 50s, 60s, 70s on red. Three vinyl records with Soviet songs from Soviet times. Vintage. Odesa, Ukraine - 04 27 2021

Overview: Here comes the rain again

Our 2023 Legal Business 100 report finds law firm leaders in unusually pensive mood with the inevitable end to the transactional bull run. How will firms adapt to having to change the record?

The LB100 main table

Key financials of the top 100 firms

The LB100 partner earnings table

The LB100 core stats

The second 25: Riders of the storm

After an uncharacteristically muted performance last year, the LB100’s longstanding pacesetters – firms in the 26-50 quartile – find that lightning can strike twice. What will it take for the group to rebound?

The second 50 – City and boutique: London falling?

A diverse mix of specialist boutiques and full-service firms, the London mid-market players are struggling to prove which strategy works in competitive conditions

The second 50 – Regional view: Coming together

Consolidation is rife among regional and national firms occupying the second half of the LB100. A sign of things to come?

Firm profiles

Firm profile Eversheds Sutherland: ‘Beyond the soundbites’

Firm profile Womble Bond Dickinson: ‘Joining the dots’

gunnercooke: ‘Cooking up a storm?’

Endnotes

Methodology and notes