Dissent: Platitudes and a missed debate – how GCs are pushed off their ethical course Legal Business Paul Gilbert argues that lazy thinking and perverse incentives are dulling the ethical and intellectual edge of in-house counsel It’s…
LB100: The Last Word – Market Comment Legal Business From collaboration to rough quarters to restoring market confidence, leaders at Legal Business 100 firms give us their views on…
Legal Business 100 2014: Interactive main table Legal Business A better year but not every LB100 firm can navigate the choppy waters.
Efficiency as a driver of legal innovation Legal Business Thomson Reuters looks at the exciting future of legal services in the wake of a rapidly changing legal market. If…
Achieving financial independence is so much easier if you create a plan Legal Business Towry’s Chris Cole explains how they help legal partners achieve lifetime financial goals Over the many years we have been…
Professional indemnity: PI insurance – dos and don’ts Legal Business Marsh’s Sandra Neilson-Moore reflects on the process of applying for professional indemnity insurance, with some added thoughts on cyber liability…
LB100: 2014 Legal Business Menu The Top 25 – Wind in their Sails LB100 2014: The Main Table The Second Quartile – Close Hauled…
LB100: Shipping and Insurance – Peaks and Troughs Legal Business If the post-Lehman years have in general been good to the City’s insurance and shipping specialists, 2013/14 has been a…
Weil, Gotshal & Manges pays out multi-million pound settlement over professional negligence claim Legal Business Weil, Gotshal & Manges has paid over £3m to settle a professional negligence claim made against it in late 2013…
‘We would expect to bring in a few more lateral hires’ -Slaughter and May loses London tax partner to Greenberg Traurig Maher Legal Business Having broken with tradition in making its first-ever lateral hire this year, Slaughter and May has seen a rare departure…
Clifford Chance drops University of Law for arch-rival BPP Legal Business Clifford Chance (CC) has turned to BPP Law School as its new training provider in a blow to the University…
Squire Patton Boggs takes Sidley Austin’s last German partner as Taylor Wessing builds private client practice Legal Business Eight years after founding Sidley Austin’s office in Frankfurt, Jens Rinze, the firm’s last remaining partner in the country after…
News in brief – September 2014 Legal Business Squire Patton Boggs loses 23-strong team in Middle East Squire Patton Boggs saw the departure of five partners and 18…
Women in law – rising up the agenda but female lawyer numbers continue to slide at elite UK law firms Legal Business Even for the most jaded denizen of the City legal community it’s been hard to avoid noticing the greater emphasis…
Olswang appoints first board non-executives as it continues management overhaul Legal Business David Chance and Andreas Raffel have joined Olswang today (1 September) as the firm’s first non-executive directors to monitor and…
Asia: Simmons & Simmons launches Beijing IP agency as Bakers hires from Magic Circle firms in HK push Legal Business Simmons & Simmons has created a specialist trade mark practice in China, hiring George Chan as a partner from Asia…
Ropes & Gray loses high yield partner Bloom as Jones Day builds capital markets practice Legal Business High-yield expert Jonathan Bloom has quit Ropes & Gray after five years to join rival US firm Jones Day’s London…
Reviving deal market lifts LB100 as top UK firms edge up profits and fees Legal Business While the headline Legal Business 100 (LB100) results are once again inflated by significant merger activity at every level, there…
Shearman & Sterling and Slaughters lead on Bridgepoint’s £212m purchase of Moneycorp Legal Business Shearman & Sterling has advised European private equity group Bridgepoint on its £212m acquisition of Moneycorp, a foreign exchange provider,…
Guest Blog: Are you behaviourally challenged? How you frame advice could influence client decisions Legal Business I finally got round to reading this report from John Maule on the Legal Services Board research pages. It sells…
