Guest post: A fight to the death- can the Law Society and its regulatory arm continue as now? Legal Business ‘My terms of reference include a requirement to propose a framework that promotes the public and consumer interest, promotes competition,…
Legal aid reform: Grayling scraps competitive tendering plans Legal Business Fears that the government is reducing the justice system to a ‘stack it high and sell it cheap’ model were…
Real estate round up: Macfarlanes, HSF, Slaughter and May and Hengeler Mueller each win key commercial property mandates Legal Business It’s been a week for the traditional corporate bluebloods to shine in real estate-related work, with Macfarlanes, Slaughter and May…
That bright shiny idea – the in-house teams trying to move from costs to business driver Legal Business With mounting pressure on legal teams to up productivity, a handful of pioneering GCs have attempted the fundamental shift towards…
LB100 – The top 25: The age of turbulence Legal Business It’s been a bumpy ride for many of the UK’s largest firms, fighting battered profits with consolidation and increased global…
LB 100 – Methodology Legal Business LB100 LAW FIRMS The firms that appear in the LB100 are the top 100 firms in the UK, ranked by…
The thick of it – a brief history of legal PR Legal Business For 20 years now the (mainly) thankless role of the legal PR has put the comms professional between demanding and…
LETR of the day: education review opts for mum ‘n’ apple pie over radical change Legal Business Sarah Downey assesses the much-touted review of legal education It promised so much and delivered so little. The Legal Education…
BPP awarded university status after ‘rigorous’ review Legal Business LPC provider follows arch rival to win university status It has been a long time coming, but in August BPP…
SJ Berwin’s high stakes tie-up with KWM dares to bring a new equation to global law Legal Business David Stevenson and Alex Novarese assess SJ Berwin’s audacious Asia-Pacific tie-up and ask if the union can truly propel the…
European M&A: Big ticket summer mandates scooped by Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Freshfields and Macfarlanes Legal Business Despite corporate partners attesting to a summer lull (if only by their absence from the office), the past month brought…
LB 100 – Profitability Revealed Legal Business Which firms are the most profitable? In this table we blend together all of our profitability measures, including PEP, profit…
Known unknowns – is the legal industry ready to repel the growing threat of cyberattacks? Legal Business Combating cyberattacks on law firms is complicated by the lack of hard information and the shadowy nature of perpetrators. But,…
LB 100 – The Last Word: Eyes on the storm Legal Business From consolidation to price pressure, to market confidence, leading management figures at Legal Business 100 firms give us their views…
The lingering enigma of BLP’s bad year Legal Business Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…
Dissent: Why the in-house triumph over law firms may prove short-lived Legal Business Scott Gibson and Kristi Edwards argue that GCs have secured a short-term advantage over their external advisers at the risk…
Life during law: Mark Rawlinson Legal Business I was in the first ever gender-mixed year at my college in 1976. I got on very well with one…
Private equity: CVC gifts Clifford Chance and Cleary with two major European mandates Legal Business Followers of the tussle between UK and US private equity practices for European mandates were last month rewarded with an…
