LB100 case study: Travers Smith Legal Business You can always rely on Travers Smith for revenue growth; the City independent has posted its ninth consecutive year of…
LB100 case study: Hill Dickinson Legal Business Things have gone from bad to worse at insurance and shipping specialist Hill Dickinson, as the firm recorded a second…
Methodology and notes Legal Business LB100 law firms The firms that appear in the Legal Business 100 (LB100) are the top 100 law firms in…
Legal Business 100 2018: Main table Legal Business View the table as a pdf. Click to return to the Legal Business 100 menu
Legal Business 100 2018: Partner earnings Legal Business Top 50 firms ranked by highest top of equity
LB100 Second 50: London stalling? Thomas Alan With initial post-referendum Brexit shock giving way to pre-breakaway uncertainty, the boutique and mid-market London firms in the second half…
LB100 Second 50: Regional view – Comfortably numb Hamish McNicol Consolidation, planning, investment and ‘cautious optimism’ proved dominant themes for the smaller regional and national firms in this year’s Legal…
LB100 case study: Harbottle & Lewis Legal Business Harbottle & Lewis maintained its status as one of London’s fastest growing law firms last year, with the West End…
LB100 case study: Shepherd and Wedderburn Legal Business Scotland’s third-largest firm by revenue, Shepherd and Wedderburn, had largely been thought to have fallen behind Brodies and Burness Paull…
Legal Business 100 2018: Core stats Legal Business LB100 averages Average revenue £242.3m Average revenue growth 10% Revenue per lawyer £355,000 Profit per lawyer £112,000 Profit per equity…
Global 100: The stories of the year Legal Business 2017 July Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer co-managing partner Chris Pugh stepped down less than halfway into his term, making him the…
Global 100 Overview: They might be giants Nathalie Tidman It has been a dramatic year for the world’s top 100 law firms in three respects. Our prediction that the…
Global 100: Wrecking ball – Inside Kirkland & Ellis’ creative destruction Marco Cillario They said rapid growth is hard if you are already big. Last year it hiked revenue 19% from $2.65bn. They…
Global 100 ten-year view: Bad timing Mark McAteer In the last boom year in 2008 before the global financial crisis took its toll, the picture was rosy for…
Global 100: Core stats Legal Business Ten fastest growing firms by revenue Ten fastest shrinking firms by revenue
Global 100 Asia Focus: Long-term greedy Tom Baker The clichéd view of the Asia legal market is that it is a very difficult place for international firms to…
Global 100: Methodology and end notes Legal Business The firms that appear in the 2018 Global 100 are the largest 100 law firms in the world ranked by…