Crunching the data – Trends and tribulations Legal Business The Partnership Scoreboard – Trends and tribulations As part of our analysis of the modern realities of partnership, Legal Business…
Partnership Perspectives Tom Baker ‘The Dickensian management role of closed doors is a thing of the past.’ Jonathan Kewley, partner and co-head of Clifford…
The New Normal is good news for litigators Alex Novarese Returning with our fourth annual Disputes Yearbook, by far the largest we have yet published, it is still a great…
Sponsored briefing: Redefining dispute resolution – challenging orthodoxy Guest Blog Herbert Smith Freehills reports on evidence that technology and collaboration should drive a new approach to dispute resolution Herbert Smith…
The disputes funding debate: The value of everything Mark McAteer Craig Arnott, Burford Capital: Litigation finance used to be perceived as a last-ditch resort for impecunious clients. That has transformed,…
Sponsored firm profile: RPC Guest Blog A decade ago RPC hardly featured on the radar of hard-hitting City litigation firms. It is now one of the…
Boutiques: Highly evolved Tom Baker With the disputes market evolving and clients becoming more discerning, it has been a phenomenal ten years for boutique law…
Sponsored briefing: The inside view – Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP Guest Blog Disputes specialist Joseph Hage Aaronson has achieved extraordinary results in a market packed with high achievers. Here’s everything you need…
Sponsored briefing: Cyber space – fighting fraudsters in a brave new world Guest Blog As cyber crime continues to hit the headlines English courts are starting to adapt the traditional remedies used to tackle…
The Bar Elite: Silk and steel Dominic Carman Despite Brexit, costs pressures and the loss of financial crisis work, reports of the commercial Bar’s decline are overblown. We…
Sponsored chambers profile: Wilberforce Chambers Guest Blog Q&A with Nicholas Luckman, practice director of Wilberforce Chambers 1. The Bar and chambers themselves have evolved significantly over the…
Sponsored briefing: Opportunistic conduct and good faith – the line that joint venturers may not cross Guest Blog Hardwicke’s David Lewis and Emma Hynes assess the duty of good faith in a classic relational contract following the recent…
Perspectives: Stephen Parkinson, Kingsley Napley Tom Baker I didn’t intend to become a lawyer. I’m the first of my family; we’ve been teachers and priests. My brother…
Perspectives: Clive Zietman, Stewarts Tom Baker I got into law almost by default. I didn’t even like it when I started with Herbert Smith where I…
The Silk Round: One fine day Tom Baker Legal Business writes many high-minded pieces focused on the finer analytical points of the legal industry. This is not one…
The International Arbitration Summit: Trusting the cowboys Legal Business I am going to take a narrow view of a narrow subject: less of a keynote speech, more of a…
Sponsored briefing: Why choose Belgrade as a seat of arbitration? Guest Blog Senka Mihaj, Nemanja Ilić and Marko Milanović of Mihaj, Ilić & Milanović explain the advantages of carrying out arbitration proceedings…
Sponsored briefing: CRCICA – ‘the granddaddy of arbitration in the region’ Guest Blog Ismail Selim and Dalia Hussein of The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration provide a detailed breakdown of the…
Sponsored briefing: Managing the cost of an arbitration – you may have more options than you think Guest Blog As third-party funding becomes increasingly mainstream, this article highlights the importance of considering both funding and insurance when looking for…
