LB100 Allen & Overy: Turnover Soars With Globalisation Legal Business Allen & Overy’s worldwide senior partner David Morley remembers doing his first deal for Goldman Sachs as a young partner…
LB100 Osborne Clarke: From South West to West Coast Legal Business Twenty years ago, Osborne Clarke (OC) had revenues of £11.4m and an average PEP of £97,000. It was a Bristol…
LB100 Macfarlanes: Swimming Against The Tide Legal Business At the time of the first LB100, Macfarlanes was three years into a non-exclusive international alliance that included US firm…
LB100 Global Elite – London Stalling Legal Business In its first major overhaul since the introduction of peer groups in 2004, the Global Elite table is only five…
LB100 Major International – One Verein Day Legal Business The Major International peer group made its LB100 debut last year and there’s no doubt that it was a timely…
LB100 City International – New Frontiers Legal Business For this year’s LB100, we have a new peer group: City International. This group comprises firms that have leading practices…
LB100 City Domestic – A Tale of Two Cities Legal Business It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. In a year where eurozone turbulence rocked the…
LB100 Major UK – Pairing Up Legal Business As far as merger headlines go, the Major UK peer group has had a bellyful over the past 12 months.…
LB100 South – Down South Legal Business The situation remains typically sluggish in the South, where firms continue to tread water as far as profits are concerned…
LB100 Central – Fighting Back Legal Business Two years of holding the dubious distinction of being the worst performing peer group in the LB100 based on revenue…
LB100 North – Northern Soul Legal Business The line-up of North peer group firms has changed again. Following the departures of DWF and Hill Dickinson to the…
LB100 Scotland – Flying the Saltire Legal Business One firm in particular again stands out from the morass of misery that has beset the Scottish legal market in…
LB100 Endnotes and Methodology Legal Business The firms that appear in the LB100 are the top 100 firms in the UK, ranked by gross fee income…
LB100 2012 – The 20 year tracker Legal Business This chart plots how well our 51 ‘survivor’ firms from the orginal LB100 have performed over the past twenty years.…
LB100 2012 – Behind the Numbers: Profitability Revealed Legal Business Which firms are the most profitable? In this table we blend together all of our profitability measures, including PEP, profit…
Wealth management – Filling big shoes Mark McAteer The global diversification of wealth continues to drive the efforts of law firms’ private client teams as the world’s population…
Global 100 – Global Elite – Hollow victory Legal Business The Global Elite continues to dominate the international legal market. But with ailing global markets and little to no M&A,…
Global 100 – Dewey & LeBoeuf – Lessons from a downfall Legal Business Dewey & LeBoeuf went from 26th in last year’s Global 100 to filing for bankruptcy in May this year. What…
Power brokers Legal Business As all eyes turn to energy as the safe hedge in a turbulent market, there is no doubt that the…
