Dual role for Barclays’ company secretary as veteran GC Hoyt stands down Mark McAteer Barclays has announced the appointment of Stephen Shapiro as group general counsel, in addition to his current role as group…
Guest post: The pervasive impact of your mood Guest Blog Your mood stays with you much longer than you think and has an impact that you probably aren’t even aware…
CC becomes third City leader to achieve post-pandemic growth as revenues climb £110m Alex Novarese With the coronavirus pandemic still wreaking havoc across many industry sectors, London’s legal elite has continued to buck the dire…
A&O shrugs off lockdown to hike revenues 4% to £1.69bn in first post-pandemic results from UK law elite Alex Novarese There has been much speculation about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the profession but the first set of…
Guest post: Having an honest conversation with ourselves is the first step Guest Blog Intellectually we all understand that how we feel has an effect on us. We understand that most of the time…
Linklaters edges revenue up despite global slump as City results start flowing in Alex Novarese Traditionally, like the proverbial London transit, you wait ages for one set of Magic Circle results and then they start…
‘Let’s tear up the rule book’ – Boies chief sets out her stall for a radical rethink of the elite law firm model Guest Blog If law firms are to survive and thrive, they must dramatically modernise the way they work and serve their clients;…
Guest post: How legal services providers should be changing their models for the digital age Guest Blog Covid-19 continues to disrupt our personal and professional norms. In business – particularly, the legal industry – seismic shifts are…
CC breaks ground with 15% ethnic minority target for partners but can the profession follow through? Alex Novarese Is the next front on diversity in the profession targets for ethnic minority representation? The industry looks to be slowly…
Build Back Better: Two things associates need to know (and neither is ‘how to code’) Guest Blog The other day we were presenting a webinar on ‘The Lawyer of the Future’ to a firm’s summer associate class,…
Comment: Are stressed junior lawyers being struck off too easily? It’s time for watchdogs to consider a more flexible approach Alex Novarese In my line of work you’re supposed to pretend ideas come out of nowhere but this column was triggered by…
Guest comment: An argument for outside investment in law firms for the post-Covid era Guest Blog More than a decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, the world finds itself gripped by a pandemic and the…
Signs of intent – Freshfields shrugs off US caution to secure high-stakes West Coast launch Alex Novarese Observers of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have grown used to the City giant undercutting bold claims for its US strategy with…
Leadership in a crisis (or how to build the ship while sailing it) Guest Blog The Covid-19 crisis is creating a lot of learning and insight across the legal sector and the wider communities in…
Resetting associate comp – Better to bend than break but a rethink is still overdue Alex Novarese While it’s surprising in some regards that it took this long, Allen & Overy has done the UK legal market…
Kirkland vs Covid-19 – How the world’s largest law firm handles this crisis will define it… and the global elite Alex Novarese For journalists, ill winds usually bring a few benefits, not least that readers have greater interest in what we’re churning…
Comment: Letter from New York – Assessing the world’s top law hub now and after the crisis Guest Blog Regular readers are familiar with our custom of penning ‘Letters from…’ when we’ve spent time in a major city and…
Comment: A triumph of hope over experience – Lateral hiring needs an upgrade for the post-Covid era Guest Blog Law firm leaders are getting restless. They are beginning to look past Covid-19 to what comes next. Even if finances…
Comment: We need to talk about George – It’s time the profession found its voice on race Alex Novarese If there is one topic on which the legal profession manages to be both verbose and yet perennially avoid substantive…
Comment: Falling stock – DWF’s predictable woes will hang over the listed legal sector for years Alex Novarese It’s fair to say that Legal Business has long been sceptical of the prospects for listed UK law firms, and…
