LB100 2014: Statistically speaking, you may not need a bigger boat Legal Business Last year delivering our annual results issue Legal Business remarked that the age of turbulence facing law firms since the…
Dissent: Platitudes and a missed debate – how GCs are pushed off their ethical course Legal Business Paul Gilbert argues that lazy thinking and perverse incentives are dulling the ethical and intellectual edge of in-house counsel It’s…
Advice for the new managing partner: don’t consult, just do Legal Business Given the amount of time I spend hanging out with managing partners it’s not unusual to be asked by law…
‘Nobody knows anything’ – Goldman is more right than Maister Legal Business As journalists and managing partners hit reporting season the understandable urge rises once more to make sense of the legal…
Global 100: a little bit of life before Lehman returns. But only a little Legal Business For all the improving signs, glancing at our annual Global 100 report shows headline performance largely comparable with 2013. The…
Cameronics redux: a hard-to-grasp institution that looks set to surprise Legal Business Given that I get paid to poke around law firms’ inner workings, it’s not that often that I find it…
Partner recruitment: buyer beware Legal Business If the oxymoronic notion of partner recruitment didn’t exist who would invent it? On one level, of course, its emergence…
A bit of hustle, a bit of love – GCs expect attention and pitching from advisers Legal Business In our focus on Nabarro this month the firm comes in for some criticism at the hands of an important…
The last word – strategic recruitment Legal Business From disastrous due diligence to delusions of grandeur, leaders from LB100 firms and senior recruitment specialists give their take on…
DISSENT: A self-deceiving return to business as usual Legal Business RSG’s Reena SenGupta argues an improving economic climate is leading top law firms to wrongly assume the ‘new’ normal is…
Shock horror: economic revival makes it as impossible as ever to make partner Alex Novarese It’s not going to come as a huge shock to our readership of jaded veterans to hear this but the…
DISSENT: A precarious professionalism Legal Business UCL’s Richard Moorhead argues the integrity and professionalism that City lawyers take for granted is all too easily swayed The…
Whose money making machine? Not all law firms will be richer in a bank-lite world Legal Business Cov-lite, cov-loose and even now cov-lame – in some pockets of the finance market we are back to the boom…
The last word – the state of law firm leadership Legal Business With a spate of executive elections taking place recently, we ask the c-suite at leading City firms how management has…
Heading to The Ivy: Legal Business and RPC team up for GC Power List Summer Reception Alex Novarese We’ve made it no secret that a major aim for Legal Business and its Legalease stablemates is to better engage…
‘Geography seduced everyone’ – is emerging market bias blind-siding your firm? Legal Business There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
A truly global City and the fiercest contest in law Legal Business So much for the humbling of the City. Our annual Global London special finds that the number of lawyers employed…
Democracy and half measures are not delivering for Addleshaws Alex Novarese I wrote recently of the need, when commenting on the firms and individual lawyers we cover, to give the benefit…
The last word – American hustle Legal Business In this month’s Global London special we report on the advances made by US firms in London, particularly in litigation.…
American without tears – succession planning at the increasingly transatlantic DLA Piper Francesca Fanshawe So the experiment ends as a qualified success. News of the early-timed succession planning at DLA Piper confirmed that well-regarded…
