The Global 100 overview: Atlas shrugged Mark McAteer Political shocks, gyrating currencies and choppy markets – it has been yet another testing year for the Global 100. Legal…
The Global 100: The Zone – The US elite turns up the pressure Madeleine Farman The gap between top US firms and the middle-tier masses continues to widen as pressure to secure top-decile talent intensifies.…
The Global 100: The European question – Have years of cuts left the Magic Circle exposed as Brexit looms? Madeleine Farman London’s top firms have been quietly retrenching for years in mainland Europe. As Brexit looms, where has that left…
Solid foundations but a struggle to build – Can BLP regain the confidence of its 2000s heyday? Multiple Authors Last year did not run smoothly for Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). Merger talks with Greenberg Traurig publicly fell apart amid…
‘It’s the clothes on top that matter’: how much does structure affect the Swiss Verein firms? Kathryn McCann DLA Piper, the world’s second-largest Swiss Verein-structured law firm, saw global turnover in 2016 drop 3% to $2.47bn from $2.54bn.…
London calling: the client view Kathryn McCann ‘I prefer to use the Magic Circle rather than US firms. They are, if anything, becoming better-run businesses.’ Philip Bramwell,…
Magic Circle playbooks in Europe are full of contradictions Alex Novarese To recap as the UK tiptoes towards banana republic territory in the wake of last month’s inconclusive, prediction-defying general election:…
Answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table Legal Business Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have,…
A grinding year for the Global 100 as US leaders assert dominance Legal Business Casting an eye over the results for the world’s 100 largest law firms, 2016/17 has been the definition of grinding…
The last word: Global horizons Legal Business ‘Recent events have not helped the UK’s Brexit negotiating hand – or foot, which now sports a large bullet hole.’…
Life during law: Juan Picón, DLA Piper Kathryn McCann I come from a big family. The only male. I have four sisters and was exposed to the talent and…
City’s big four rides churning forex markets as A&O leads the Magic Circle on results Kathryn McCann Double-digit fee growth for A&O, Links and CC but Freshfields stalls Dramatic swings in foreign currencies against Brexit-battered sterling have…
Ince & Co brings in alternative career to partnership as it shakes up associate pay Madeleine Farman Ince & Co is offering its lawyers the option to choose a different career path from the traditional partner track,…
Mishcon boosts fledgling cyber security consultancy service Tom Baker Mishcon de Reya has brought in Mike Owen from PwC as the fourth member of its expanding cyber security consultancy…
Ashurst loses second Paris team this year as four partners quit for Gibson Dunn Madeleine Farman In a second blow to Ashurst’s Paris office this year, the firm last month lost a four-partner team to Gibson,…
Addleshaws, Ashurst, DLA and Eversheds Sutherland chosen for DfT’s first rail panel Kathryn McCann Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, DLA Piper and Eversheds Sutherland were selected last month to tier one of the Department for Transport…
High-stakes: White-collar crime teams ready as SFO hits Barclays with landmark prosecution Legal Business White collar specialists scramble in landmark prosecution White-collar crime specialists have scrambled across the City as the Serious Fraud Office…
‘Should be the end of the proposal’: Queen’s Speech reprieve for SFO as abolition move recedes Legal Business Theresa May’s Conservative manifesto pledge to subsume the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the National Crime Agency (NCA) was absent…
