LB100: The Second Quartile – The first shall be last… Jaishree Kalia The City’s mid-tiers defied the critics to achieve market-leading pace through 2015, cementing the gains of recent years. How big…
LB100: The Second 50 – More or less Jaishree Kalia Specialist practices and focused City firms in the second 50 thrived in what remained an uncertain market. The second 50…
LB100: The Second 50 – The Lion & the Unicorn Mark McAteer Regional firms are experiencing mixed fortunes. Can they take advantage of a less London-focused client base? Regional and national firms…
LB100 2015: Methodology and notes Legal Business LB100 LAW FIRMS The firms that appear in the Legal Business 100 (LB100) are the top 100 firms in the…
The LB 100 2015 – Through the looking glass Legal Business Menu The Top 25 – The world turned upside down Case study: Allen & Overy Case Study: Simmons & Simmons…
Case study: Allen & Overy Legal Business Amid a challenging year for London’s top firms, Allen & Overy (A&O) managed to hit its stride with revenue growth…
Case Study: Simmons & Simmons Legal Business Life for a financial services-heavy law firm competing with larger rivals was always going to be challenging after the banking…
Case study: Osborne Clarke Legal Business It was another strong performance from Legal Business’ 2015 Law Firm of the Year, Osborne Clarke (OC), which saw revenues…
Case study: Charles Russell Speechlys Legal Business ‘We have worked very hard since the outset to demonstrate that we are not simply a private client firm,’ says…
Deal machines – the resilience of Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and the mid-tier deal team Legal Business The forced obsolescence of Macfarlanes and Travers Smith as City-focused M&A teams has been as long predicted as it has…
The LB 100 2015 – Through the looking glass Legal Business Menu The Top 25 – The world turned upside down Case study: Allen & Overy Case Study: Simmons & Simmons…
Forget the trusted adviser – the sacred cows of the modern GC Legal Business As an opinionated and jaded observer of the legal industry, it’s rare I read commentary so on point that it…
NYLon – if you can make it there… Legal Business If there is one big trend in the analysis of Legal Business in recent years it is the encroaching existential…
What can you be sure of as the LB100 goes down the rabbit hole? Alex Novarese It’s common in the legal industry to talk about unprecedented change but there are many rules of professional gravity unchanged…
The Last Word: Through the looking glass Legal Business From a successful UK focus to consolidation, LB100 management figures give their reflections on the market So far so good…
The wellness crisis for in-house counsel – you must sort it out Legal Business Paul Gilbert argues that general counsel’s failure to act as a team has heaped a rising burden on stressed in-house…