LB100 – The second 50 – City and boutique: London falling? Ayesha Ellis This year, 24 London-headquartered and boutique firms can be found in the second half of the LB100, experiencing an average…
LB100 – The second 25: Riders of the storm Holly McKechnie It has been another muted performance from the second 25, typically the strongest-performing group in the LB100 historically. Average revenue…
LB100 – firm profile – Eversheds Sutherland: Beyond the soundbites Ayesha Ellis Having achieved a steady rise in revenue over the past five years, can Eversheds Sutherland maintain its place in the…
LB100 – firm profile – Womble Bond Dickinson: Joining the dots Alex Ryan With mergers and performance across the pond enduringly hot topics in this year’s LB100 report, LB checked in with Womble…
LB100 – firm profile – gunnercooke: Cooking up a storm? Elisha Juttla With pacey revenue growth over the last five years, gunnercooke looks to be a poster child for operating under the…
LB100 – Overview: Here comes the rain again Alex Ryan Last year’s LB100 report saw firm leaders bullish, overwhelmingly characterising a boom market, even as macroeconomic indicators had started to…
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ChatGPT has drunk the Kool-Aid on A&O Shearman – let’s see what it makes of Paul Weiss Nathalie Tidman So much ink has been spilled over game-changing developments in recent weeks – namely the partnership vote in favour of…
Silence is not golden as Legal Business 100 firms need a different tune Nathalie Tidman A glance at our Legal Business 100 table this year shows the post-Covid, frothy corporate market conditions have finally come…
The Last Word: LB100: Market comment Legal Business ‘AI is the bandwagon of the day. The last six months or so have seen an explosion of law firms…
Life During Law: Sandra Paul Ayesha Ellis I head up our criminal defence and police investigations team as well as our sexual misconduct in the workplace practice.…
Kirkland endures more losses as Magic Circle firms continue expansion in the US and Middle East Ayesha Ellis September saw it finally confirmed that, as suspected, M&A lawyer Roger Johnson will join Paul Weiss’ new English law offering,…
Partners vote yes on A&O Shearman – now they have to make it work Alex Ryan ‘You’ve now got one more 64,000lb gorilla,’ said one former UK firm leader, in response to the news that the…
‘A salutary lesson’: Axiom Ince closed by SRA following months of turmoil Holly McKechnie Drawing a long-running saga to its inevitable conclusion, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced on 3 October that it had…
Go big or go home: Market reacts to Paul Weiss’ daring London play Elisha Juttla Grabbing headlines in recent weeks, Paul Weiss has pursued an English law offering at breakneck speed, hiring some of the…
Learning from adjacent industries – the legal teams that thrive and not just survive David Burgess In April 2023, LEX360 and The Legal 500 held the UK’s first ever legal Gemba Walk, utilising methods from Lean…
Sponsored briefing: Ask the private banker to senior lawyers Guest Blog Emily Bernstein is an experienced private banker at Investec who specialises in supporting legal leaders and senior lawyers. Here, she…
