LB100: The Last Word – Market Comment Legal Business From collaboration to rough quarters to restoring market confidence, leaders at Legal Business 100 firms give us their views on…
Legal Business 100 2014: Interactive main table Legal Business A better year but not every LB100 firm can navigate the choppy waters.
LB100: 2014 Legal Business Menu The Top 25 – Wind in their Sails LB100 2014: The Main Table The Second Quartile – Close Hauled…
LB100: Shipping and Insurance – Peaks and Troughs Legal Business If the post-Lehman years have in general been good to the City’s insurance and shipping specialists, 2013/14 has been a…
The Second 50 – Batten Down Kathryn McCann The LB100’s regional players have seen starkly divided fortunes with the South West players sailing ahead while northern firms face choppy…
Converging on boom-time profits without a boom – the big four now and then Legal Business They say averages lie, though in my experience not as much as people, but producing an annual report with 2,000…
Women in law – A belated bandwagon, but still welcome Legal Business Rarely, even in the conservative game of law, has so necessary a measure been so long avoided until the status…
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…
Bakers’ Leite set for second term leading world’s largest law firm Tom Moore Eduardo Leite looks set to be re-appointed as chairman of Baker & McKenzie shortly after it regained its position as…
Reviving deal market lifts LB100 as top UK firms edge up profits and fees Legal Business While the headline Legal Business 100 (LB100) results are once again inflated by significant merger activity at every level, there…
Weil, Gotshal & Manges settles multimillion-pound negligence claim with private equity house Legal Business Weil, Gotshal & Manges has paid over £3m to settle a professional negligence claim made against it in late 2013…
Accounts show fee and profits slide at Edwards Wildman in London as partner departures pile up Legal Business Having endured a difficult time in recent months with an exodus of partners from its London office, US law firm…
‘Clifford Chance is brave to be looking at these things’: City giant mulls move towards all-equity Legal Business Latest proposed changes by Magic Circle firm after recent overhaul of governance structure Having taken the summer to vote through…
Hong Kong Law Society president forced to go amid row over independence from China Legal Business Ambrose Lam, president of the Hong Kong Law Society since May last year, was forced to resign on 19 August…
Mishcons set to move to full-equity LLP in 2015 Legal Business Mishcon de Reya is set to bring all partners into the equity and convert to a limited liability partnership at…
Short-term boom but long-term questions loom for lawyers if Scotland votes to go it alone Legal Business Michael West finds mixed feelings on independence from Scotland’s bloodied legal profession It’s long been a hoary cliché to say…
Will $50bn Yukos award lead states to pull out of international arbitration treaties? Legal Business The landmark Yukos decision has forced governments to consider the consequences of entering into international treaties that allow foreign investors…
After a patchy 2013 and a high-profile finance departure, can Weil sustain its City momentum? Legal Business Tom Moore assesses the recent upheaval at Weil and talks to City head Francies about its ambitions Life has never…
A&O joins US firms on Walgreens’ acquisition of Alliance Boots Tom Moore US advisers take the lead on £5.6bn takeover of UK institution The Walgreen Company has instructed New York law firm…
