LB100 South – Down South Legal Business The situation remains typically sluggish in the South, where firms continue to tread water as far as profits are concerned…
LB100 Central – Fighting Back Legal Business Two years of holding the dubious distinction of being the worst performing peer group in the LB100 based on revenue…
LB100 North – Northern Soul Legal Business The line-up of North peer group firms has changed again. Following the departures of DWF and Hill Dickinson to the…
LB100 Scotland – Flying the Saltire Legal Business One firm in particular again stands out from the morass of misery that has beset the Scottish legal market in…
LB100 Endnotes and Methodology Legal Business The firms that appear in the LB100 are the top 100 firms in the UK, ranked by gross fee income…
LB100 2012 – The 20 year tracker Legal Business This chart plots how well our 51 ‘survivor’ firms from the orginal LB100 have performed over the past twenty years.…
LB100 2012 – Behind the Numbers: Profitability Revealed Legal Business Which firms are the most profitable? In this table we blend together all of our profitability measures, including PEP, profit…
Two decades of consistency Pritchard When we first published the gross fees of 35 leading firms with revenues over £20m in 1992, we were approaching…
Twenty years on and the numbers still add up Legal Business In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected US president; the Maastricht Treaty was signed and Legal Business published the financial data…
It’s all in a name: why branding matters Legal Business Over the past few months CMS Cameron McKenna’s managing partner Duncan Weston has been on a charm offensive. Through lunches…
Growth in LB100 regional peer groups half that of London Legal Business The capital has extended its position as the most buoyant legal market in the UK, with midsize London law firms…
Positive early signs at combined firm King & Wood Mallesons Legal Business King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has enjoyed a successful first six months as a single firm, according to Handel Lee,…
Katten Muchin Rosenman continues hiring spree Mark McAteer US firm Katten Muchin Rosenman remains on the charge in London following the hire of tax partner Sanjay Mehta from…
CMS group moves closer to one-firm model Legal Business The CMS group, which passed a major milestone this summer when it provided its financial results as a single entity…
Trowers unveils new strategy as Adlington bows out Legal Business Trowers & Hamlins senior partner elect Jennie Gubbins has told LB that she is looking to raise the firm’s corporate…
Rule changes put transfer pricing practices centre stage David Stevenson The increased global focus of governments on tax avoidance means a handful of international law firms have been pushing their…
Family law firms clamber to get arbitrators on board David Stevenson Private client firms are scrambling to bolster their arbitration capabilities six months after family law arbitration was introduced in England…
Wealth management – Filling big shoes Mark McAteer The global diversification of wealth continues to drive the efforts of law firms’ private client teams as the world’s population…
Global 100 – Global Elite – Hollow victory Legal Business The Global Elite continues to dominate the international legal market. But with ailing global markets and little to no M&A,…
