Revolving doors: HSF takes two senior New York litigators from Hogan Lovells as Littler expands in Portugal Tom Baker Amid a hectic week for lateral partner recruitment, Herbert Smith Freehills has picked up two former Hogan Lovells financial litigation partners in New…
Guest post: Any COP? – mixed messages at UN climate summit as usual platitudes belie call for action Guest Blog As the 2021 United Nations Climate Change conference enters full swing in Glasgow, Tim Baines, counsel in Mayer Brown’s environmental…
The Bribery Act, ten years on: Has it properly tackled corporate misconduct? Tom Baker Marking the ten-year anniversary of the Bribery Act, senior white-collar lawyers from private practice and in-house have agreed that significant…
The management interview – James Palmer Tom Baker Legal Business: What has the pandemic taught you about leadership? James Palmer: Everything teaches me. The last 15 months or…
The Legal 500: Competition: Close competition Charles Avery ‘Brexit was a big moment,’ notes Allen & Overy (A&O) London antitrust group head Mark Friend. ‘It has big ramifications…
Legal Business 100: Main Menu Legal Business Overview Marathon, not a sprint Events since coronavirus hit should have triggered a crisis of epic proportions. But our LB100…
LB100: Methodology and notes Legal Business LB100 LAW FIRMS The firms that appear in the Legal Business 100 (LB100) are the top 100 law firms in…
LB100 Overview: Marathon, not a sprint Nathalie Tidman The phrase has long been a cliché among industry circles, but no-one is better at being cautiously optimistic than a…
LB100 Second 25: The great leap upwards Tom Baker Analysing and then explaining the performance of the LB100’s 26-50 bracket is far from straightforward. The monumental disruption of the last…
LB100 Second 50: Regional View – Faster, higher, stronger Mark McAteer The regional and smaller national firms that sit in the 51-100 bracket of the Legal Business 100 (LB100) have again…
LB100 Second 50: City and Boutique – Percentage play Mark McAteer The 21 London-based firms that sit in the second half of the LB100, many of which are specialist, focused players,…
Access your print copy online – LB304 Legal Business While much of the country works from home we are providing more options for you to access your copy of…
The Last Word: Going the distance Legal Business ‘One of the things I’ve learnt from the pandemic is individual wealth and freedom is nothing without collective wealth and…
We’ve listened: important new changes to The Legal 500 UK 2022 Georgina Stanley This month’s issue of Legal Business may be dedicated to the largest firms in the UK by revenue but sibling…
LB100 proves pacier than hoped but there’s plenty of ground still to cover Nathalie Tidman While commentary from LB100 leaders in recent years may have occasionally sounded like a broken record, with gingerly repeated soundbites…
Life During Law: Natasha Harrison Tom Baker My maths teacher was married to a criminal barrister, so I did a mini-pupillage at his set. Loved it but…
