Assessing the legal market for our third annual Disputes Yearbook there are many reasons for litigators to be bullish… and just as many to be uneasy.
On the positive side, there is plenty of lucrative big-ticket litigation and arbitration work around. Indeed, when it comes to bet-the-company matters, it is increasingly likely to be contentious lawyers getting the boardroom access craved by major law firms as their corporate counterparts. The London courts have, despite mounting global competition, at the least maintained their clout, buoyed by well received innovations such as the Financial List (whose launch we cover in The Commercial Litigation Summit 2016: Marked to market).
