‘When I worked at Slaughter and May in the noughties, not all big firms were top firms, but all top firms were big,’ Ian Lynam, the co-founder of sports boutique Northridge, tells Legal Business. ‘There wasn’t such a thing as a small firm that was highly ranked and doing top of the market work,’ he adds.
Today, his firm has a tier one Legal 500 ranking for sports law in London. And Northridge is far from alone. From smaller firms like Northridge, which has around 50 lawyers, to larger players like Signature Litigation, all the way through to heavyweight specialists like Quinn at the upper end of the scale, there are now dozens of boutiques and specialist firms ranked in the Legal 500, many with top tier rankings in their areas of focus.
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