Grieve on Brexit: No great advantage Alex Speirs Alex Speirs: Now less than a year out from the UK’s scheduled withdrawal from the EU, how would you characterise…
Legal Business 100 2018: Core stats Legal Business LB100 averages Average revenue £242.3m Average revenue growth 10% Revenue per lawyer £355,000 Profit per lawyer £112,000 Profit per equity…
LB100 case study: Taylor Wessing Legal Business Long-serving managing partner Tim Eyles (pictured) received a nice farewell gift in his last year at the helm of Taylor…
LB100 Second 50: London stalling? Thomas Alan With initial post-referendum Brexit shock giving way to pre-breakaway uncertainty, the boutique and mid-market London firms in the second half…
The talent debate: The war rages on Alex Novarese James Tsolakis, NatWest: One of the great challenges setting this up with Alex is in the long period I have…
Legal 500 Data: The data behind the story David Burgess DLA Piper top-tier global rankings from The Legal 500 DLA Piper has topped this year’s Legal Business 100 with revenue…
Draining the swamp – Do NDAs represent a #MeToo problem for the profession? Nathalie Tidman A light has lately shone on a legal document which, by definition, should never bask in the sunshine. The saga,…
LB100 Second 50: Regional view – Comfortably numb Hamish McNicol Consolidation, planning, investment and ‘cautious optimism’ proved dominant themes for the smaller regional and national firms in this year’s Legal…
Letter from… Moscow: Apocalypse now beckons as sanctions and turmoil batter foreign lawyers in Russia Marco Cillario Remember the days when Russia was the El Dorado of the Western legal elite? Potent New York outfits like Cleary…
LB100 Second 25: The ex-pistols Tom Baker The story of last year’s Legal Business 100 (LB100) was the emergence of a group of mobile mid-tier outfits that…
LB100 case study: Harbottle & Lewis Legal Business Harbottle & Lewis maintained its status as one of London’s fastest growing law firms last year, with the West End…
Enterprise GC 2018: Tumbling into crisis Catherine Wycherley Corporate crises are on the upswing. A faster-paced R&D cycle, improved but riskier technology, 24-hour news… the list of triggers…
LB100 case study: Travers Smith Legal Business You can always rely on Travers Smith for revenue growth; the City independent has posted its ninth consecutive year of…
LB100 case study: Shepherd and Wedderburn Legal Business Scotland’s third-largest firm by revenue, Shepherd and Wedderburn, had largely been thought to have fallen behind Brodies and Burness Paull…
The LB interview: Gowling WLG Hamish McNicol LB: What’s been happening in the two years since the Canada tie-up? David Fennell (DF), chief executive: One of the…
LB100 case study: Hill Dickinson Legal Business Things have gone from bad to worse at insurance and shipping specialist Hill Dickinson, as the firm recorded a second…
LB100 shrugs off Brexit fears as fees hit £24bn but leaders wary of chaotic winter ahead Alex Novarese Framed by mounting unease in the face of bitter Brexit negotiations, an uncertain business outlook and an inconclusive 2017 general…
Mega-deals and convergence stoke M&A but subdued volumes and volatile conditions linger Nathalie Tidman This time last year, a collective sigh of relief from City dealmakers was reverberating around the Square Mile as the…
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…
Summer news in context Legal Business New Law buyout sees EY acquire Riverview Law A sign of things to come? After Lawyers On Demand (LOD) earlier this…
