Brexit: a pragmatic position for the worried managing partner Legal Business Theresa May’s claim from the distant history of July that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ has already become famous for answering nothing…
Comment: LB100 firms forced to make own luck as tough times continue Legal Business The headline isn’t great, but it’s not bad either. Judging our annual Legal Business 100 (LB100) results, the industry has…
Brexit: a pragmatic position for the worried managing partner Legal Business Theresa May’s claim from the distant history of July that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ has already become famous for answering nothing…
LB100 firms forced to make own luck as tough times continue Legal Business The headline isn’t great, but it’s not bad either. Judging our annual Legal Business 100 (LB100) results, the industry has…
The Last Word – Place your bets Legal Business ‘People want to be in a firm that is winning better work and achieving better results. There’s been a shift…
Comment: Global 100 – It’s hard going all over Legal Business The headline numbers from this year’s Global 100 report do not make upbeat reading, even before the Brexit effect and…
Guest post: The new justice secretary – does it matter that she’s not a lawyer? Legal Business So, as anticipated, our new prime minister has favoured punishing disloyalty over rewarding competence and sent Michael Gove and his…
Comment: After the Brexit vote you can kiss the UK’s stability premium goodbye Legal Business The dust has yet to settle, indeed the horizon in post-referendum Britain is heavy with smoke and particles of an…
Global 100: It’s hard going all over Legal Business The headline numbers from this year’s Global 100 report do not make upbeat reading, even before the Brexit effect and…
The Last Word – Brexit Legal Business ‘The idea that regulation is all from Brussels and the UK is deregulatory is a fantasy. That is just rubbish.’…
Guest post: Don’t abuse the Brexit litigants – their action shows we live in a free country Legal Business The law firm Mishcon de Reya is bringing an action to force the Prime Minister, whoever she (or just conceivably…
Comment: The lexicon of inefficiency – in-house counsel’s artisan improvisation is out of date Legal Business It is not easy to be an in-house lawyer. Thank goodness, however, because if it was why on earth would…
Comment: GCs are just like private practice, so ‘Trust the lawyers’ won’t cut it for them either Legal Business Are you a Capitulator? A Coaster? A Champion? Comfortably Numb perhaps? To an in-house profession used to having its qualities…
Guest post: The referendum now poses a serious threat to Parliamentary Sovereignty Legal Business Forget about the online petition. We do not have government by petition, particularly not when we don’t know how many…
Guest post from Herbert Smith Freehills – Brexit: After the vote Legal Business The ‘in-out’ referendum on the question of the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU) which has dominated the political…
LB’s Brexit take: City law’s globalisation playbook has just been shredded Legal Business Well, there you have it – a textbook example of why referendums, compared to parliamentary sovereignty, are a really bad…
Comment: A slightly updated view from 2015 – ‘Unless you hear trumpets, Brexit doesn’t stack up’ Legal Business Ahead of the 2015 general election, Legal Business assessed the policy pledges of the main parties, including the prospects for…
Guest post: The tax position of out campaign funders Legal Business If you click here you can see a link to the Electoral Commission list of donations to referendum participants arranged…
Comment: Elite indies carve out role as the one-stop shop shuts in Europe Legal Business Much like British voters ahead of this month’s vote on EU membership, City law firms have been shaped in recent…
Comment: Not ‘looming’, the judiciary is already in crisis Legal Business If there was much to celebrate amid the continued rise of London as an international disputes centre at Legal Business’…
