Finance view: The night of the living wills – bank resolution work offers opportunity for FinReg counsel Legal Business Michael West reports on the introduction of bank resolution protocols Financial regulatory lawyers returned from their holidays this year to…
Bespoke, mobile and plugged in – the tech tools clients and staff will demand Guest Blog CMS’s Duncan Weston argues that a new attitude to technology will be essential for the best law firms Against a…
Guest post: Partnership structures – separating the geese from the chickens Legal Business Partnership structure is under fire from a sea of self-proclaimed professional service firm management experts. Some, like Mark Brandon, bring a…
Guest post: Making the case to regulate third-party funding – badly Legal Business The US Chamber of Commerce, scarred by the American litigation culture, has long been spreading the word about the pain…
The finance view: Bigger, simpler, cheaper? How to position the modern securitisation counsel Legal Business Securitisation lawyers have been hard pressed since the financial crisis, diversifying their practices and often even ditching the S word.
Guest Post: It’s all in the Game: Immigration Lawyers vs the High Court? Richard Moorhead I have on a few occasions blogged on the High Court’s (and indeed the now Lord Chief Justice’s) exasperation, justified…
Guest post: WTF is a trusted adviser and how did GCs come to strive for it? Legal Business ‘What’s your ambition son?’ ‘Well dad, I’d like to be a plausible adviser’ ‘Good boy. And then one day you might…
Comment: The Dirty Conversation – hard choices for leading US firms as the Boomers clock out Legal Business With the first wave of the Baby Boom about to turn 70, firms are asking the hard question, earlier and…
Comment: Leadership by soundbite is fuelling a well-being crisis for in-house counsel Legal Business As a consultant spending most of my professional time working with general counsel (GCs), so concerned have I become at…
Comment: What can you be sure of as the LB100 goes down the rabbit hole? Legal Business It’s common in the legal industry to talk about unprecedented change but there are many rules of professional gravity unchanged…
Forget the trusted adviser – the sacred cows of the modern GC Legal Business As an opinionated and jaded observer of the legal industry, it’s rare I read commentary so on point that it…
NYLon – if you can make it there… Legal Business If there is one big trend in the analysis of Legal Business in recent years it is the encroaching existential…
What can you be sure of as the LB100 goes down the rabbit hole? Alex Novarese It’s common in the legal industry to talk about unprecedented change but there are many rules of professional gravity unchanged…
The Last Word: Through the looking glass Legal Business From a successful UK focus to consolidation, LB100 management figures give their reflections on the market So far so good…
The Finance View: Bigger, simpler, cheaper? How to position the modern securitisation counsel Legal Business Michael West assesses the impact of the ongoing rehabilitation of structured finance Securitisation lawyers have been hard pressed since the…
The wellness crisis for in-house counsel – you must sort it out Legal Business Paul Gilbert argues that general counsel’s failure to act as a team has heaped a rising burden on stressed in-house…
Beating ‘Friday afternoon’ fraud Legal Business Sophisticated criminals are increasingly targeting firms of solicitors with so-called ‘Friday afternoon’ frauds. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) reported in…
Guest post: The truth about corporate welfare Guest Blog Students of the relationship between business and society will, of late, have encountered a new discourse, that around corporate welfare.
Guest post: Can litigation be project managed? The case for clarity Legal Business Litigators live uncertain lives. The current matter could settle or go to trial. Your previous clients may never litigate again.…
Guest post: Who’s afraid of IBM Watson? Machine learning and the future of law Legal Business Recently in New York, Adam Smith Esq had the opportunity to invite a couple of dozen law firms to ‘An…
