LB100: The Last Word – Market Comment Legal Business From collaboration to rough quarters to restoring market confidence, leaders at Legal Business 100 firms give us their views on…
Guest post: Stop being proactive, stop being commercial, stop being nice Legal Business I made a mistake. It was in 1989. I went in-house and found I was good at my job. It…
Guest post: Change is neither good nor bad: It is Legal Business ‘Call it the Great Recession, the Great Reset, or whatever, the world palpably shook in September 2008 and the repercussions…
Guest post: ‘Stockholm syndrome’ in legal services – GCs are captured by their advisers Legal Business A caricature may reveal a truth… ‘Why, if there is all the talk of change, is change so slow?’ One…
Guest post: Where now for legal regulation? – A consensus to change the UK regulatory framework has emerged, but none over direction Legal Business A direct consequence of the government’s decision in May not to make any major changes to the regulatory framework for…
Comment: Advice for the new managing partner – don’t consult, just do Legal Business Given the amount of time I spend hanging out with managing partners it’s not unusual to be asked by law…
Comment: Global 100 – a little bit of life before Lehman returns. But only a little Legal Business For all the improving signs, glancing at our annual Global 100 report shows headline performance largely comparable with 2013. The…
Comment: ‘Nobody knows anything’ – Goldman is more right than Maister Legal Business As journalists and managing partners hit reporting season the understandable urge rises once more to make sense of the legal…
Beddoe applications – still fit for purpose? Legal Business Ten Old Square’s Eason Rajah QC examines whether Beddoe applications are still relevant or whether they should be brought in…
Advice for the new managing partner: don’t consult, just do Legal Business Given the amount of time I spend hanging out with managing partners it’s not unusual to be asked by law…
Global 100: a little bit of life before Lehman returns. But only a little Legal Business For all the improving signs, glancing at our annual Global 100 report shows headline performance largely comparable with 2013. The…
Guest post: Law schools kickstart the greed process – the damage of using money to motivate lawyers Legal Business One of the interesting sub-plots of the Big Law vs New Law debate is the way in which workers (partners…
Comment: A self-deceiving return to business as usual Legal Business In 2010, Georgetown University, under the direction of Professor Milton Regan, held a conference of academics, practitioners and leading thinkers…
Comment: Partner recruitment – better but still a case of buyer beware Legal Business If the oxymoronic notion of partner recruitment didn’t exist who would invent it? On one level, of course, its emergence…
Partner recruitment: buyer beware Legal Business If the oxymoronic notion of partner recruitment didn’t exist who would invent it? On one level, of course, its emergence…
A bit of hustle, a bit of love – GCs expect attention and pitching from advisers Legal Business In our focus on Nabarro this month the firm comes in for some criticism at the hands of an important…
The last word – strategic recruitment Legal Business From disastrous due diligence to delusions of grandeur, leaders from LB100 firms and senior recruitment specialists give their take on…
Comment: A precarious professionalism – Do City lawyers take ethics for granted? Legal Business The practice of law has flipped from vocation to business. Law firms and individual lawyers are measured explicitly in predominantly…
Guest post: Pfizer’s placebo promises (why AstraZeneca may have been right to reject the ‘final’ takeover bid from Pfizer) Legal Business In front of the Commons Business committee last week, Ian Read, chairman and chief executive of Pfizer, made two points…
Guest post: Sorry tech apostles – law firms do get Twitter (that’s the whole problem) Bruce MacEwen People occasionally ask me if I tweet (I don’t) and what role I think Twitter has in law firm marketing…
