The Last Word – Business Confidence Legal Business As global and domestic firms look to end the 2013/14 financial year on a high, we ask senior management figures…
Guest comment: That legal big bang – still waiting for the Dyson moment Legal Business We are now a little over two years since the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) began accepting applications from would-be alternative…
Comment: The battle for talent and other phoney wars Louise Ashley Since McKinsey & Co first coined the term in 1997, the ‘war for talent’ has been the focus of a…
Comment: The New New Normal – a changing market beckons for 2014 Legal Business The last three years have drawn to a close heralding another 12 months much like those that went before: depressing.…
Comment: Victories, defeats and growing up – Ashurst faces up to life after Charlie Alex Novarese Here’s one anecdote that didn’t make it into this month’s extended focus on Ashurst. Sometime soon after the firm had pulled…
The Last Word: A year in review Legal Business Aside from bad knitwear and excessive alcohol consumption, Christmas is a time for reflection as well as looking ahead. With…
Comment: Almost meeting minds – a select band of CIOs and MPs plot a big, big breakthrough Mark McAteer During the original dot-com boom, there was a brief period – oh so brief – when legal technologists and managing…
Comment: Forget Dewey – in Wall Street star power is greater than ever Legal Business I flew into Manhattan to The New Yorker chronicling the death of Big Law with a pacey dissection of the…
Forget Dewey – in Wall Street star power is greater than ever Legal Business I flew into Manhattan to The New Yorker chronicling the death of Big Law with a pacey dissection of the…
Almost meeting minds – a select band of CIOs and MPs plot a big, big breakthrough Legal Business During the original dot-com boom, there was a brief period – oh so brief – when legal technologists and managing…
The Last Word: India Legal Business With a slowing economy and the political landscape unsettled, we ask leading international partners with noted Indian practices for their…
Comment: More for more – growing pains and questions as in-house comes of age Legal Business Confident. That’s the mood as Legal Business conducts its second annual poll of in-house counsel. For all the talk of…
Comment: The social contract – what is the law firm but the people? Legal Business The market for legal services will never be the same again. Mergers, alternative business structures, multi-disciplinary practices, law firm failures, onshoring, offshoring and the continual…
Comment: The mindset for 21st century law – be optimistic and afraid and you’ll do fine Legal Business A law firm pumps out marketing bumpf about how awesome it is and it is received – with ample justification…
Comment: The air of unreality – can the big deal deliver for Ashurst? Alex Novarese ‘Historically, what killed Ashurst’s mergers has been apathy. Latham, Fried Frank, Clifford Chance – people were apathetic.’ So recalls one…
The air of unreality – can the big deal deliver for Ashurst? Legal Business ‘Historically, what killed Ashurst’s mergers has been apathy. Latham, Fried Frank, Clifford Chance – people were apathetic.’ So recalls one…
The in-house survey: The Last Word Legal Business Canvassed for our annual in-house survey, general counsel at some of the UK’s leading companies give their perspective on risk,…
Comment: Why the in-house triumph over law firms may prove short-lived Legal Business In the decade prior to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an excess of work masked the corrosive effect to law…
Comment: The age of turbulence has only just begun for the UK’s top 100 firms Alex Novarese Respectable, yes, but 2012/13 was a tough year, even by the post-Lehman standards law firm leaders have become accustomed to.…
Comment: If the mid-tier’s days are numbered why do they keep doing so well? Alex Novarese We’ve had five years of unforgiving conditions for law firms, everyone agrees. And in many respects that squeeze has had…
