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…
Dissent: Why the in-house triumph over law firms may prove short-lived Legal Business Scott Gibson and Kristi Edwards argue that GCs have secured a short-term advantage over their external advisers at the risk…
Guest post: Topline heroin – how global law became addicted to the wrong measure of success Legal Business One lens through which to view a large part of the corpus of business and management literature is that of…
Comment: The Asian century maybe but not the Asian decade for the Global 100 Legal Business The market for the world’s largest law firms remains as reliably turbulent as ever. As this month’s edition of Legal…
Comment: Weil Gotshal and the narrative of the New Normal Legal Business Whatever the business case for announcing significant down-sizing, there is no doubt that in the field of modern communications Weil…
Global 100: The Word from the World Legal Business The dominance of US firms; the challenges in Asia; the strategic dilemmas – leaders from the world’s elite law firms…
Comment: In defence of big – the maths are favouring two + two Alex Novarese How many times do you hear lawyers roll out the line about mergers having to be two-plus-two-makes-five? True in many…
In defence of big – the maths are favouring two + two Alex Novarese How many times do you hear lawyers roll out the line about mergers having to be two-plus-two-makes-five? True in many…
Don’t push your luck with partnership Legal Business Do law firms take partnership for granted? They really shouldn’t as the model has served them so well. Just consider…
The Last Word – litigation boutiques Legal Business With the continued success of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and the rise of the litigation boutique, we ask leading…
Cobbetts gets burned but that’s business Pritchard There’s nothing like a bit of schadenfreude when matters go awry and the collapse of Cobbetts as an independent entity…
Converging in on an end game for Global London Alex Novarese Remember convergence? In the 1990s’ tech boom the concept was all the rage. It was the simple idea that rapidly-advancing…
Disputes revival has huge implications for City law Pritchard A few years ago – during what in retrospect turned out to be a boom – you knew where you…
Twenty years on and the numbers still add up Legal Business In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected US president; the Maastricht Treaty was signed and Legal Business published the financial data…
