Guest Post: Three Leading Indicators of Failure Legal Business Can you remember a time when there was so much talk of more BigLaw firm failures? I can’t. Count yourself…
Guest post: Lessons in recruitment from Google Legal Business Loyal readers of Adam Smith, Esq. know that we think there’s much that can be learned for Law Land from other…
Guest post: Notes from the frontline of Grayling Day – ‘The whole system is in revolt’ Legal Business At Friday’s ‘Grayling Day’ demonstration in London, chairman of the Criminal Bar Association Nigel Lithman QC told the audience that…
Guest post: Cooperation. Cooperation. Cooperation. The name of the game if you want a DPA Legal Business ‘Cooperation, cooperation, cooperation’ is the Serious Fraud Office (SFO)’s message to corporates looking to enter into new US-style plea bargains…
Guest Post: Third party funders, out of the shadows Legal Business Third-party funding (TPF) has suddenly become the black sheep of the litigation finance industry. In the wake of the spectacularly…
Guest post – Client retention: give credit where credit’s due Legal Business Winning a new client for the firm—there’s little that can match that for excitement, sense of accomplishment and visible contribution…
Guest post: The New World of Legal Work vs Global Behemoths Legal Business There’s an interesting tension between Sir Nigel Knowles prediction of legal behemoths straddling the globe with investment bankers outriders (or…
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…
Guest Post: See Talent. Liberate it. Legal Business It’s been viewed online nearly seven million times. Sheryl Sandberg calls it one of the most important documents ever to…
Guest post: See Talent. Feed It. Legal Business Turnabout. I recently wrote about how to demoralize, discourage, and disenchant top talent. This is about how to retain that talent.…
Guest post: Where next for the Law Society after no-confidence vote? Legal Business The Law Society, if nothing else, is a decent host and members attending the special general meeting (SGM) on Tuesday…
Guest post: Too close for comfort – Research concludes the Bar Council has ‘undue influence’ over regulation Legal Business The Bar may be collegiate, but are the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) too close? Have you read…
Guest post: My thoughts (as a citizen) on Lord Sumption’s Azlan Shah lecture Legal Business On 20 November, Lord Sumption (Justice of the Supreme Court) delivered the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur…
Guest post: The United States of Innovation – viewed from Wall Street, it could be a whole lot better Legal Business The other night I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the FT’s Innovative Lawyers 2013 US awards ceremony.…
Guest post: Independence matters – banking and big law in the news Richard Moorhead Lawyers and banks are in the news again. Lawrence Tomlinson, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Department for Business, Innovation and…
Guest post: ‘Chasing short term profits is the enemy of long-term success’ – A conversation with Freshfields’ Ted Burke Legal Business I recently had the chance to sit down with Ted Burke, outgoing managing partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. I’ve known…
Guest post: Time to face the dangerous delusion of the entrepreneurial lawyer Legal Business For years, I’ve been hearing law firms describe their cultures as ‘entrepreneurial’ and hardly the slightest attention. Like ‘collegial’ or…
Guest post: Is a return to self-regulation really on the cards? Legal Business Two months ago, I blogged about the Law Society’s surprising submission to the Ministry of Justice’s legal regulation review, which…
Guest post: West Coast, left field and progressive – a conversation with Facebook’s law firm Legal Business One of the more unusual reactions I’ve gotten to my book Growth Is Dead came from Kate Fritz, managing partner of…
Guest post: R (PressBoF) v Culture Secretary: the hearing Legal Business I was in court 68 at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning (30 October) to hear the Press Standards…
