Guest post: How to reduce head count without making new enemies Legal Business With the litigation market soft and the deal market at least momentarily out of breath, there may be more lawyers…
Guest post: The case for legal advice privilege is not as strong as the profession wants it to be Legal Business Lord Neuberger (pictured), in a recent short speech, provides some interesting insights in to the problematic world of legal advice…
Guest post: How Boris Johnson is wrong on parliamentary sovereignty Legal Business Since I wrote about David Cameron’s ‘sovereignty plan’, it seems to have been forgotten. It’s clear the idea was aimed…
INVESTIGATIONS: Successfully navigating challenging international regulations Legal Business With the growth of enforcement activity worldwide, companies are being forced to create or adapt their internal structures and incorporate…
Guest post: Why the SRA’s education reforms inhibit innovation Legal Business This response to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) Consultation on training tomorrow’s solicitors is a personal one. I am afraid…
Guest post: Slater and Gordon’s woes have nothing to do with being an ABS Legal Business It is somewhat appropriate that Slater and Gordon (S&G) sponsors England cricket captain Alastair Cook (pictured), no stranger himself to…
Guest post: Brexit analysis – Why the real danger to Parliamentary sovereignty isn’t Europe Legal Business As we await David Cameron’s sovereignty plan this week, it might help to explain what we mean by ‘Parliamentary sovereignty’.
Guest post: How law firms benefit when laterals don’t fit in Legal Business Much has been written recently about the need for law firms to integrate laterals more effectively. One need only search…
Guest post: Legal lobby turf wars – what is the Law Society doing for you? Legal Business It is not a massive exaggeration to say that the Law Society will be fighting for its existence in the…
Guest post: The great tax debate – towards business accountability Legal Business This is the third in a series of pieces exploring what the Labour Centre might offer to the electorate. The…
Guest post: Do companies have a duty to avoid taxes? Legal Business Here’s a transaction that did the rounds some years ago. If I wanted some foreign exchange in the future I…
Guest post: Knowing when to reinvent – the Aetna plan for business health Legal Business There’s a fascinating article in the December issue of the Harvard Business Review that ought to be required reading for the…
Guest post: How to run up a $1.6bn legal bill – the Nortel bankruptcy should be a wake-up call for the insolvency industry Legal Business What is a fair and equitable distribution of $7.3bn of global bankruptcy assets between multinational creditors where no legal mechanism…
Guest post: Law land annual reports -has the partnership model been outgrown? Legal Business With the release last week of the Annual Report from Georgetown Law’s Center for the Study of the Legal Profession,…
Guest post: What’s your theory of the business? Legal Business Year-end is often seen, understandably if somewhat arbitrarily, as a time for reflection. Actually, in my book there’s never a…
Guest post: Law firms going public – one way to stop a Dewey-style run on the ‘bank’? Legal Business It has become commonplace – I have bowed to convention and endorsed the notion myself – to observe that law…
Comment: UK’s fintech boom is set to dazzle but advisers are still struggling to respond Legal Business Unless you have been too busy reconciling your cheque book stubs against your monthly paper bank statements, you may have…
Guest post: The strange, slow death of the criminal courts charge Legal Business The criminal courts charge is, or was, one of the less well thought-through criminal justice reforms of recent years. Since…
Swaps: signs of a shift? Legal Business 3 Verulam Buildings’ Gregory Mitchell QC and Alexia Knight on what lies ahead for banks Banks have had a bruising…
Guest post: Artificial intelligence – the robots are/are not coming Legal Business IBM Watson. Google’s driverless cars. Uncanny recommendations from Amazon, Siri, and Google Now. Not to mention the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book…
