Research reinforces the global value of IFCs Legal Business Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance discusses the role of offshore jurisdictions. International finance centres (IFCs) have for some time known…
Guest post: Partnership structures – separating the geese from the chickens Legal Business Partnership structure is under fire from a sea of self-proclaimed professional service firm management experts. Some, like Mark Brandon, bring a…
Guest post: Making the case to regulate third-party funding – badly Legal Business The US Chamber of Commerce, scarred by the American litigation culture, has long been spreading the word about the pain…
Guest post: WTF is a trusted adviser and how did GCs come to strive for it? Legal Business ‘What’s your ambition son?’ ‘Well dad, I’d like to be a plausible adviser’ ‘Good boy. And then one day you might…
Comment: The Dirty Conversation – hard choices for leading US firms as the Boomers clock out Legal Business With the first wave of the Baby Boom about to turn 70, firms are asking the hard question, earlier and…
Guest post: Luxury lawyering and the Bergdorf effect – getting your price right Legal Business A week or two ago, we were having drinks here in New York with two senior corporate partners at an…
Guest post: Sir John! Sir John! Are we there yet? – lawyerly interventions on Iraq Legal Business One of the absurdities of this year’s ‘silly season’ has been another of Britain’s periodic bouts of Chilcot-bashing. When there’s…
Hacked off with cyber risk? You may be… Legal Business Carter Perry Bailey’s Mark Aizlewood and Simon Thomas highlight the threat to law firms. At the time of writing, news…
Guest post: Big data and the linguistics of law – how to win cases and influence judgments Legal Business With the hue and cry about big data, artificial intelligence and law being accentuated by all the talk around Watson/Ross,…
Guest post: Legal project managers – pioneers or homesteaders? Legal Business The recruiters are scouring the market for project managers (PM) to work in law firms. But whilst firms can agree…
Guest post: Why the fuss over Quindell and Slater & Gordon? Legal Business OK, the headline is clickbait – kind of. There does, of course, need to be an investigation into Quindell’s financial…
Guest post: Can litigation be project managed? The case for clarity Legal Business Litigators live uncertain lives. The current matter could settle or go to trial. Your previous clients may never litigate again.…
Guest post: Tales of an Unhappy Client – The Search for a Smarter Way to Bill Legal Business I knew better and that only makes this worse. Recently, I needed a lawyer to review an agreement. There was…
Guest post: Who’s afraid of IBM Watson? Machine learning and the future of law Legal Business Recently in New York, Adam Smith Esq had the opportunity to invite a couple of dozen law firms to ‘An…
Guest post: Enforcing a patent is an abuse of process, except where it isn’t Legal Business Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment (16 July) in Case C-170/13 Huawei…
Guest post: Solicitors are lawyers too, Mr Gove – what the Lord Chancellor needs to remember Legal Business Michael Gove’s performance before the justice select committee on Wednesday was a skilful one. Thoughtful, reasonable, non-dogmatic – two months…
Guest post: The innovation perspective – get the right end of the telescope Legal Business Innovation is a word much bandied around in the law without always a clear idea of what it means. Many…
The ABS triangle – regulators, consumers and investors Legal Business Baker Tilly’s George Bull analyses the changing market. The recent initial public offering (IPO) of full-service English law firm Gateley…
Momentous decisions: seeking the court’s blessing Legal Business Post-Cardigan analysis by 5 Stone Buildings’ Hugh Cumber The recent decision of the English Court of Appeal in the Cardigan…
Guest post: Corporate lawyers under the microscope – the ‘more for less’ delusion and City firms as risk canaries Legal Business Last week I attended a Symposium on Corporate Lawyers organised by Steven Vaughan and his colleagues at the Centre for…
