Guest post: The Path to a High Achieving Culture – it turns out that money isn’t the driver Legal Business In a guest post, Aric Press, partner at the legal consultancy Bernero & Press and former editor-in-chief of The American…
Guest post: ‘More mystery and misinformation’ – welcome to a world without the AmLaw 100 Legal Business We’re now well into the Am Law 100 season. My former colleagues at The American Lawyer have published their biggest…
Guest post: Law firm mergers – be clear if it’s for your balance sheet or your clients or it won’t go well Legal Business The industry standard in tracking US law firm mergers, Altman Weil’s Mergerline, has had this to say about activity in…
Team moves – Alec Harvey and Richard Nicolle discuss the risks Legal Business Team moves in London’s legal market are on the rise, particularly among US law firms establishing new offices or practice…
Guest post: Warning signs – Who’s to blame when commoditised legal services go wrong? Legal Business The recent Court of Appeal decision in Proctor v Raleys [2015] EWCA Civ 400 raises the interesting question as to…
Guest post: HMRC – Taking stock and keeping public confidence Legal Business Back in February Labour announced that it would, if it took power, begin an ‘immediate and independent review into the…
Guest post: An EU referendum Bill – what would it entail? Legal Business It is reported that the government’s EU Referendum Bill will be published the day after the Queen’s Speech – see,…
Guest post: Why ‘Big Ideas’ are often wrong and the fallacies of legal myths Legal Business Why do ‘big ideas’ or ‘monolithic ideas’ become so accepted when under analysis and the test of time they so…
Guest post: Why the right is losing the argument on tax – and why it matters to all of us Legal Business Two weeks ago, Labour pledged to tax as income the performance fees (known as the ‘carried interest’) paid to certain…
Guest post: The Conservative Party manifesto and human rights Legal Business The Conservative Party manifesto states that the terms of British EU membership will be renegotiated and an in/out referendum held.…
Guest post: Ed can enter No. 10 without Nicola’s keys Legal Business This election looks a close-run thing – very close run indeed. As I write, polls and forecasts suggest strongly that…
Guest post: Legal Risk Study – how in-house lawyers manage (or don’t) ethics and risk Legal Business Readers who have not seen this already might be interested in the executive report from a study I am leading…
Guest post: A very brief glance at the Labour Party Manifesto Legal Business Here are some of the ‘justice highlights’ in the Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 General Election. The full manifesto…
The use of a Cyprus International Trust (CIT) as a business vehicle Legal Business Andri Tsangarou and Andrianna Solomonides of Kinanis LLC discuss a new use for the CIT. The economic and business instability…
Why are there no lawyer-backed MDPs? Legal Business With the rise of multi-disciplinary practices (MDPs) receiving daily comment in the professional news, this is certainly a question worth…
Guest post: Letter from Sao Paulo – How the Brazilian legal market is shaping up Legal Business Just back from a week of meetings with law firms in Sao Paulo, and a few impressions are worth reporting. First…
Guest blog: Human Rights and the Battlefield Legal Business Policy Exchange has produced an interesting report – Clearing the fog of war: saving our armed forces from defeat by…
Guest post: Parliament dissolved – the fight for power at Westminster commences Legal Business On 30th March, Parliament was dissolved. The coalition government remains in place pending the outcome of the General Election on…
Guest post: Behaving like an ass is a short term play – the merits of being decent Legal Business ‘Taking advantage’ is a phrase I hear a lot when lawyers discuss their work. I think it is linked to…
Guest post: Pricing Power… and how to convert it into profit Legal Business The growth of professionals in Law Land with the word ‘pricing’ in their title has been explosive over the past…
