Guest post: ‘Stockholm syndrome’ in legal services – GCs are captured by their advisers Legal Business A caricature may reveal a truth… ‘Why, if there is all the talk of change, is change so slow?’ One…
Guest post: Where now for legal regulation? – A consensus to change the UK regulatory framework has emerged, but none over direction Legal Business A direct consequence of the government’s decision in May not to make any major changes to the regulatory framework for…
Guest post: The Age of Anxiety – In London, in New York, it’s still hard out there Legal Business We’re just back from a week in London – coincidentally smack in the middle of the UK firms’ earnings-release season…
Guest post: A profession not at ease with itself or the world? The Bar’s working life survey Legal Business I took a little time to browse the Bar’s working life survey. It’s a large survey. Although it’s not immediately…
Guest post: DRIP – a torrent of mass surveillance seems more likely Legal Business Last week, the Home Secretary announced that, with all party agreement, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill – (DRIP…
Guest post: Dominic Grieve as Attorney General, 2010-2014 Legal Business The first time I ran into Dominic Grieve, he made a fool of the Labour shadow justice minister, Paul Boateng.…
Guest post: A few thoughts on the Butler Sloss controversy Legal Business Lady Butler Sloss, a former and eminent senior judge, with significant experience through a child abuse inquiry (Cleveland) of matters…
Guest post: Light at the end of the tunnel for the SFO and a review of the last 12 months from David Green QC Legal Business Introducing the annual report for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the last financial year David Green, CB QC, director of…
Litigation finance for trustees Legal Business Nick Rowles-Davies of Burford Capital talks facilitating recovery while mitigating risk Litigation is an ever-present issue to trustees, whether bringing…
Guest post: public access to the Bar – more sideshow than shifting paradigms Legal Business Recent headlines seem to suggest that the Bar is gearing up to ‘bypass’ solicitors and embark upon an all-out war with…
Guest post: Law schools kickstart the greed process – the damage of using money to motivate lawyers Legal Business One of the interesting sub-plots of the Big Law vs New Law debate is the way in which workers (partners…
Guest post: The hollow middle since 2008 Legal Business I call it the hollow middle, but Knowledge@Wharton prefers ‘disappearing middle.’ Here’s what, writing in their pages, the CEO of…
Guest post: Good news for the SFO in Innospec – jury convicts former CEO and sales director Legal Business Dennis Kerrison and Miltiades Papachristos were found guilty [on Wednesday 18 June] at Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to commit…
Guest post: Is sustainability improving corporate and professional ethics? Legal Business The ethical dimensions of in-house practice are a significant source of academic and practical interest, as the recent investigation of…
Guest Post: Our battle for market share (why growth is not dead) Legal Business It has become bromidic to observe that we’ve moved from a linear growth market, ever up and to the right,…
Guest post: Pfizer’s placebo promises (why AstraZeneca may have been right to reject the ‘final’ takeover bid from Pfizer) Legal Business In front of the Commons Business committee last week, Ian Read, chairman and chief executive of Pfizer, made two points…
Guest post: Pfizer’s bid for AstraZeneca – what can the government do? Legal Business On April 28, Pfizer announced a possible offer to buy AstraZeneca, presumably having thought an announcement was required by rule…
Guest post: Paralysed by uncertainty? Snap out of it Legal Business ‘Never before has our future seemed so shrouded in fog and noise,’ I’ve written, and discussed its paralytic effects on…
Guest post: three leading indicators of success Bruce MacEwen This is a sequel, in a yin-yang fashion, to an earlier guest post, ‘Three leading indicators of failure‘. What might…
Guest post: Boring, boring Irwin Mitchell – there’s more to life than floating Neil Rose It’s not often that I feel sorry for law firm PR people, but I sense that Irwin Mitchell is getting a…
