Today sees the publication of The Lawyer UK 200 Annual Report 2013, the culmination of some six months’ data collection, interviews and research into the financial health of the UK’s largest law firms. To purchase access to the full report visit www.thelawyer.com/uk200 or contact Daniela Badcock on +44 (0) 207 970 4582 The headline data […]
Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Olswang are among the firms to have missed out on Legal & General (L&G) panel places after the insurer cut its advisor roster from 19 to five, it has emerged. Just Clifford Chance, Eversheds, Pinsent Masons, Slaughter and May and Macfarlanes secured panel spots at the life insurer, which did not run […]
Eversheds has opened a base in Erbil in an expansion of the firm’s Iraq presence following its merger with Middle East law consortium KSLG in 2011. A team had been serving the increasing demand in semi-autonomous Kurdistan from Eversheds’ Baghdad office, which was acquired alongside Amman, Dubai and Riyadh in the KSLG deal (May 25 […]
Ashurst real estate partner Matthew Hooton has quit the firm, making him the second partner to leave the practice in as many weeks. Hooton is expected to leave the firm to join Simmons & Simmons’ real estate practice in coming months. His exit follows that of partner Anthony Burnett-Scott, who is joining Macfarlane’s commercial real […]
A minority of international firms saw UK revenue fall as global platforms kicked in. The majority of this year’s top 30 international firms in the UK table saw a return on the investments they made in the past three to five years. Only seven firms on the list saw their UK revenue drop last year, a […]
It’s not only law firms being organised on more businesslike lines. Leading sets are seeing the rise of ‘superclerk’ top executives. The impact of the seismic changes shaking up the legal market across the UK and filling the pages of The Lawyer UK 200 Annual Report 2013 is not limited to solicitors or law firms. […]
Uniquely, the UK 200 includes independent editorial on every firm in the table. Here is a selection of this year’s analyses To purchase access to the full report visit www.thelawyer.com/uk200 or contact Daniela Badcock on +44 (0) 207 970 4582 Allen & Overy Allen & Overy (A&O) had a muted 2012/13, with turnover inching up […]
To purchase access to the full report visit www.thelawyer.com/uk200 or contact Daniela Badcock on +44 (0) 207 970 4582 Who do you see in the bathroom mirror each morning? A lawyer? A businessperson? Both? The idea that law firms need to ensure that they operate in a financially sustainable way is hardly a new one. The […]
The Lawyer published a bumper edition including an executive summary of The Lawyer UK 200 Annual Report 2013 in association with KPMG, in which we reveal the financial rankings for the top 200 law firms in the UK, the top 30 international firms and the top 30 barristers’ chambers. To purchase access to the full […]
Grand old Paris firm takes radical action to reboot dwindling partner line-up Sometimes the bitten turns biter. More than any other firm in Paris, Gide Loyrette Nouel has suffered from high-level departures. In March a trio of corporate partners – Antoine Bonnasse, Youssef Djehane and Jean-Emmanuel Skovron – left to launch boutique BDGS. The same […]
Are Manches’ partners celebrating merger more than Penningtons’? Penningtons Manches had its first partner conference last Friday (18 October), days after Penningtons bought Manches in a surprise pre-pack deal. From the outside it’s hard to imagine what went on in that conference room – was it the kind of event that warranted a post-couscous hand […]
Our revenue per lawyer figures show that there’s high-value work in niche firms, but are this metric’s days numbered? Unlike the profit per equity partner (PEP) ranking, The Lawyer’s revenue per lawyer (RPL) table covers all the 200 firms in our study. But the question is – how long will RPL continue as a workable […]