As Top 10’s revenue doubles in a decade, consolidation is driving growth at firms outside magic circle Collective revenue at the UK 200 Top 10 has more than doubled in a decade despite the biggest economic slump in 100 years. Turnover for the Top 10, excluding the ever-secretive Slaughter and May, hit a total £10.643bn […]
UK firms have focused this year’s partner promotions on home, but which cities and practice areas dominate investment? The pattern of partner promotions at national firms over the past three years signals a cooling of the love affair with overseas growth, as they turn their attention to home. The overall geographic split for appointments between […]
Showing admirable innovation and imagination, our shortlisters are guiding lights on the long road to law firm efficiency In association with On 22 October The Lawyer Management Awards, in association with Thomson Reuters, will celebrate excellence across the UK legal market’s business services departments. And today we can reveal the shortlist, which covers the gamut […]
‘Disruptive innovation’ has quickly become a management-speak staple, but it does not stand up to scrutiny as a worthwhile analysis of the legal world Although I have never met Professor Jill Lepore, it is my most fervent hope never to get on her wrong side. An historian with little time for shoddy interpretation, she recently […]
Move of the week Reed Smith has hired technology partner Angus Finnegan. Finnegan joins the London media and technology practice from Osborne Clarke , where he was head of the telecoms sector group. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the technology and telecoms industries. UK London Mark Poulton has been […]
He has a dream job at a luxury travel brand but prefers to work from his London desk – meet Michael Ellis, group general counsel at Abercrombie & Kent It looks like a lawyer’s fantasy job – being part of the senior team at a luxury travel business. It holds the prospect of glamorous first-class […]
Active financial management is vital, but with firms looking more closely at the process of debt and fee collection, the personal touch still counts To what extent is good financial management in law firms a cultural issue and informed by the organisation’s structure? John Raimbach, finance director, Goodman Derrick: Blaming ‘cultural issues’ for good or […]
The University of Kent’s well-publicised landmark work for an asylum-seeker could lay the foundations for a shift in thinking in immigration cases Last month’s The Lawyer Awards saw the University of Kent’s Law Clinic pick up the gong for Ethical Initiative of the Year for engineering an asylum precedent in a landmark immigration case. The […]
Back in the day, BYOB had a special ring to university students. There was a house party going down and all were welcome, provided they brought their own booze. Now global big business has only gone and sullied those fond memories by creating another similar initialism, but one that has a lot less romance once […]
What do you do when you fail to win a panel place for reasons you think are “inexplicable”? Sue? Yes, if you are DWF. As you might have seen earlier this week, the firm has launched a High Court battle with the Government’s Insolvency Service (IS), part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills […]
Take a look at the most-read stories on TheLawyer.com this week and share your views The future shape of the legal market is a topic that always causes hot debate and this week was no different. Readers of TheLawyer.com were keen to air their views on a forthright opinion from commentator Mark Brandon about the […]
Fieldfisher has added a trio of partners to its Parisian office, bulking up its competition, corporate and tax practices. Two of the three hail from French firm UGGC Avocats – tax partner Antoine Gabizon and corporate partner Pascal Squercioni. Gabizon, who specialises in corporate tax, has been at UGGC since being admitted to the Paris […]