Last year, The Lawyer started analysing practice area efficiency among the biggest UK and US law firms and their teams in the UK. With the help of Practice Analysis, The Lawyer once again highlights the practice area efficiency at firms in the UK. This year we kick off our efficiency analysis by delving deeper into […]
Using metrics such as RPL, RPP and associate leverage, The Lawyer’s new Practice Analysis service highlights the most – and least – efficient firms across the UK’s disputes teams.
The makeup of the London legal market is as diverse as the clients and industries it serves, featuring an array of firms across the spectrum in terms of size, clientele and revenue. For every magic circle firm, the legal market of the City provides a rich hunting ground for smaller firms that generate a fraction […]
How does the magic circle compare when assessing measures of efficiency such as revenue per lawyer, revenue per partner, associate leverage and churn rate? The Lawyer’s new Practice Analysis service delves deeper.
In July, The Lawyer started its analysis of the third group in its Practice Analysis offering – real estate. The report for July looks at the UK real estate practices of more than 180 firms, ranks them by the size of their real estate team and provides important efficiency measures such as revenue per lawyer […]
The Lawyer asked banking and finance lawyers and corporate lawyers for their views, with their responses highlighting stark differences in sentiment between the two groups.
During the first quarter of 2023, The Lawyer launched Practice Analysis, providing insights into banking and finance practices at over 180 private practice law firms in the UK. Practice Analysis provides critical insights into team sizes and spread by PQE, hiring activity and profitability. With the help of the Practice Analysis service, this article identifies […]
In the second quarter of the year, The Lawyer’s Practice Analysis service analysed the UK corporate practices of 230 US and UK firms. The first two data tools provide critical data and insight on, and analysis of, team sizes and spread, as well as hiring activity at the firms and trends in the recruitment market […]
Partners taking home at least £1m a year will receive huge tax cuts under the UK Government’s latest mini-budget – we’ve calculated how much. The Government is planning to abolish the additional 45 per cent tax rate, the top level of income tax which applied only to those earning over £150,000. The change, which will […]
Defamation and privacy law looks very different now than it did ten years ago. Litigation was employed nervously following the Defamation Act’s commencement in 2014. Case law around the Defamation Act has now mostly settled, creating a more predictable landscape for litigants. This has been aided by the introduction of a Media & Communications List […]
The challenges facing the retail sector are well known. In what has been an unenviable few years for the industry, retailers have had to tackle internet competition and the decline of the high street, lockdowns and Covid-19-related rules, supply chain issues, Brexit conundrums, staffing challenges, and now inflation and a cost of living crisis. Even […]
The four magic circle firms — Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters — are made up of unquestionably tremendous legal professionals. Their expertise and appearances on the very largest corporate transactions have always caught the eye of the business community, but their litigation practices have suffered from a perception problem. The […]