The Lawyer Awards: Firm of the Year shortlist 2018 shows New Law has arrived
Eight names are on the list for the final and biggest award of the night – which firm will claim victory?
Top 50 US law firms in London: who dominates the $5bn market
The Lawyer has tracked the financial performance of the 50 largest US firms in the UK, including lateral hires and investment priorities
The Lawyer Awards 2018: the litigation team of the year finalists
Which teams are battling it out for the coveted litigation prize at this year’s The Lawyer Awards?
GDPR: The challenges facing the tech market
The GDPR has created an avalanche of work for lawyers, and some big headaches for clients
Because they’re worth it: DWF’s valuation and the Knowles effect
Who better to deliver DWF’s IPO narrative than a man once dubbed the Tigger of law firm management?
Six things to consider if you want to float your law firm
Nothing comes for free – before going for the IPO firms need to understand six key points.
Freshfields lockstep: the war for talent gets teeth
This is the first fissure revealing the implications for those of us who are not superstars; we’re not worth as much as we thought we were.
KPI: Make kindness a performance indicator
Should kindness be a significant measure of success for all leaders and all teams? asks LBC’s Paul Gilbert
Transatlantic law firm mergers a decade on: happy ever after?
A cohort of UK firms have entered into US mergers over the years, but did they lose their souls as well as their names?
The awkward question of succession at Bird & Bird
Critics insist Bird & Bird is a dictatorship, with CEO David Kerr ensconced at the top. It could make discussing succession a bit tricky
The magic circle’s succession problem
The day of the corporate big beast is over. What can the magic circle do to nurture its next crop of superstars?
A lost generation: Why firms are failing their older lawyers
Firms are missing out on the benefits of smoothing the path to retirement for their partners. But partners could also help themselves by being better prepared
Revealed: The scale of sexual harassment in law
The profession has a problem
Macfarlanes office move: 35 years in the making
With the lease on Norwich Street running out, about five years ago Macfarlanes began the process of looking for new options.
Forget the crowdsourcing gimmicks, conversations are a smarter way to tweak law firm culture
Reverse mentoring is taking hold at Linklaters and A&O, and it’s being championed by the firms’ most senior partners.
Irwin Mitchell and Pump Court rule in the discreet world of private client
Private client work is by definition discreet, but The Lawyer’s unique Litigation Tracker data highlights the stars
Lawyers shouldn’t play safe, they should take the lead
What does the term “progressive” mean to in-house lawyers? GCs explain how they build their in-house legal teams.
How tech will shape the future of real estate lawyers
Automated working will change the way law firms are staffed. We asked the world’s top real estate practices about the shape of things to come.
Moscow gold: For City lawyers, the oligarch era is over
The changing political environment is making life harder for the London lawyers servicing Russia’s super-rich.
Clifford Chance senior partner elections: The early front-runners revealed
The next Clifford Chance senior partner elections are set to take place in October 2018. Will the next leader be cut from the same cloth as previous ones – that is, London-based, a banking and finance partner, and a man?
Making money out of laterals, the Greenberg way
Greenberg Traurig picked up some top real estate talent when KWM collapsed. But how has it integrated its new stars into the firm?
The top 30 offshore law firms 2018: Troubles in paradise
After a year with two major negative news stories, how have the top 30 offshore law firms fared?
Tech incubator schemes: too many start-ups, not enough ideas
The massive investment from big organisations into legal tech startups is just the beginning. They have to prove it’s worth it, Matilda Munro reports.
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Making partner – should firms pick up the pace to promotion?
As the road to partnership gets longer, some law firms are creating alternative career pathways to manage talent retention.
In the shadow of Slaughter and May: how is Luminance winning clients?
Last week, South African firm Webber Wentzel announced that it was partnering with AI platform Luminance in order to automate its M&A document review. Herein lie two households, both alike in dignity: Webber Wentzel is in alliance with Linklaters, while one of Linklaters’ biggest corporate rivals, Slaughter and May, has a 5 per cent stake […]