Like many companies, Royal Mail’s in-house team must deal with the competing demands of costs challenges and increased demand for legal advice from the business. How might legal technology drive efficiency? This case study examines Royal Mail’s project to automate as much legal workflow as possible and empower the business people to do more for […]
Employment litigation has dwindled in the past three years. A quarterly average of 52 employment cases reached judgment in the EAT and the Court of Appeal (CoA) in the first three quarters of 2017, according to The Lawyer’s Q3 2017 Litigation Tracker report.
We can broadly divide the past 30 years of the UK legal sector into three phases: innocence and enthusiasm; expansion and over-reach; and chastened realism.
A&O, Dentons, Norton Rose – energetic leadership and bold ambition characterise the law firms that have become global players in recent years
The Lawyer’s longest-serving employee is Tulkinghorn, who has been writing his diary column – on and off – since 1994. His first ever column, on 24 May that year, included a question of sexual deviancy and the first in a long-running series, legal lookalike, that continues to this day. 1997: Tulkinghorn soon emerged as […]
When it comes to US firms making that tricky move into the City market, history teaches us that ‘be bold but stay focused’ is the key
General counsel have higher status and are more collaborative than ever before. And there are more women in the top jobs too
Lessons must be learned from the stories of the most dramatic law firm collapses of recent years
As The Lawyer turns 30 years old, here are some of our most memorable front pages since our launch in 1987.
Over the summer The Lawyer surveyed the top offshore firms about their litigation practices, strategy, and use of technology. What emerged most clearly is that litigation and general contentious work is big business for offshore firms. To take just a handful of examples, litigation represents around half the turnover at Collas Crill and Campbells, while at Appleby, Bedell Cristin and Harneys it accounts for between a quarter and a third of total billings.
The lean years barely lasted. The financial crisis, beginning with the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 and then Bear Stearns and Lehman the following year, spooked the legal profession.
What has been the effect of alternative legal services and what should we expect in the next decade?