The new episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now!
Linklaters started off the year with a six-strong team hire from Shearman & Sterling in New York, prompting renewed scrutiny of its efforts to date in the US.
But with many believing Linklaters to have fallen behind its magic circle peers – in terms of US growth – plus a stream of senior partner losses in London, is Linklaters losing its sparkle?
In this episode, The Lawyer editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith are joined by director of insight Matt Byrne and deputy editor (City) Rachel Moloney to discuss what’s going wrong at the magic circle firm. Is it justified, or is this a whole fuss over nothing?
An insightful discussion which, for anyone who hadn’t noticed, lays bare just how profoundly the running order of the UK’s Big Law elite has changed in the past 10 years. Entertaining too – there was even a poem!