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Macfarlanes after the slump: under the radar or off the map?
What does Macfarlanes stand for these days? Macfarlanes senior partner Charles Martin certainly puts it succinctly: "Our goal is to be a pre-eminent independent City law firm, offering our clients a service that is partner-led and that takes advantage...
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01 | 
Pharmaceuticals: Tailor-made meds
The regulation of all medicinal products is based on risk management. It is an accepted principle that no medicinal product is entirely without risk - the use and regulation of medicines is therefore calibrated on the concept of benefit versus risk; t...
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
Pharmaceuticals: The patent police
The EC's inquiry into the pharmaceutical industry and moves to usher in a region-wide patent court could revolutionise Europe's drug market. Bird & Bird's Gerry Kamstra reports
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
Pharmaceuticals: The game changer
The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rap...
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
In your interest
With the UK Base Rate currently set at 50 basis points (bps) and one year sterling London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) at a historic low of 1.25%, it is unlikely that interest rates can fall much further.
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Partners want junior pay freeze extension
The latest Legal Week Big Question survey has found that many partners believe assistants should either definitely or probably see the 2009 pay freeze introduced at most large law firms extended in 2010. More than a quarter (27%) said they 'very mu...
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
Editor's comment: A drug problem
You only have to glance at an industry going through real structural change to see how hollow are the claims repeatedly made for the 'revolution' hitting the legal services market. Take the drugs business, which is chronicled in this month's in dep...
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Rio outsourcing six months on: Richard Susskind and Leah Cooper discuss the lessons learned
Professor Richard Susskind OBE talks to CPA Global strategy director Leah Cooper about the first six months of Rio Tinto's work with the outsourcing provider.
16 Mar 2010 | 17:04 | 
The word of Susskind is still not heard in corporate land
It appears that private equity lawyers haven't been keeping up with their Richard Susskind, according at least to the angry head of one prominent buyout house. The cause of his irritation is what he claims is foot-dragging and resistance to a five-yea...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
US briefing: Second acts
The 5 November 2009 was a good day for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At a press conference with the US attorney's office in Manhattan, new SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami announced that his agency was bringing civil charges ...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
Editor's comment: Gameplan needed
Law firms don't generally have strategies. This basic point often gets lost in the commentary about the legal industry. What firms in many cases actually do is what they want to and then rationalise that as strategy. To a certain extent this course wi...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
US briefing: Still paved with gold
Nothing captured the spirit of the leveraged age for Wall Street law firms quite so much as the private equity 'club' deal. As the name suggests, the deals attracted quite the crowd: lawyers for the consortium of buyers, the underwriters who scramb...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
US briefing: One step back
For the first time in years, the population of minority lawyers at big US law firms is shrinking. Emily Barker reports
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01 |
A break from the norm
In a 2007 report about public and private sector approaches to sabbaticals, researchers at the University of Illinois found that "many corporations consider the benefits of sabbaticals so self-evident that they forego the expense of documenting them."...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Shake the foundation
LexisNexis' Bob Hadingham argues that law firms should be gearing up to radically overhaul their underlying business processes in order to emerge from the recession in the best possible form
10 Mar 2010 | 12:07 |
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