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A&O in Oz – on the cards, sort of
February is already shaping up to be an eventful month with the news today that Allen & Overy (A&O) is making its debut in Australia with a 17-partner team coming just days after Latham & Watkins reinforced its international network with a 13-partner ...
08 Feb 2010 | 15:52
White & Case departures – no easy fightback this time
White & Case's City arm is looking increasingly like the unhappy child of the credit boom. While the practice could do no wrong in 2006 and 2007, achieving City revenues of around £100m after a period of explosive growth, the news revealed today by L...
29 Jan 2010 | 17:27
Worth another crack at the glass ceiling
Women and law, eh? Same old, same old! Loads enter the profession but most fall off the career track of large City law firms by the time it comes to handing out partnership. By most estimates, more than half of the lawyers entering the profession are ...
21 Jan 2010 | 17:50
Action Jackson?
I don't know about you, but reviews of litigation procedure and costs just don't get my heart pumping like they used to. More than 10 years after the Woolf reforms largely failed to achieve the aims of faster dispute resolution and more proportionate ...
15 Jan 2010 | 15:57
Whatever happened to procurement and law?
One thing you quickly learn from writing about business - the corporate world, much as it likes to pretend that commerce is a frightfully complicated but essentially scientific and logical process, actually does a lot of stuff because of fashion. Call...
06 Jan 2010 | 17:22
Forward Features 2010 – fame at last
As part of our New Year's resolutions, Legal Week has decided to break with its long-cherished tradition of hiding its forward features calendar in places on our website so obscure that even I on occasion struggle to find it.One of the reasons we are ...
05 Jan 2010 | 14:27
2009 – a year in commentary
Remaining in 'year in review' mode as 2009 draws to a close, I've taken the time to pick out a selection of commentary pieces from Legal Week over the 12-month period, either because they highlighted interesting issues or just because they came out be...
16 Dec 2009 | 10:18
The Editor’s Award 2009...
As I nurse a heavy head from last night's British Legal Awards, I'd like to extend my thanks to our independent judging panel and congratulations to the winners. This year I have also decided to confer upon myself the right to create the Editor's A...
04 Dec 2009 | 11:17
You get what you pay for (now online)
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that Legal Week has been going through changes to its publishing model that mean we now produce premium content which is only available to subscribers. The foundation for this shift is our monthly In depth stand...
27 Nov 2009 | 17:18
Global law and the McDonald’s myth
I hadn't meant to return to the scorched-earth territory of Hogan Lovells again this quickly, but several posts on the subject this week got me thinking. In particular, some readers have argued that, since the proposed union will involve two profit ce...
20 Nov 2009 | 15:42
Deliver us from navel-gazing – some interesting deals at last
In what will hopefully prove a sign of slightly less deal-phobic times, the emergence of a couple of interesting corporate bids has given me something to write about other than The Future Of Law (all well and good, but you can have too much of a good ...
13 Nov 2009 | 17:26
Judging the judges
Recently I was asked to step outside my comfort zone of banging on about corporate law to speak at a panel debate about the rising political and constitutional role of the judiciary (I suggested they get someone better, but they asked twice). It was a...
06 Nov 2009 | 17:37
Don't want to be a partner? We have the technology
I have no idea if ItsMyLaw, the business currently talking to several substantial commercial law firms about using contract lawyers, will be a company that ushers in a breakthrough in the legal business model. But it would be surprising if the UK lega...
30 Oct 2009 | 14:44
Law Firm of the Year – why they made the shortlist
As previously mentioned, this year Legal Week's editorial team has taken a more hands-on role in helping to draw up the shortlists for the 2009 British Legal Awards. The clearest example of that is for arguably the biggest award of the night, Law Firm...
23 Oct 2009 | 15:59
Why do junior lawyers fear winning business?
In my line of work I spend a lot of time talking to lawyers, but mostly at the senior end. So I was interested to attend a recent event focused on the experiences of associates. Many of the concerns voiced at Legal Week's inaugural An audience with......
19 Oct 2009 | 13:26
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