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Libel reform suddenly – score one for the blogosphere
With libel reform being sporadically debated for years, mostly with little expectation of action, justice secretary Jack Straw's announcement this week that the Government is to virtually abolish success fees for defamation cases has rather caught eve...
05 Mar 2010 | 16:18
Freshfields' pay round: market-leading again in many senses
Well, the 2010 pay round for City assistants has largely already been set, and we didn't even make it out of February. That is because Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - having quite rightly led the market in early 2009 by halting its assistant lockstep...
01 Mar 2010 | 13:15
Communications breakdown
The question of what clients want from their external legal advisers and how law firms meet this demand may well be nothing new, but two recent examples suggest that this is an area where there is still a significant lack of communication.
22 Feb 2010 | 15:11
SJ Berwin's US strategy – time to dance?
For as long as I can remember there has been talk of when or whether SJ Berwin would try to put together a merger with a US law firm. For a firm with a thrusting US-style culture and a tempting European footprint for an international suitor, it isn't ...
11 Feb 2010 | 15:40
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
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