The Big Question
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Online special: Partners hail gay initiatives
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | April 16, 2008
More than 90% of leading lawyers believe the profession has improved its record on supporting gay staff, as highlighted by a number of law firms recently launching their own lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups. Emma Sadowski reports
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Online special: Continued market turmoil takes its toll on top firms' confidence
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | April 2, 2008
Law firms are scaling back growth predictions in the face of continued market turmoil, according to Legal Week research, with international firms increasingly backing the Middle East and Asia to drive their current expansion. Legal Week's quarterly business confidence poll shows the lowest level of partners predicting double-digit growth over the next 12 months since the poll began in 2001. Eleven percent of respondents expected turnover to grow by more than 10% over the coming year, against 30% in the last poll in January and a high last year of 70%.
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Online special: City partners name BLP as most upwardly mobile in chasing pack
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 12, 2008
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Herbert Smith and Ashurst have seen their market reputation improve more in the last three years than any other 'chasing pack' firm, according to new Legal Week research. The latest Legal Week/EJ Legal Big Question survey of leading City lawyers asked them to rank which two firms had made the most progress improving their market positions over the last three years, with respondents ranking BLP as the firm which has made the most progress.
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Online special: Non-dom tax row stokes partner fears over Labour's City support
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 27, 2008
Almost a third of leading lawyers think the UK Government's tax policies have damaged the City's position as a global financial centre, with almost 70% objecting to recent proposals to impose a charge on non-domiciled individuals.Legal Week research found that 20% of City lawyers think the Labour Government's tax policies have had a negative impact on the City's position, while a further 11% go further and argue the policies have actively driven business away.
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Online special: Non-dom tax row stokes partner fears over Labour's City support
By Charlotte Edmond | February 27, 2008
Almost a third of leading lawyers think the UK Government's tax policies have damaged the City's position as a global financial centre, with almost 70% objecting to recent proposals to impose a charge on non-domiciled individuals.Legal Week research found that 20% of City lawyers think the Labour Government's tax policies have had a negative impact on the City's position, while a further 11% go further and argue the policies have actively driven business away.
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Online special: Legal services reforms viewed serious threat to future of the Bar
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 13, 2008
More than half of the UK's leading lawyers believe the Bar's independence is under threat from sweeping reforms contained in the Legal Services Act (LSA), according to new research. The finding is part of the latest Legal Week/EJ Legal Big Question survey, which polled senior solicitors on their views on the future of the Bar in the wake of fundamental reform to the UK's regulatory framework for legal services.Fifty-eight percent of responding partners said that the LSA was a threat to the future of the Bar, including 12% who thought the Act was a threat to the extent that 'the writing is on the wall' for the Bar's future.
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Online special: CSR winning more lawyer converts
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | January 30, 2008
Only a small percentage of UK lawyers are strongly opposed to taking on ethically-questionable mandates, a survey of the profession has found, even though the majority believe doing so can damage a law firm's reputation. Just 11% of leading UK lawyers said ethics should be a major consideration in accepting new clients in the latest Legal Week/EJ Legal Big Question survey. The majority (66.5%) said law firms should consider instructions from controversial regimes or corporate clients on a case-by-case basis.
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Online special: Global economic woes create sharp downturn in business confidence
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | January 16, 2008
Business confidence among the UK's top lawyers has dropped from sky-high levels to its lowest rate in almost five years in the clearest indication yet that City partners expect shifts in the global economy to hit the legal sector. The quarterly Legal Week/EJ Legal business confidence poll shows 30% of partners are expecting double-digit revenue growth over the next 12 months, down from last year's high of 70% and significantly down from 66% last quarter.
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| Analysis
Russian bear meets bull market
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | January 9, 2008
Russia's oil-driven economic revival is generating a flood of corporate work and surging demand for City partners. Richard Lloyd reports on Moscow's white-hot legal market
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Online special: Negligence claims could spell the end for a large law firm, say top lawyers
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | December 12, 2007
Partners warn that litigation risks for law firms are mounting in the global marketplace in the wake of a spate of negligence claims, but firms have beefed up their risk management procedures. Michelle Madsen reports on the latest Big Question survey
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