Editors’ Blog
First-person takes on law firm news covered by Legal Week.
Author: John Malpas is editor-in-chief and Alex Novarese is editor at London-based Legal Week.
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Recent Posts from Editors’ Blog
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Linklaters slows as cold wind buffets the City
Last week (24 November), Linklaters became the latest firm to announce its revenues for the first half of the current financial year, reporting a slight increase on last year. Linklaters' billings for the period from 1 May…
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A welcome breath of reform for bribery laws
A radical — and to many, long overdue — overhaul of the UK’s bribery and corruption laws looks set to take place following a new report by the Law Commission. The existing anti-corruption regime, which…
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Deleveraging, legal-style
Once in a while a business story catches the eye because it goes right against the grain. One that passes that test is news that DLA Piper’s US arm is set to vote on a…
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Burning Oxbridges
It never ceases to amaze me the passions that the Bar arouses when it comes to diversity and privilege. In hindsight, I probably should have made a few points clearer about our recent Future stars at the Bar…
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H1 mystery shows City transparency still work in progress
I’ve always found Slaughter and May’s obsessive secrecy around its financial results somewhat outdated and melodramatic. It seems at times as if they feel the need to maintain the mystique lest anyone realise that they…
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When the facts change...
With Keynesian ideas back in fashion amid the current binge of state intervention, I was reminded of one of the great man’s quotes recently upon hearing of a law firm that was struggling to acknowledge…
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The axe swings: half the top 50 will have cut by April
It seemed a simple enough exercise. After several months not short of redundancy announcements, and firms now reaching the halfway point in their financial year, we wanted to get a comprehensive picture of the intentions…
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Bakers' doyenne
Several years ago, I attended an event in Paris at which Christine Lagarde, the then chairman of Baker & McKenzie, was also present. At one point a young French lawyer from a local firm approached…
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Apocalypse, er, flat
Can we now take a break from melodramatic press reports about plunging confidence on the back of 'renewed fears' about an economy that seems forever 'on the brink' of recession? At this point there should…
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A global model (except Italy)
Forget France’s much-touted cultural exceptionalism, in Europe the country that truly ignores the established rules of international legal practice is Italy. The roll call of firms that have seen major splits or walk-outs in Italy…