Editors' Blog
US results 2007: high growth, high anxiety
1/05/2008
Here’s a telling story regarding the ambiguous mood in the outwardly-robust US legal market.At the time its well-received union was being finalised during late summer 2007, Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae were predicting profit distributions to partners...Bullish Linklaters leads on pay but will others follow?
30/04/2008
It certainly wasn’t a forgone conclusion but Linklaters set the agenda for the City pay round today (30 April) when it confirmed that it was lifting its salary bands for assistants for the financial year to come. The rise, which...Can I have some high-risk unpredictability, please?
25/04/2008
It seems entirely fitting that it was a corporate partner at a magic circle firm that brought the latest innovation in external litigation funding to Legal Week’s attention, rather than a litigator.The initiative, as detailed in a news story this...A&O’s RIM costs, part II - the Cadillac defence
22/04/2008
Finally, some good news for Allen & Overy’s (A&O’s) litigation team. While they have been branded over-priced in the UK, A&O could always refocus its IP practice on the US, where the City giant’s BlackBerry-related fees have received a comprehensive...A&O’s RIM costs – the bottom line is still the bottom line
18/04/2008
It has been a long time since a major UK law firm was on the receiving end of the kind of drubbing that Mr Justice Floyd yesterday (17 April) visited on Allen & Overy (A&O).Assessing costs on A&O’s largely successful...So near non-dom, so far
17/04/2008
At last, after months of searching for a US lawyer who was about to relocate across the Pond in protest at Alistair Darling’s cack-handed assault on the non-dom community, it appeared that Legal Week’s news team had at last located...SJs: thinking beyond Europe
11/04/2008
SJ Berwin is reaching a key point in its international development. Having nearly a decade ago trail-blazed by relaunching itself as a European player, the question is where the firm goes now that its long Continental campaign is largely finished.That...