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Law firm marketing in need of marketing
29/02/2008
This is not something I ever imagined myself writing but having looked at this week’s Career Clinic, I’m feeling grudgingly moved to defend the noble art of marketing at law firms.For those that haven’t seen it, a two-year qualified solicitor...Oddly, Halliwells fires an unwelcome starting gun
27/02/2008
Not very impressively for a paid-up pundit, I wouldn’t have guessed Halliwells would be the first. While it has looked likely for some time that the current slowdown would see some retrenchment at the offices of new and newish entrants...All over bar the moaning about the pound
21/02/2008
The good news for Clifford Chance (CC) is that the once-ceaseless sniping it suffered in Manhattan has been reduced to a few ex-partners making bitchy comments about the exchange rate. That, at least to judge by an in-depth profile of...Class actions and other scary stories
19/02/2008
Has there ever been a more useful bogeyman for the UK business lobby than the class action monster? Whatever the circumstance or evidence to the contrary, if it involves litigation against a company or public body by individuals, policy-makers and...One for the PR community…
14/02/2008
While I’m not planning on boring readers with many blogs on the inner workings of Legal Week, I’ve repeatedly been told by our marketing department that ‘educating the market’ is A Good Thing. As such, it seems an apt moment...Those BHP mandates – credit crunch? What credit crunch?!
12/02/2008
Oh, for a part in BHP Billiton’s battle for mining rival Rio Tinto Group. While the two Anglo-Australian mining giants keep a long line of legal advisers billing late into the night, stats on European M&A in January show just...The Unpredictable States of America
8/02/2008
What can you tell from the numbers emerging from America’s largest law firms as this year’s ‘reporting season’ gets under way? The obvious conclusion - aside from the fact that the uncertain economic climate is already having some impact -...Keeping up with the White & Cases?
5/02/2008
At the end of January, White & Case and Weil Gotshal & Manges confirmed eye-catching 2007 financial results for their London offices.White & Case excelled in revenue growth, increasing its top line by 37% to reach $235.7m (£119m), up from...CSR reaches its legal tipping point
1/02/2008
It is remarkable how quickly a debate can move once the momentum builds. Legal Week recently noted that law firms, while waking up in recent years to the marketing potential of corporate social responsibility (CSR), were not yet ready to...
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