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The partner class of 2020 are lucky: they’re being elected by optimists

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If the C-suite has learned one thing from 2008, it’s how to talk

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The pandemic and climate change need two styles of leadership

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Signs of hope, despite another male-dominated silk round

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City firms are nowhere near bridging the North-South divide

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Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive: predictions for the next 10 years in...

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Not quite a gender crisis, but there are a lot of angry female barristers out...

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Winter is coming for Middle England law firms – they can’t say they weren’t...

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Leadership still means ‘lawyer’: the age-old ‘us and them’ hierarchy is alive...

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At least the competition lawyers have found a Brexit dividend

Given that we are apparently obliged to contemplate Brexit until the great trumpet sounds, let’s consider some of the consequences of the referendum that we’re seeing winding through the courts. There...

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Want some easy pickings in UK law? Insurance firms are juicy targets

Spare a thought for EC3. Clyde & Co and Kennedys may have expanded overseas, but you can’t buccaneer your way to domestic growth. One of the biggest questions facing insurance firms is how they can...

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Access to justice: A little more talk, please, from the City. Your silence is...

Fair dealings under the rule of law, from which the commercial legal sector has derived immense riches, is under threat. The post Access to justice: A little more talk, please, from the City. Your...

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City 50: Forget Project Fear, the UK legal pie keeps getting bigger

There are 21 US-headquartered firms in the City 50, our first-ever ranking of law firms by London revenue. That fact alone has caused some jitters among certain sections of the UK market. It shouldn’t....

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Step forward, litigators: you’re in the driving seat in the global elite

Litigation, the engine of the stratospheric domestic profits for US firms, is, ironically, the calling card for the UK’s elite law firms if they are ever to crack America, writes The Lawyer’s editor...

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It’s not about the kit. In tech and innovation, firms need to learn to speak...

There will soon be a transfer market for law's tech celebrities, and the internal opportunities are attractive. The post It’s not about the kit. In tech and innovation, firms need to learn to speak...

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Comment: Flexible working isn’t just for women – inclusion in law firms is...

Gender, gender, gender: how firms retain female talent is a board-level discussion point. The born-again evangelism among managing partners isn’t feigned, I grant you, but it’s pretty one-note, as if...

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New dawn, new challenges for the Clifford Chance disputes team

The Clifford Chance litigation team has finally got something it can talk about that isn’t Excalibur. The post New dawn, new challenges for the Clifford Chance disputes team appeared first on The...

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Freshfields lockstep reform: Now it can finally hire the finance lawyers it...

If Freshfields doesn't pick off other magic circle lawyers, lockstep reform will be a waste The post Freshfields lockstep reform: Now it can finally hire the finance lawyers it needs appeared first on...

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What 30 years of The Lawyer tells us: feminist pressure worked

We can broadly divide the past 30 years of the UK legal sector into three phases: innocence and enthusiasm; expansion and over-reach; and chastened realism. The post What 30 years of The Lawyer tells...

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European 100 2017: Firms still need the Euro vision

Loath as one is to shoehorn last June’s referendum vote into everything, the prospect of a hard Brexit is suddenly concentrating the minds of UK law firms. The post European 100 2017: Firms still need...

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