Three UK law firms – Shoosmiths, Linklaters LLP, and Weightmans LLP – have reported top financial performance for the 2023/24 fiscal year, with Shoosmiths crossing the £200-million revenue threshold for the first time. Shoosmiths’ revenue grew by 6 percent to £206.7 million and the firm’s profits increased by 5 percent to £66 million as it […]
Shining A Light On New Rankings Success Factors Tom Borman, LawFuel Contributing Writer Writing recently about law firm rankings saw several inquiries from lawyers asking how the rankings and their criteria were changing. And changing they are. So identifying the shifts in law firm ranking criteria sees seven key changes that lawyers wanting to get
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Welcome to the Salaried Partner Australian law firm partnership structures are under pressure following high growth and intense competition for top legal talent. The result is a growing move towards salaried partnership arrangements as the pressure goes on traditional equity allocations. This follows trends in other jurisdictions, such as the ‘black box’ pay model that
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Boost Your Firm’s Rankings Now Tom Borman, Contributing writer Law firm rankings are big business and increasingly important for law firms seeking to boost not only law firm prestige, but also legal business. But with all the ranking systems around, which are the best and how exactly do they deploy their methodologies to work out
The Multi-Billion Dollar Musk Law Fee Battle Tom Borman, LawFuel Contributing Writer There have been plenty of arguments about legal fees, but in the case of Elon Musk it was always going to be different and – wow! – different it is with the Delaware Court now facing a question about the Tesla legal fee
Leading Law Firm Marketers Explain How To Escape the Law Marketing Echo Chamber Kevin Wheeler and George Beaton Together, we have more years of experience in law firm marketing than we would care to admit. Over the decades we have definitely seen the professionalism of this key business function improve, but why do we still
The Rapid Growth of the Lisinski Law Firm Ben Thomson, Law Firm Contributor It’s not often that an immigration lawyer would hit the ‘law star’ list, but then Lisinski Law owner Angelyne ‘Angel’ Lisinski is probably no ordinary immigration lawyer, either and her path to success in law started as an immigration love story. Angel
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A Lull In Law Merger Activity In the evolving landscape of legal practice consolidation, the first half of 2024 has witnessed a subtle yet notable shift in merger dynamics among law firms. While the overall number of completed mergers has marginally increased, the landscape for large-scale combinations remains relatively quiescent. According to recent data from
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The Lady Gaga Callout Powerful Manhattan law firm Grubman, Shire, Meiselas, and Sacks has ended its longstanding relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs following pressure from profile clients like Lady Gaga who issued the ultimatum: dump Sean Combs or we leave. Lady Gaga and others threatened to leave the leading media and entertainment law firm if
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International law firm Slaughter and May has won “Energy and Infrastructure Team of the Year” at The Lawyer Awards. The firm was awarded this accolade for its work advising ENGIE SA as lead counsel in relation to its negotiations with the Belgian Government concerning a ten-year lifetime extension of two nuclear units, agreements for which were signed
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