For this year's UK Top 50, Legal Week has talked to law firm leaders across the market for their take on the key trends from 2016-17, as well as their plans for the year ahead. Here, management figures at firms including Simmons & Simmons, Stephenson Harwood, Ashurst, Macfarlanes and Taylor Wessing discuss how the market is holding up

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  • Michael Chissick, managing partner, Fieldfisher

On 2016-17: "It was our fifth year averaging double-digit growth. Having looked at some of the other firms' published numbers, I think we have published among the largest percentage turnover growth. so I think that makes us among the fastest-growing firms in Europe.

"If you'd have told me just over a year ago at the time of Brexit that we were going to have such a good year, I would have said it was not going to happen. We did suffer a lull last year from June through to August, but I think we've bounced back strongly."