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The Legal Industry's Existential Doubts Go Beyond the Coronavirus

Across the legal industry, firms and lawyers alike are tangling with questions about their broader purpose. Where will the search for answers lead them?
4 minute read

International Edition

CFIUS Still Approving Well-Prepared Chinese Deals

The Pentagon has called for "hyper-vigilance" in reviewing foreign investment because of the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There has already been a negative focus on trade with China and continuing scrutiny of China-based investment by U.S. government officials should be expected. This does not mean that deals cannot be approved.
6 minute read

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Welcome to the Law Firm Office of the Future: Smaller, Higher-Tech and One-Way

As law firms get comfortable with remote work, the likelihood that physical offices will look far different in the future continues to grow.
4 minute read

International Edition

Reinventing Your Law Firm: If Not Now, When?

As the demand for legal services lessens, supply will increase, leaving lawyers and law firms that lack strong positioning and differentiation struggling to overcome perceptions that they're offering nothing more than a commodity.
8 minute read

International Edition

Why More Firms Should Cut Salaries Sooner Rather Than Later

As we approach the end of April, firms are running out of time to materially reduce 2020 costs, Hugh A. Simons writes. Salary cuts have appeal not just because compensation comprises about two-thirds of total cost, but also because they deliver immediate savings.
6 minute read

International Edition

Do Law Firm Rankings Even Matter Right Now?

It's hard not to regard many of our pre-coronavirus concerns as small, trivial and beside the point.
4 minute read

International Edition

From the Editor: What the 2019 Numbers Tell Us About Managing Through 2020

For firms with cash on hand, the coming months will be much more manageable, Gina Passarella writes in the editor's note from the 2020 Am Law 100 report.
4 minute read

International Edition

Has the Magic Circle Lost Its Magic?

It may be time to reconsider the way we define and consider the so-called Magic Circle of elite U.K. firms.
4 minute read

International Edition

The Parallels of the Only Two Solicitors To Have Run the UK

In challenging circumstances Dominic Raab has been thrust into a role that has been held by only one solicitor before him: David Lloyd George.
5 minute read

International Edition

The London Lawyer Briefing: The Week Fear Became Reality

An analysis of the week's news shows the various ways law firms are attempting to shore up their finances.
5 minute read

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