Corporate teams at Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are relying on larger – and younger – teams of associates to power up their revenues. According to data collected by The Lawyer’s Practice Analysis service, firms housing a larger number of junior lawyers help to grow revenues quicker compared to firms with a more senior […]
Well-known for its white-collar crime and fraud offering, Hogan Lovells’ litigation team is gearing up for a new era of litigation: tech, cyber and crypto disputes.
Last year, The Lawyer started analysing practice area efficiency among the biggest UK and US law firms and their teams in the UK. With the help of Practice Analysis, The Lawyer once again highlights the practice area efficiency at firms in the UK. This year we kick off our efficiency analysis by delving deeper into […]
Paul Hastings has hired two disputes partners from Latham & Watkins, including its London head of litigation. Oliver Browne, who has been co-chair of Latham’s London litigation practice since 2018, and Stuart Alford KC, former head of banking fraud at the Serious Fraud Office, are set to join Paul Hastings. Browne leaves Latham after 18 […]
Three US firms can claim to have the most junior corporate partnerships in the UK, data from The Lawyer can reveal, highlighting stark differences between the investment strategies of the nation’s transactional teams. Kirkland & Ellis has the youngest corporate partnership overall, as a result of its quicker route to non-equity at around six years’ […]
Using metrics such as RPL, RPP and associate leverage, The Lawyer’s new Practice Analysis service highlights the most – and least – efficient firms across the UK’s disputes teams.
The makeup of the London legal market is as diverse as the clients and industries it serves, featuring an array of firms across the spectrum in terms of size, clientele and revenue. For every magic circle firm, the legal market of the City provides a rich hunting ground for smaller firms that generate a fraction […]
How does the magic circle compare when assessing measures of efficiency such as revenue per lawyer, revenue per partner, associate leverage and churn rate? The Lawyer’s new Practice Analysis service delves deeper.
In July, The Lawyer started its analysis of the third group in its Practice Analysis offering – real estate. The report for July looks at the UK real estate practices of more than 180 firms, ranks them by the size of their real estate team and provides important efficiency measures such as revenue per lawyer […]
During the first quarter of 2023, The Lawyer launched Practice Analysis, providing insights into banking and finance practices at over 180 private practice law firms in the UK. Practice Analysis provides critical insights into team sizes and spread by PQE, hiring activity and profitability. With the help of the Practice Analysis service, this article identifies […]
In the second quarter of the year, The Lawyer’s Practice Analysis service analysed the UK corporate practices of 230 US and UK firms. The first two data tools provide critical data and insight on, and analysis of, team sizes and spread, as well as hiring activity at the firms and trends in the recruitment market […]