Your firm may not be interested in private equity, but private equity is interested in your firm
Send us Fan Mail Law firm listings are out of fashion, but private equity interest in firms has never been higher. With more deals already struck this year, The Lawyer Podcast crew sets out the state...
10 Apr 202527min
Could you hack it as a startup GC?
Send us Fan Mail Dynamic. Modern. Exciting. From Revolut to Bloom & Wild, Darktrace to Fever, startups are increasingly the place to be in the UK - and that is the case for lawyers too. So as the pote...
27 Mar 202526min
Does Linklaters’ exit spell the end for the Magic Circle in Eastern Europe?
Send us Fan Mail Poland’s GDP per capita could surpass Japan’s next year and may exceed the UK’s by the end of the decade. Such statistics help explain why the Eastern European nation is seeing an inf...
13 Mar 202522min
Absolute scenes: Freshfields, Willkie and how Merricks v Mastercard bankrolled the litigation market
Send us Fan Mail £20m is a number most recently associated with top private equity partners, but that’s the amount a team from Willkie Farr & Gallagher has been paid for its work on the iconic Merrick...
27 Feb 202529min
Law firm sustainability in the age of Trump
Send us Fan Mail As Donald Trump and his allies put corporate ESG on both sides of the Atlantic in their crosshairs, is now the time for law firms to stand up and prove that their sustainability progr...
13 Feb 202532min
We need to talk about Latham
Send us Fan Mail Losing more than a dozen partners in a year isn’t good for any firm, but it’s particularly bad if you are a top of the market type practice like Latham & Watkins. But after such a stu...
30 Jan 202531min
When litigation gets big, who you gonna call?
Send us Fan Mail The Lawyer Podcast is back with for 2025! Every January for the past 15 years, The Lawyer has published its Top 20 Cases to look out for in the coming year. Each year’s list boasts of...
16 Jan 202525min
Christmas Special: Is someone you know a workaholic?
Send us Fan Mail It's less than a week until Christmas and across the country, fires are blazing, trees are twinkling and pigs in blankets are roasting. But in offices, lawyers still have their noses ...
19 Des 202430min
