The calm of the Chambers office was, if not shattered, then at least mildy disturbed last Thursday by the news that Lovells and US firm Hogan & Hartson are in the early stages of merger talks. While it’s far too early to see the merger as a foregone conclusion – [...]

The fate of Marc Dreier, the once respected Manhattan litigator, provides a timely parable. In the 1990s, Dreier co-headed the litigation department at Fulbright & Jaworski, but he wanted more, so quit and founded his own firm: Dreier LLP, which grew to 250 lawyers, in little over a decade. Dreier may [...]

Another day, another survey at Chambers Magazine – this time, in an arresting moment of self-reflection, we thought we’d look at our own subscribers, with reference to our rankings of law firms. We were interested in any correlation between ranking and subscription - are big firms more likely to subscribe to Chambers Report?   The results revealed a surprisingly [...]

In our most recent issue, Chambers Magazine interviewed leading anti-trust lawyer Michael Hausfeld on the impact of the government rejection of the Civil Justice Council report. The CJC Report had recommended an improved ‘opt-out’ system of class actions, as a way to improve consumer rights and prevent cartelisation. English group actions [...]

Our FTSE Survey has been running for over 10 years now, and this is my third year co-ordinating the research. We were worried when we began this year’s research that in-house counsel, busy dealing with the fires ignited by the economic crisis, might be too busy to respond. But I’m [...]