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October 31, 2013 |
Law firm IT directors are battling to support an influx of personal tablets and other mobile devices in the workplace, with almost a third of lawyers now using tablets in the office. The number of lawyers using devices such as iPads and Android tablets has grown by almost half in the last year, with around 34% uptake at law firms, compared to 23% in 2012, according to Legal Week Intelligence's annual IT Report. The survey, which canvassed the views of more than 2,000 lawyers at leading firms, found that although tablet use has increased significantly, the vast majority of these devices (94%) are personally owned, with law firms still restricting company devices to the senior echelons.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 31, 2013 | International Edition
Law firm IT directors are battling to support an influx of personal tablets and other mobile devices in the workplace, with almost a third of lawyers now using tablets in the office. The number of lawyers using devices such as iPads and Android tablets has grown by almost half in the last year, with around 34% uptake at law firms, compared to 23% in 2012, according to Legal Week Intelligence's annual IT Report. The survey, which canvassed the views of more than 2,000 lawyers at leading firms, found that although tablet use has increased significantly, the vast majority of these devices (94%) are personally owned, with law firms still restricting company devices to the senior echelons.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 17, 2013 |
For most people, an office job means spending the majority of their waking hours sitting in one place surrounded by the same group of people. Undoubtedly, some of these people you would not have chosen to sit next to. Others you may get on with very well. Either way it has to be a hard choice to keep something as basic as your sexuality a secret from people you spend such a large proportion of your life with. Although the legal profession provides countless examples of impressive deal-doers and business leaders for up-and-coming lawyers to aspire to intellectually, it seems in some areas it lacks people to look up to on a personal basis. As our feature this week discusses, there is only a handful of openly gay solicitors and barristers in senior positions to act as role models for those coming up through the ranks. So it is in this vein that leading gay charity Stonewall and a group of senior partners and barristers are calling for more homosexual lawyers to step forward and talk about their experiences of coming out.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 17, 2013 | International Edition
For most people, an office job means spending the majority of their waking hours sitting in one place surrounded by the same group of people. Undoubtedly, some of these people you would not have chosen to sit next to. Others you may get on with very well. Either way it has to be a hard choice to keep something as basic as your sexuality a secret from people you spend such a large proportion of your life with. Although the legal profession provides countless examples of impressive deal-doers and business leaders for up-and-coming lawyers to aspire to intellectually, it seems in some areas it lacks people to look up to on a personal basis. As our feature this week discusses, there is only a handful of openly gay solicitors and barristers in senior positions to act as role models for those coming up through the ranks. So it is in this vein that leading gay charity Stonewall and a group of senior partners and barristers are calling for more homosexual lawyers to step forward and talk about their experiences of coming out.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 10, 2013 |
For a conservative bunch, lawyers can be pretty vain. And it seems that property is one of their biggest vanity projects. The top UK and US law firms undoubtedly occupy some of the best office space in the City – and all done out to a high spec. And while you could argue that firms are obliged to follow their high-end clients to the most central locations, it clearly boils down to more than that. Given the location and standard of K&L Gates' London base at One New Change, it was an open secret it is among the most expensive offices in the City. But news this week that the UK partnership spends the princely sum of £8.4m annually on property – equating to more than 20% of the turnover the London arm brought in last year – demonstrates the scale of the firm's commitment.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 10, 2013 | International Edition
For a conservative bunch, lawyers can be pretty vain. And it seems that property is one of their biggest vanity projects. The top UK and US law firms undoubtedly occupy some of the best office space in the City – and all done out to a high spec. And while you could argue that firms are obliged to follow their high-end clients to the most central locations, it clearly boils down to more than that. Given the location and standard of K&L Gates' London base at One New Change, it was an open secret it is among the most expensive offices in the City. But news this week that the UK partnership spends the princely sum of £8.4m annually on property – equating to more than 20% of the turnover the London arm brought in last year – demonstrates the scale of the firm's commitment.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 3, 2013 |
As recently as a decade ago it would have been pretty easy to count the number of countries where top UK law firms had set up international offices. Now, as their client base becomes ever-more global and competition for work at home intensifies, this is no longer the case. If school level French, Spanish or German could ever have got you through your dealings with international counterparts, they certainly can't now as clients look further afield to Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
October 3, 2013 | International Edition
As recently as a decade ago it would have been pretty easy to count the number of countries where top UK law firms had set up international offices. Now, as their client base becomes ever-more global and competition for work at home intensifies, this is no longer the case. If school level French, Spanish or German could ever have got you through your dealings with international counterparts, they certainly can't now as clients look further afield to Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
September 12, 2013 |
If year-on-year fee increases and a buoyant M&A market imbued a certain stasis, five years of economic woes have certainly driven change through the conservative legal profession. The comparative proliferation of global giants of the ilk of Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose Fulbright and, more recently, King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWM) serve as fine examples of the diverging market, with an increasingly international client base driving the case for cross-border mergers.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
September 12, 2013 | International Edition
If year-on-year fee increases and a buoyant M&A market imbued a certain stasis, five years of economic woes have certainly driven change through the conservative legal profession. The comparative proliferation of global giants of the ilk of Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose Fulbright and, more recently, King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWM) serve as fine examples of the diverging market, with an increasingly international client base driving the case for cross-border mergers.
By Charlotte Edmond
1 minute read
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