Identifying the leaders in any particular field is rarely a straightforward task, with personal preferences over style, approach or technique often coming to the fore. When Legal Week asked City civil and criminal fraud partners whom they saw as the leading practitioners at the Bar in the two fields, a consensus was hard to come by.
“Three main qualities are needed,” says one senior City fraud partner, describing his ideal counsel for work on white-collar crime. “They are the willingness to pay attention to detail; the ability to absorb that detail; and courtroom presence. The combination of all three is not very common.”
