To some readers, it may seem odd for Legal Week to be celebrating the achievements of Europe’s independent firms just when the deal market is playing into the hands of the top international players.
Nevertheless, our third Independent Law Firms in Europe supplement finds the Continent’s home-grown practices in much ruder health than they were in 2002. This is good news for the UK’s own crop of independent firms, which were rattled five years ago when they feared they may run out of competent lawyers to refer their cross-border European work to.
