A consolidating profession, a surge in energy and construction work and the 2010 World Cup has helped South Africa’s legal community buck the global gloom. Jeffrey White reports

The types of work that continue to drive many of South Africa’s top law firms have proven remarkably resilient to the US credit crisis, largely because they are attached to internal factors unique to the local market. That has lawyers here more optimistic than their counterparts elsewhere that their deal loads can remain robust in the face of fears about a global recession.

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