“Ten years ago, someone said to me that Leeds could not support all these firms. The hypothesis was that there was not enough work around and that at least one of you is going to go to the wall. But we have all gone from strength to strength,” Pinsent Curtis Biddle’s Leeds-based head of corporate Michael Shaw told a specially convened round table of Leeds’ top lawyers last week.
Representatives of Addleshaw Booth & Co, DLA, Eversheds, Hammond Suddards Edge, Irwin Mitchell, Pinsent Curtis Biddle and Walker Morris met not only to congratulate each other, but to chart the course from here. And while they may be agreed on the success they have enjoyed over the past decade, the next 10 years look more challenging.
