Clients in the northwest are increasingly looking to their legal advisers to share the risks as well as the returns on their relationship. This move towards the lawyer as business consultant is shifting the emphasis away from ‘technical’ legal expertise to a more generalised service, focused on the commercial imperatives of the client’s business.
Manchester is one of the UK’s most competitive legal marketplaces. The firms that survive in the year ahead will be those that read changing market requirements and adapt accordingly.
