Birmingham’s corporate work is drifting away, but new entrants are chasing its growing commercial market. Derek Bedlow asks if there is enough work to go around
Not so long ago, the middle tier of Birmingham’s legal market was a pretty comfortable, if unexciting, place to be. The city’s big five – Wragge & Co, Pinsent Curtis (now Pinsent Masons), Eversheds, DLA and Edge Ellison (now Hammonds) – had for some time been fishing in waters well outside of the West Midlands, leaving a significant, if waning, corporate client base behind for the middle tier to carve up in gentlemanly fashion.
