Norton Rose’s long-awaited revival passes another test

Here’s a little story about the bunker mentality that had taken hold of Norton Rose not so long ago. Putting together a top 50 review in 2005, Legal Week named the firm as one of five ‘ones to watch’. The idea was to flag up firms that showed promise for the future. However, I later found out that some partners took it as some kind of dig, assuming the watching we were intending was of disaster set to unfold.