At the Global Independent Law Firms Forum, Norton Rose Fulbright chief executive Peter Martyr told John Malpas how he changed his firm’s mindset and urged business lawyers to give more back to society
What are your views on the state of the global legal market?
It is a very confused picture out there and I suspect there are some people experiencing good times, but a lot who are seeing less good times. I remember talking to my partnership in 2007 or 2008 and saying: “Do you realise this is the first time in the economic history of the world that every economic bloc has been in growth?” And you look at it now and you wonder whether that will ever happen again.
