What Does Innovation Mean in the US Legal Market? 07 Dec 2010

In the years that we have been researching and writing about innovative lawyers, we have never arrived at a static definition for one. In looking for legal innovation, we have found ourselves charting the rapid evolution of an inherently conservative profession. …
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The Most Innovative US Law Firms in 2010 07 Dec 2010

table of leading law firms4 The Most Innovative US Law Firms in 2010

The above table shows the top ten US law firms in the 2010 FT report. The ranking was determined by the overall performance of each law firm in the inaugural US report (rather than it being a formal index of innovative US law firms). …
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European Lawyers: Collaborating or Stagnating post the Crisis? 22 Oct 2010

The FT’s investigation into innovation in the European legal industry is now in its fifth year. Last year we covered the lawyers’ role in the credit crisis, an extreme set of circumstances in which the lawyers took centre stage. We called the 2009 report the ‘Change’ issue as many commentators predicted that the crisis would accelerate fundamental change in the profession. Were they right? Has the legal profession answered the challenge of one of the severest economic crises since the Great Depression or is it back to business as usual? …
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The Global Threat to Spanish Tradition 22 Oct 2010

Big might be beautiful but it is by no means innovative. Now in its fifth year of publication, The Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report continues to reward European law firms for proactive originality irrespective of transaction size.  This levelling approach has continually seen the international law firm Eversheds and regional firm Wragge & Co disrupt the traditional dominance of the UK’s magic circle firms at the top of the FT Law 50, the accompanying table of the most Innovative European Law firms. The same, however, cannot be said of Spain. …
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Korea Leaves Legal India Behind 14 Oct 2010

Now that Seoul has been added to the list of Asian cities open to international lawyers, how long can Delhi and Mumbai afford to be kept off the Asian Grand Tour by India’s closed legal market? …
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