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FT Innovative Lawyers Report 2011 – Boldness

In 2011, the Financial Times and RSG Consulting will ramp up their investigation into innovation in the European legal profession. How is the industry responding to economic and structural change? Where are the big ideas and who are the front-runners in the profession?

The theme of the 2011 FT report is “bold thinking”


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Who is Europe’s most consistently innovative law firm?

The beginning of the new year is when everyone at RSG Consulting and the FT starts to think about the themes and contents for this year’s European Innovative Lawyers Report. But before we get too immersed in legal trends and innovation forecasting, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the firms who have been the most consistent performers since 2007, when the FT Law 50 began ranking firms on the basis of – amongst other things – their overall performance in the Report.

Therefore, for academic interest only, the most consistent law firm over the previous four years is….
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The Global Threat to Spanish Tradition

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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