I spied a small piece in the Standard the other day reporting on the new survey for The Architect’s Journal of the top 100 practices. It seems there are grim times in the architecture market – although the comments indicate that it is less grim that it was. It reported: Read More
The property media is buzzing this week with the news of King Sturge (master of the industrial property – sorry American readers – real estate market) becoming a part of Jones Lang LaSalle to make a combined business with 2,827 staff. Property Week focused on the state of the agency Read More
For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter (RedStarKim), I have selected some of my recent tweets which may be of interest to those in the legal, property and accountancy professions. If you want further information, you’ll need to see the sources, references and links to full articles Read More
The Lawyer magazine recently wrote “The Magic Circle is redrawn…Clifford Chance relegated to third place…Lovells set to overtake Slaughter & May”. It showed the top 20 in terms of 2009 revenues as follows: Rank Firm 09Rev(£m)08Rev(£m)PEP 2009(£K) 1 Linklaters 1,298 1,293 1,302 2 Freshfields 1,287 1,178 1,440 3 Clifford Chance Read More
Some research identified during a recent PEST (Political Economic Sociological and Technological) analysis suggested that the traditional family life cycle model has broken down: Graduates are blue – Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that 21,000 graduates who finished first degrees last year were still out of work Read More