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
A week or so ago, I was invited to the offices of Vuture by a former colleague that I had worked with many, many years ago in the property sector. With his partner, he has spent the past few years developing a kind of digital asset and content management system Read More
Thanks to all those who attended the informal launch of my book “Growing your property partnership – Plans, promotion and people” last night. I had a great time and hope everyone else did too. It was great to see so many clients and contacts from the property industry – lots Read More
The new business magazine by Grant Thornton (Elevate) carries a number of articles about innovation. Amongst the most interesting points are: • There is a new £4.5m state of the art Digital Manufacturing Centre with facilities for rapid prototyping at the Metrolopolitan Works Creative Industries Centre in London. • Larry Read More