Making it BIG

They’re the questions of our times, at least in legal: Can law firms scale? Can they become global or major international businesses? And what will they
look like when they do?

To answer these most pressing of questions we turned to one of the people who’s had to deal with whatever challenges come out of those conundrums, or will have to: Amanda Burton, COO at Clifford Chance. I’m not going to plug the interview on p6 here – start reading it and you’ll see why I don’t need to.

DIRECTING, CHANGING, LEADING: THE LEGAL COO COMES OF AGE

Rupert White talks to one of the most important business services people in one of the biggest firms in the world – Amanda Burton, COO at Clifford Chance – about growing pains, delivering a law firm’s culture worldwide, institutionalising client relationships, whether partnerships can go global – and Gerald Ratner

BIG IN JAPAN AND CHINA, BRAZIL, SOUTH KOREA, RUSSIA, EUROPE, SINGAPORE, AUSTRALASIA, THE US…

Polly Botsford finds out what it takes to be big in tomorrow’s global legal market, asks how strategy can be implemented as well as created, looks under the carpet of the verein business structure, finds out why outsourcing is still very much alive… and invents a new word into the bargain

GROWING GLOBAL

Briefing speaks to David Lieu, vice-president for corporate development, strategy and international growth at Thomson Reuters Elite, about growing globally, how to find the growth legal markets and what to do when you get there