We are taught in school that 1+1=2. Simple maths. However, as Mark Twain said: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” In spite of its best efforts, economics is not a mathematically based science. It is the study of human behaviour, either en masse – companies, countries, communities – or individually. People […]

Briefing will be having a regular brief rummage in Peer Monitor’s legal business ‘basket’ to pick out some of its most telling benchmark data pieces. Where do they point for market trends and law firm management? This month, how did the Peer Monitor index find global US-based law firm productivity fared in the second quarter […]

So, summer seems to be rather cementing its reputation as the season for eye-catching legal business tie-ups that might just point to larger transformation of our community. Last year we had the EY Riverview Law combination excitedly interrupt our icecreams. This year ‘traditional’ legal got in there, with Simmons & Simmons snapping up ‘legal engineering’ […]