Disputes Yearbook 2024 – Best case scenarios
Scaling up: a look back at the last ten years of disputes in London
When Legal Business first launched its Disputes Yearbook back in 2014 Brexit was barely on the radar, most people had not heard of Wuhan and post-financial crisis disputes work and oligarchs were helping firms cast aside any doubts about how sustainable further disputes growth was at either the biggest players in the City or the …
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Disputes Yearbook 2024 – online PDF
Please see below for a link to an online pdf of the Disputes Yearbook 2024.
Debate winners – which disputes teams are best at making their case to the Legal 500?
Disputes is one of the broadest areas of work covered by the Legal 500; while commercial litigation accounts for over half of all of our disputes rankings, a diverse range of specialisms also fall under the disputes umbrella, from professional discipline and commodities to debt recovery and costs.
Disputes Yearbook 2024 – Editor’s Letter
Welcome to the latest edition of the Disputes Yearbook from the Legal 500 and Legal Business; a special edition marking ten years of our annual guide to all things contentious, and a must-read for every self-respecting litigator. This supplement brings together analysis of the key issues facing disputes lawyers, interviews with senior figures in the …
Disputes perspectives: Adrian Chopin
When I was nine years old, an elderly relative told me I should consider being a lawyer because I was an argumentative brat. On that flimsy basis I studied law with German law. For my first year, I hated the subject – everything had come easily to me at school but this new thing required …
Disputes perspectives: Kate Davies KC
I didn’t really decide to be a lawyer, the law chose me. I went to a wedding and sat next to a very nice man. He turned out to be a partner in a law firm and we talked career options all night. He gave me his business card and said to call him. I …
Disputes perspectives: Sherina Petit
I am the third generation in my family to have taken up law, following in the footsteps of my grandfather and father. My father was a partner at one of the top law firms in Mumbai and some of my best memories are of sitting in his office during school summer holidays, listening to him …
Financial Regulatory and Disputes Summit: Stranger than fiction
Even amid a stellar agenda at Legal Business’ Financial Regulatory and Disputes Summit 2023 last November, CMS’ session – Shams and charades: Lessons learned from abusive litigation against banks – made shockwaves around the auditorium of the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London’s Westminster. Indeed, it’s not often that a panel discussion elicits gasps of …
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Disputes Yearbook 2023: Bench strength revisited
