MERGERS

Article source: Do law firm mergers actually work? Listen now: In this episode, we’re joined by Robert Millard, founder of Cambridge Strategy Group and one of the leading thinkers on law firm strategy and mergers. Robert’s route into the legal industry is anything but...

How will AI-induced disruption in medium to large B2B law firms play out in coming years? Can lessons on this be learned in Netflix and Paramount’s competing bids for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)? The deal To recap briefly: In early December 2025, Netflix agreed to...

An Insidious Threat By the end of 2025, the torrent of uncannily crafted yet deeply mediocre AI-generated content engulfing us had swelled to a tidal wave. It is therefore unsurprising that the editors of Merriam-Webster chose “slop” (being “digital content of low...

Almost everybody who is involved with business strategy and transformation knows of Clayton Christensen and his theory of disruptive innovation. This theory explains how simpler, much cheaper products or services enter a market, usually from small,...

Thursday last week saw the 9th IBA Law Firm Management Committee (LFMC)’s “Building the Law Firm of the Future” conference, held at the Law Society in London. It was the 10th conference in the series, actually, if we count the one that we delivered in New York City in...

The A&M Shearman and HSF Kramer mergers, amongst others, seem to have re-ignited debate about whether the legal sector is experiencing industry consolidation. The inimitable Bruce MacEwen posits that this is so, citing ever-increasing revenues concentrating into...