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Below are a selection of my pieces from Chambers Magazine, the quarterly journal of the legal market from Chambers and Partners, and from my blog.

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From Chambers Magazine:

The Trials of Clifford Chance

David Childs spent seven years quietly striving to modernise Clifford Chance and raise its profitability. Then Lehman Brothers collapsed. 

Tougher Than Ever: Clients take the offensive

The recession has put clients in the driving seat in their relationships with law firms – and they are demanding changes.

The Sector Specialisation Survey

Lawyers nowadays claim to specialise in particular industries almost as often as in particular practice areas. But are firms really taking this strategy seriously? And what are the risks – and rewards – of industry specialisms?

Walking the Line: Lovells’ battle between performance and collegiality

How can law firms raise their standards and profits without sacrificing their partnership culture? Renowned for its friendliness but prone to financial underperformance, Lovells has battled to strike the balance.

From the blog:

An oil-man through and through

While the critical acclaim for PT Anderson’s There Will Be Blood may focus on Daniel Day-Lewis’ studiedly epic performance as oiligarch Daniel Plainview, or Johnny Greenwood’s remarkable, discomfiting soundtrack, much of the film’s cultural resonance may lie in its echoes in modern American politics.

The Horse Shit Hypothesis

There are various ways in which we can hope to intervene to reduce the climate dangers inherent in our current level of economic activity. One way is to reduce the carbon emissions required for energy production, through renewable energy; another is to mitigate the effects of carbon emissions, through carbon sinks, harvesters, or, yes, giant space mirrors. But there’s a whole other area of intervention – reducing the actual amount of economic activity involved in modern life. 

Obama and the other Kennedy

Ever since Barack Obama emerged as a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination commentators have been falling over themselves to evoke the memory of John F. Kennedy… The truth is, though, that John F. Kennedy and Obama came from very different places politically – and had very different concepts of “change”.

Democracy 2.0 (also published in The London Paper)

In a faraway domain, a fragile democracy is fighting for survival. Everyday we watch on our screens it struggles to maintain order amongst chaos and defend its day-to-day operations against dissent and malicious attacks. What? No, not Iraq! I’m talking about Wikipedia.