For five years, DWF operated two ‘headquarter offices’ in Manchester, comprising 98,000 square feet of prime city centre real estate, and making us the largest Manchester-headquartered global legal business in Europe. When one lease was up, I recognised that the changing nature of the legal profession, combined with DWF’s commitment to doing things differently, presented […]

Shilpa Bhandarkar returns to Linklaters as the firm’s first head of innovation. She gives us an early break down of the role and her big lessons from work in the outside world. Leading the central team responsible for catalysing innovation across all Linklaters offices and practices, Shilpa Bhandarkar says there are three key responsibilities within […]

Buzzwords come and go so frequently we often don’t even recognise their demise. Remember when big data was all the rage? Yeah … me neither. Or how about SaaS ? That seems to have morphed into the cloud … which I’m sure will be a foggy memory before long too. Personally, I’m anxiously awaiting the […]