Law firm features - Market focus
Thursday, 12th November 2009 by Clare Bolton
Law firms in Mexico say their clients are forcing them to be much more competitive - while general counsel note that budgets for external lawyers are going nowhere but down, and they have little choice but to insist on value. In this excerpt from the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association meeting in Mexico, we look at how to bridge the gap
Wednesday, 11th November 2009 by Clare Bolton
In Mexico, the crisis has cut right across an epochal shift in the legal market, in which clients, driving for efficiency, are increasingly pitting firms against each other - and happily swapping between them. This has created the ideal setting for ferocious competition, the senior partners of Mexico’s leading firms told us at a round table
Thursday, 1st October 2009 by David Thorley
A US enclave in the middle of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico straddles the US and Latin American legal systems - but does this hybrid make it more US or Latin, asks David Thorley
Tuesday, 4th August 2009 by Rosie Cresswell
How does a lawyer protect a company in a country where the rule of law is not respected? General counsel and corporate lawyers in Venezuela describe their world to Rosie Cresswell
Wednesday, 15th July 2009 by Rosie Cresswell
Chile's economy may be rapidly slowing, but there is yet a chance the country will escape the global financial storm with only a mild squall, the country's leading general counsel tell us in the first of two roundtables
Wednesday, 3rd June 2009 by Clare Bolton
Leading practitioners based in Washington, DC discuss how politics and economics are combining to bring their city up the international agenda - and boost their practices
Tuesday, 12th May 2009 by Sebastian Perry
As US President Barack Obama unveils proposals to crack down on overseas tax havens, Sebastian Perry talks to Costa Rican lawyers about their country's efforts to improve bank transparency.
Friday, 1st May 2009 by Clare Bolton
Thanks to stable rules over 15 years and comparatively good economic figures, Peru is well-placed to withstand the ravages of the crisis, we found at a roundtable meeting of the leading law firms in Lima last December
Tuesday, 28th April 2009 by Rosie Cresswell
Now Brazil’s capital markets are a shadow of their former selves, will São Paulo keep its hold on US and UK firms, asks Rosie Cresswell
Thursday, 16th April 2009
Bolivia's new constitution reinforces the rights of the state, the Bolivian people and of individual communities - but that contains clear clashes with the status quo in the country. We convened a group of leading external and in-house lawyers to discuss just how one maintains a practice in such an environment.
Change is in the air
Friday, 6th February 2009 by Clare Bolton
Uruguay's legal market is undergoing fundamental changes, with clients pulling towards more specialised legal services and younger competitors snapping at the heels of the more established firms. How will the global economic crisis play out against this backdrop, Clare Bolton asked a recent round table.
Wednesday, 28th January 2009 by Clare Bolton
Before the crisis kicked in, Brazil was on course to be the region’s financial powerhouse. Can those ambitions survive a crisis of this magnitude, asks Clare Bolton
Tuesday, 2nd December 2008 by Clare Bolton
As developed countries watch chunks of their economies hit the wall, and panic, for the Buenos Aires firms this crisis has a long way to go before it can shake them as previous crises have done. Flexibility is all, the senior partners told us at a round table this month
Wednesday, 8th October 2008 by Clare Bolton
Central America is on the cusp of a type of international integration unseen anywhere else in the region - but with such clear political and economic differences between the countries, how real is this integration? We convened a roundtable of the region's law firm managing partners to help us find out
Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 by Clare Bolton
The logic of a Texas-based Latin America practice go far beyond energy and Mexico, we found at a roundtable with the heads of practice there
