Lovells profiteering on the current climate

At Image by Grant MacDonald via Flickrlast there's some good news for those of us in the legal tech/publishing industry, it seems Lovells have magaged a 15% increase in first half revenue. They claim to have acheived this through "The firm's undoubted strengths in counter-cyclical areas, such as litigation and restructuring". There is hope and thankfully what some people in the industry have been saying is coming true, that the decline in some practice areas may largely be off set by increase in practice areas such as these. I wonder if Lovells might also be looking at gobbling up a firm whose core practice areas are struggling to try and boost themselves into the top four when the up turn comes?

Other interesting points in the article are that Clifford Chance and Freshfields won't be releasing their first-half results and Norton Rose has acheived 11% growth.

The article in general makes me feel much better despite the dark mornings and evenings as winter fast approaches.