SPECIAL REPORTS
Search FT.com
All times are London time
Resources
Search
for law firmsAll rankings
- FT Law 50 2009
- Billing and fees - litigation financing 2009
- Billing and Fees 2009
- Changing the rules 2009
- Client Service 2009
- Continental European Firms 2009
- Dispute Resolution - credit crisis 2009
- Dispute Resolution - non credit crisis 2009
- Energy 2009
- Financial Crisis and the downturn 2009
- Financial Services - Islamic finance 2009
- Financial Services - Longevity risk and mortgages 2009
- Financial Services 2009
- Fraud 2009
- Government 2009
- In-House Lawyers 2009
- Law firm management 2009
- Resourcing 2009
- US Financial Crisis and the downturn 2009
- FT Law 50 2008
- Finance 2008
- Fraud 2008
- Management 2008
- Marketing & PR 2008
- Publishing 2008
- Real Estate 2008
- Responsible Business 2008
- Technology & Know-How 2008
- Top 10 US Law Firms In Europe For Innovation In Expansion 2008
- Billing and Fees 2008
- Client Service 2008
- Commercial 2008
- Continental European Firms 2008
- Corporate 2008
- Corporate- Europe 2008
- Dispute Resolution 2008
- Diversity 2008
- Human Resources 2008
- In-House Lawyers 2008
- Public-Private Partnership 2008
CMS Cameron McKennaBilling and Fees 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Standout |
| Innovation | Changing the hourly billing culture |
| Originality | 8 |
| Rationale | 8 |
| Impact | 4 |
| Total | 20 |
| Description | A long-term internal education scheme to alter the ethos of the firm and break down ingrained opposition to alternative fee structures |
Dispute Resolution - non credit crisis 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Using novel methods of service to track down an evasive businessman in China |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | The firm obtained an unprecedented order to serve notice of proceedings on a litigant via email, avoiding potentially lengthy and uncertain diplomatic negotiations |
Dispute Resolution - non credit crisis 2009 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Influencing legal developments in the Jackson review of civil litigation costs |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 4 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | The firm has gone a step further than its peers in contributing to the debate on civil justice systems via sponsorship of a five year research programme on European civil justice at Oxford |
Energy 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | Structuring a joint venture between two power rivals |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 20 |
| Description | Negotiating an agreement between RWE and Eon, the energy companies. By extensively stress-testing all the outcomes, the firm played a quasi in-house role to ensure success |
Energy 2009 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | A programme to upgrade the oil refinery at the heart of Gdansk's economy |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | Partner Alex Doughty, an ex-investment banker, took on a pivotal role to enable the re-financing of the LOTOS refinery |
Energy 2009 (3)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Beatice oil field |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 5 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | The firm advised Talisman Energy on a £10 million lease arrangement for the Beatrice oil field and the Nigg oil terminal, thus saving the oil field for the foreseeable future |
- * Minimum delay 15 minutes
All times are London time
- Advertise with the FT
- Media centre
- FT Newspaper subscriptions
- FT Conferences
- FT Syndication
- Corporate subscriptions
- FT Group
- Careers at the FT
- Partner sites: Chinese FT.com
- The Mergermarket Group
- Investors Chronicle
- Exec-Appointments.com
- Money Media
- The Banker
- fDi Intelligence
- MBA-Direct.com
- The Non-Executive Director
- © Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2009. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd. Privacy policy
- Terms