Lifting the blinkers - life outside London
It may come as a surprise to a few of our younger readers, but there is legal life outside the capital. Whilst the very largest deals and biggest salaries remain the preserve of the Magic Circle and the City's increasing horde of US firms, there is also a very healthy living and excellent quality of work to be found outside EC1. Increasingly, high profile corporate transactions, the larger commercial deals and more complex property developments are being farmed out by cost conscious blue chip companies to the bigger regional and national law firms; recognising the latter's increasing sophistication and capacity to deal with this type of work.
