Global Focus Drives U.K. Top 50 as Firms Weather Global Crunch

The U.K.'s top law firms have pressed through the initial onslaught of the credit crunch and defied gloomy expectations to achieve double-digit revenue growth for the third year running. 's 2007-08 results, the first finalized picture of the performance of the U.K. top 50, demonstrate how the group tapped busy foreign markets to help offset the pronounced global slowdown. Total revenue across the group rose by 14.3 percent from 10.5 billion pounds to just over 12 billion pounds.