The spectacular demise of the dotcom era spawned countless tales of corporate woe. The resulting impact on the legal community – most evident among the leading technology specialists of the US West Coast – are also well-documented. Similarly, it has been a testing period for the many, disparate law firms operating in the Thames Valley.
The region has long been famous for its status as home to companies such as Oracle and Microsoft in Reading and mobile phone giant Vodafone in Newbury; it has similarly suffered from the global downturn in its core technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector.
