Editor's letter

Welcome to the December/January issue of FD Legal. I trust you are all suitably toasty under piles of Christmas cards and party invitations, clutching your steaming mugs of mulled wine enjoying the dulcet tones of Bing Crosby in the back ground. Or maybe, like me, you are wondering where 2009 has gone and frantically attacking your reams of to-do-before-the-holidays lists! The consensus seems to be that the lead up to Christmas has seen busyness-levels taken to a new high. Which can only be a good thing? And an even better thing is that recent research into top 100 UK law firm finance directors1 indicates that, of those firms that participated, all firms in the top 100 have an FD or equivalent role. Back-office function? I think not!