European office take-up by law firms was a total of 164,000 m[sup]2[/sup] over the six months to March 2008, according to the latest EMEA Legal Business Briefing of global real estate consultant C&W. This figure is up 3% up on the previous half year, and compares favourably with the 7% overall fall in office space leased across Europe's 16 major legal centres monitored.