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Legal Week Awards 2006: Picture showcase
4/12/2006
For your delecatation, The Diary can hereby bring you exclusive pictures of the most glittering legal occasion since Liberace sued The Daily Mirror for implying he was gay - the Legal Week Awards 2006. See if you can spot your...Heroes and villains
6/12/2006
As the festive season hurtles towards us, partners are busying themselves with various pressing matters, such how to ensure their deals are tied up before Christmas Day so they aren’t threatened with divorce by irate spouses – again. However, one...Blue none
7/12/2006
As demonstrated conclusively at the recent Legal Week Awards, property lawyers (and their clients) have a well-deserved reputation as hard-drinking party animals. Field Fisher Waterhouse therefore opted to take no chances for its recent no-expense-spared real estate party at the...Party. Hard
8/12/2006
Christmas is a time for cheer, unless you’re a City solicitor - when, of course, it is time for whinging about the office party. The Diary’s personal favourite piece of legal humbug is Stephenson Harwood’s now-legendary decision in 2001 to...Diary Christmas promotion: because you're worth it
11/12/2006
Feeling frumpy? Out of date? Is your look more ‘hicks from the sticks’ than ‘Sex and the City’? Then you need new Head of Corporate from Laboratoire Burges S’Almon. Head of Corporate has been clinically proven to give you better...Childsy and the great glass elevator
12/12/2006
Bosses at Clifford Chance (CC) were boxing clever last week (8 December) in the latest and (perhaps...okay not quite) wackiest example of anarchic fund-raising in the law since the SJ Berwin formation boys thought they'd knock off early at 10pm...Chambers braced for canapes crackdown
13/12/2006
Thank heavens for the Bar Standards Board (BSB). If it wasn’t for the firm hand of the recently-formed regulator, the Bar might be in all kinds of trouble by now – plummeting levels of work, say, an almost incestuous reliance...Deck the halls...
18/12/2006
In case you were wondering how to spend your free time this Christmas (especially for those long-suffering associates at top 20 City firms for whom time out of the office is a novelty) you could do worse than learn from...
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