Daily Diary

Childsy and the great glass elevator

Posted 12/12/2006 by legalweekblogs.com SU

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 one Friday.

Various CC heavyweights including London head honcho Jeremy Sandelson and securitisation chief Kevin Ingram were queuing up to land their 15 minutes of fame inside a specially prepared see-through cabinet - all in aid of charity, as you may have guessed, rather than simply to alleviate the tedium of actually billing this close to the holidays.

The two-hour event was scheduled to raise a bundle of cash for the Richard House Children's Hospice, which it seems is something of a cause celebre in the City these days (see previous uproarious entry).

While inadvertently injecting extra transparency into the managerial process, insiders suggest the 'Boss in the Box' exercise was also a cunningly-disguised critique on the multi-dimensional glass ceiling, walls and floor experienced by female lawyers with managerial ambitions at City law firms.

A CC partner is impressed with his new
high-privacy office, complete with Chinese walls