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LawSoc' stationery statute
1/03/2007
Nabarro Natha-- sorry, Nabarro…wow, this is going to take some getting used to... is not the only City firm that will be sensationally overhauling its headed letter paper in a radical stationery revamp.An advisory dispatch from Chancery Lane last week...Diary managerial masterclass...with Simon Johnston
2/03/2007
8. Brand on the run. Does anything get the pulse racing quite like a re-branding exercise? What’s that you say? A £20bn buy-out with more leverage than a DLA Piper associate conference? Perhaps for you, sunshine. But not in the...Audrey tattoo
5/03/2007
Law firm managers looking for ways of keeping their associates from leaving the profession – other than bolting the door and covering the office in a Chernobyl-style concrete sarcophagus – should look no further than their humble tea lady.Channel Islands...Spiked: Law leaders to save world with puff-neutral revolution
6/03/2007
Spiked: the Legal Week scoops that didn't quite make itLaw leaders to save world with puff-neutral revolutionBy Arlex WrightereseA growing number of top UK law firms are going puff-neutral, according to new research that shows the legal profession has become...You’ve got (an indeterminate amount of) mail
7/03/2007
Even for battle-hardened Legal Week hacks, trying to get reliable information on the opaque-as-ever QC applications process is as easy as storming Fort Knox armed with a spoon.“I know how many brown envelops we have,” the head of the appointment...On a whinge and a prayer
8/03/2007
In the days when every associate whinge is instantly chronicled in discussion boards, interactive blogs and hyperactive podcasts, it can be hard to unearth a genuinely fresh lawyer moan of real quality.Like avid record collectors who bemoan iTunes, connoisseurs of...A giant leap for Gomez-Acebo
9/03/2007
Lawyers at top Spanish indie Gomez-Acebo & Pombo were ole-ing in triumph last week after one of their own, Carlota Castrejana, claimed gold in the triple jump at the European Indoor Athletics Championship in exotic Birmingham.Castrejana hopped, skipped and jumped...Leveraged levity at Sullivan's expense
12/03/2007
If you are getting sick of reading the escalating pile of poor-me-City-law blogs, surely nothing could be finer than reading about some other professionals' lives, especially if they’re making 10 times as much cash as lawyers but are just a...Facial discrimination
13/03/2007
Partner retreats are not all fun and games – a precious weekend spent talking lockstep away from the family, holed up in some five-star executive prison. But while the tedium is to be expected, perhaps less so was the ritual...Bald to be wild
14/03/2007
They say a change is as good as a rest – but even better, surely, if you can get both.One City partner recently returned from a two-week ‘holiday’ in Paris sporting a rather fetching new hairstyle – much to the...Meeting room with a view
15/03/2007
The true motive behind Olswang's office move from Long Acre to Holborn has been revealed.The Diary was recently discussing yet another stardust-sprinkled media deal with a partner from the not-quite-as-trendy-as-it-used-to-be City outfit when he abruptly glazed over with the thousand-yard...Diary managerial masterclass...with Guy Beringer
16/03/2007
10. A PEP in the right direction So, I see Freshfields is going down the same old road as Linklaters a year or two ago, gently nudging its veteran partners through the open 15th-floor window of retirement and ushering in a...Pastures new
19/03/2007
The Diary heard a new reason for a City partner relocating to the countryside last week – thankfully one that didn’t involve the stunning quality of legal work available in the Cotswolds, Outer Hebrides or Birmingham.Similarly, you seldom hear parents...The website for a discriminating audience
20/03/2007
Just in case it’s been an entire week since an alarmist law firm missive about discrimination legislation landed with a dull thud in your inbox, an exciting new alternative is (very nearly) now available.Civic-minded folk at Brabners Chaffe Street have...A&O spikes it lucky
22/03/2007
As partners at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer continue to find out the hard way that ‘P45’ does not refer to a new brand of hand-cream, Allen & Overy (A&O) has found alternative ways of motivating under-performing fee-monkeys.Not unlike the grisly sight...One million years QC
23/03/2007
While it has been noted in the past that global climates change faster than things at the Bar, at least one top set has acted recently to foster an appearance of relative modernity.Barristers at 3-4 South Square were confronted by...Links' springtime hijinks
26/03/2007
Is it just The Diary that thinks Linklaters is going soft?First new managing partner Simon Davies gets all misty-eyed talking about things like part-time working and getting in touch with the younger generation (even younger than him, that is).Now the...Man and woman thing is all Greek
28/03/2007
The Diary has started a watching brief for those rare legal blogs that don’t descend into 'poor me' whinging from City lawyers and so has turned once more to the always-readable Corporate Blawg.The latest installment of the law blogs that...
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