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Breaking up is never easy
2/04/2007
You don’t have to be Deidre Sanders, world-famous agony aunt at The Sun, to know that relationships are hard work. However, UK law firms are seemingly more prone to domestic dingdongs than most. Like an over-possessive partner, the UK firm...Diary Top 10: Go your own way
2/04/2007
Back by unpopular demand, The Diary’s (very) occasional ‘Top 10’ feature returns with the semi-score most popular reasons this week for ditching your international alliance to conquer Europe alone.To look ruthless in front of major corporate clientGot drunk and thought...They shoot lawyers, don't they?
3/04/2007
For the purposes of this slightly forced post, elite racehorses and City lawyers have plenty in common. Highly-strung thoroughbreds that respond in different measures to carrot and stick, effortlessly vaulting hurdles – hedge-based or regulatory – only for a fat...Addleshaws finds a monster in its midst
4/04/2007
Ah, the joys of the indiscreet email. Ketchup-gate, yum-gate, padding-gate... and now fart-gate.Addleshaw Goddard is the latest firm to be rocked by the seismic consequences of a hasty email, The Diary can exclusively reveal, after one hapless member of the...Spiked: Square Mile's spurious mail throws a spammer in City works
5/04/2007
Spiked: the Legal Week scoops that didn't quite make itSquare Mile's spurious mail throws a spammer in City worksCity firms are set to crack down on staff who use abuse internal email systems following new research that suggests as much...Dundas' pod squad
11/04/2007
With the last of the Easter eggs congealing happily in the springtime sunshine, Caledonian legal royalty Dundas & Wilson has hatched an equally tempting technological treat.The canny Scots firm already offers online seminars (or ‘webinars’, if you wish to help...Bar Council joins the e-volution
12/04/2007
Another week, another innovation as the Bar continues to modernise itself with all the conviction of a middle-aged divorcee squeezing into her daughter’s size-zero Top Shop crop-top.The venerable body this week launched its brand spanking new website in a move...You rang, m'lud?
13/04/2007
It’s official: judges are out of touch – with each other, anyway. Which is why a new telephone helpline is being set up to help brow-beaten benchers combat the emotional stress of listening to lawyers bicker endlessly over which comma...Dealmaker's PA: Karen Bertram
16/04/2007
From the people who brought you the Cheese Survey (and Nigel Boardman)…While it is true that Sir Nigel of Slaughters has on occasion had a strained relationship with The Diary (long-time readers may recall the infamous Law Society ‘hero’ spoof),...Chain reaction
17/04/2007
Not normally one to take the softly, softly approach when a blunderbuss mounted on a war elephant will do, Legal Services Nemesis Zahida Manzoor today got surprisingly flirty with the Legal Complaints Service – formerly the complaints-handling arm of the...Pageant provocateur
18/04/2007
It must be nice to take real pride in your work. Knowing you have helped keep a former dictator responsible for the deaths of thousands out of jail, say, must really give you a warm inner glow on a chilly...Crèche test dummies
20/04/2007
The latest bid by a law firm to up its cuddliness count and offer lawyers and employees better work-life balance comes from magic circle giant Clifford Chance (CC).The City titan has just unveiled its new state-of-the-art crèche in its Frankfurt...Lyndon marathon
23/04/2007
With countless City lawyers this week (22 April) running the London Marathon – including Linklaters’ Tony Angel – for some a gentle 26-mile jog across the capital is no longer challenge enough.Step forward Kirkland & Ellis London restructuring partner Lyndon...The Daily Diary is 100!
24/04/2007
The Daily Diary is 100 today!Yup, this is the hundredth post since your one-stop gossip shop went all modern and digital (although one or two previous posts may have disappeared from the site for, erm, legal reasons). And what better...Spiked: Completely inevitable City law strike to utterly paralyse UK
25/04/2007
Spiked: the Legal Week scoops that didn't quite make it Completely inevitable City law strike to utterly paralyse UKBy Harlex WrightareseMounting fears have been raised that the UK could be paralysed by a shock strike of poverty-stricken City lawyers, as the Square...Breast in show
27/04/2007
Despite the best efforts of City HR teams to train up old-fashioned male partners into something resembling open-minded human beings, you don’t have to have been patted on your behind and called ‘toots’ by the senior partner to know sexism...Prior warning
30/04/2007
Last week Legal Week sensationally revealed that high-class clean-up clinic The Priory has identified stressed-out lawyers as a promising new revenue stream, meaning deal junkies can join actual junkies to play table-tennis, stare blankly out the window for hours on...
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