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Credit where it's, er, due
1/05/2007
Partners taking credit for associates’ work is nothing new, of course, although senior bods intent on hogging the limelight should at least make the effort to remember what it is they are supposed to have done.In conversation with one City-based...Pull the other one
2/05/2007
Today’s pictures come from last month’s sports day at the York branch of the College of Law, held in typically balmy northern sunshine on 28 April.Pictured are teams from Leeds powerhouse Walker Morris (below) and national leviathan Eversheds (a bit...In the lap of the gods
4/05/2007
Ask any ambitious firm why it’s special and the chances are its partners will tell you it’s their unique attention to clients’ needs that stands them apart from all the other firms offering, er, unique attention to clients’ needs.Now, however,...Yield of daydreams
9/05/2007
It’s not often The Diary gets to drop by on those crazy cats at the European High Yield Association (EHYA). And now is not one of those occasions. However, it was rather fun to hear one finance lawyer respond to...Spiked: the Legal Week scoops that didn't quite make it
10/05/2007
LG in IP argy-bargy as name-swap shame engulfs City stalwart Confusion broke out around the City this week it emerged that Korean mobile phone manufacturer LG is changing its name to Lawrence Graham in a dramatic re-branding exercise. The technology...A fatal floor in the plan
11/05/2007
Tesco may have arrived on the Algarve, but the ‘Tesco law’ concept is apparently light-years from reaching the Portuguese Bar. Word reaches The Diary that one entrepreneurial Lisbon lawyer has been accused of shaming the whole profession – by opening...Be alarmed. Be very, very alarmed
14/05/2007
Mobile phone company and sometime law firm LG was last week packing paralegals into cardboard boxes and filling partners with styrofoam before its big office move to swanky new premises in More London, where ‘elite’ City rival Norton Rose will...Habitat of a lifetime
15/05/2007
One newly-appointed City head chose the drizzly bank holiday just passed to run riot in the glassware section of Habitat, taking advantage of a 20% discount voucher in The Observer (and there was The Diary thinking City lawyers were right-wing...Walking the walk
16/05/2007
The last time hundreds of militant lawyers took to the streets it was to complain about the carpets in the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer reception (or legal aid, or something).Earlier this week (14 May), however, 1,800 of the profession’s finest were...The (dispute) resolution will be televised
18/05/2007
Last week the Bar Council announced that it is teaming up with the UK’s second-most venerable anachronism, the BBC, to produce a documentary about, you guessed it, life at the Bar.The programme is backed by funding from the Open University...Virgin’s in-house galactico
21/05/2007
Regular readers of this column will recall how NASA general counsel Mike Wholley is currently in the headlines over some alleged ‘strategic’ shredding. Now The Diary can bring you news of another stellar in-house role, this time a little closer...Diary Top 10: Manners maketh the Mintz
23/05/2007
Following the new last week that top US outfit Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo (catchy, huh?) is to brush up its solicitors’ social skills with a few tips on etiquette, the fabled Diary Top 10 returns after a...Spring cleaning at Castle Greyskull
25/05/2007
Much of the media has never quite got its collective head round the fact that some lawyers, at least nominally, are real people. Note the fascination displayed by tabloids, broadsheets and those free papers you get on the Tube whenever...Travers mountain a challenge to Ince
29/05/2007
Two intrepid/foolhardy fee earners from Travers Smith were breaking even more challenging ground than that tough City mid-market last month – planting the top 30 UK firm's flag at the top of mighty Mount Everest.Employment assistant Russ Lamb (the one...Skadden all at sea
30/05/2007
The relationship between lawyers and the fourth estate can occasionally get a little fractious. A certain hostility to the media was on display by some at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, after a handful of reprobates from the New...Spiked: the Legal Week scoops that didn't quite make it
31/05/2007
Disgracebook short of friends as staff banned from 'harmless' A&O siteBy Arlex WrightereseFacebook has been engulfed in controversy after the highly-respected social networking website this week attempted to ban staff from using Allen & Overy (A&O) while at work.The company...
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