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Mutiny on the buses
2/07/2007
Following on from its previous blog post, the Daily Diary is proud to bring you these exclusive (well, perhaps not) scenes of unrestrained hedonism and debauchery courtesy of the already-infamous SJ Berwin party bus, which is trawling acros the country...AmBushed!
3/07/2007
The war on terror claimed another victim last month – with one leading Italian firm ‘forced’ to cancel its partnership meeting after a flying visit to the country by George W Bush.Insiders suggest the firm thought so much disruption would...Norton rodents
4/07/2007
Recent press reports have revealed how lawyers at Norton Rose and LG – whose buildings face one another at the shiny More London development – have been sending saucy signals to one another via handwritten messages stuck to office windows.While...The house of David
10/07/2007
The Diary has noticed before the abundance of Davids in the upper echelons of commercial law – with Messrs Childs, Cheyne, Morley, Harris, Frank, Gray and Gold all occupying senior managerial roles at their respective top 10 legal Goliaths.New research...Diary picture special: A nightmare on Chaffe Street
11/07/2007
The Bar Standards Board last month decided it was okay for barristers to blag work off drunk solicitors in a ruling that also means law firms won’t have to return all those branded pens, umbrellas and BMWs given out by...Photo shoot tempts phate
12/07/2007
Last week the Bar Council issued its subjects with an urgent photo-call to arms as the body goes into inclusivity overdrive. On 27 July, the Council will be holding a photo-shoot with volunteers posing for a range of snaps for...Top of the P+Ps
17/07/2007
Freshfields is not the only German firm divided by political infighting this week, with Teutonic M&A boutique P+P Pollarth currently wrestling with some weighty internal issues of its own.While the north-south divide in England is easily explained – you just...To Russia with love
19/07/2007
Doing business in Russia is far from easy, judging by the regular reports The Diary hears of hapless associates being carjacked by marauding Cossacks (well, Muscovite gangsters).But safety concerns haven’t stopped Anglo-Saxon invaders going where Napoleon couldn’t and marching into...Krossed swords at Kanary Wharf
23/07/2007
It’s a well known fact that law firms supplying superior baked goods to their lawyers have cheerier (if less streamlined) staff.Such morale-management is not without its pitfalls, however. Mere weeks after The Diary lifted the lid on some chocolate-chip controversy...Condoms condemned
24/07/2007
For all the convergence between UK and US rivals – similar profits, closing salaries and identical use of marketing speak – culture clashes can still crop up in the London offices of American law firms.The shocked chairman of one US...Ashurst’s emotional roller-coaster
26/07/2007
Tales among deal lawyers of lost weekends, cancelled holidays and days on end without sleep are far from rare, so it is encouraging to hear that not all City big-shots take things quite so seriously.But when a firm’s clients include...Grapes of wrath
31/07/2007
The practice of giving deals exciting-sounding codenames is far from new, as lawyers labour to inject some fun into yet another soul-crushing all-nighter. Now, however, it seems some crafty City types are using the ruse to milk clients for all...
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