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Diary dispute focus: Shambo’s last tango
1/08/2007
Who says litigation is dead? Certainly no-one at Brick Court Chambers, which found itself at the centre of a very public row over the fate of a very sacred cow.Shambo the Temple Bull, beloved of worshippers at the Community for...I donut believe it
2/08/2007
The Diary likes nothing more than to detonate a journalistic time-bomb with its latest sensational scoop and wait for the inevitable fallout to come raining down in great acrimonious gobbets.Recently this column revealed how Krispy Kreme donuts donated by clients...Transylvanian families
6/08/2007
What are trainees for? Okay, so The Diary can think of a thousand unprintable answers City partners might offer to that question but at Addleshaw Goddard the answer is… bricklaying.The gritty Madchester outfit is sending this September’s intake of trainees...Hun, drawn and quartered
8/08/2007
Few would dispute that the spate of Anglo-German mergers in the last decade has helped foster more cordial relations between the two Saxon nations – although perhaps not if you ask those Linklaters alumni spirited out the back exit a...Black sabbatical
10/08/2007
Summertime (you know, the muggy bit between downpours of biblical severity) is here and that means sabbatical season. Big-hitters including Linklaters capital markets chief Nick Eastwell and Slaughter and May corporate sharpshooter Andy Ryde are among those taking an extended...City chief's cattle battle
29/08/2007
With news breaking last week that Freshfields will face its second retirement-themed face-off with a former partner in December, it was refreshing for The Diary to hear from the City chief of another major firm whose retirement plans don’t involve...Don’t panda to him
31/08/2007
Strange goings-on at Simmons & Simmons, which has underlined yet again its green credentials by providing an unusual habitat for rare and endangered species (no, not high-billing Simmons partners).The Diary hears how regular sightings of a magnificent giant panda have...
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