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Delay it again, Sam
3/09/2007
Keeping to deadlines is not always easy, as The Diary knows only too well. Likewise, the consultation-crazed Bar Council has been having more trouble with its timetables of late than First Great Western.On 30 August, the punctually-challenged body revealed on...Lord of the non-flyers
5/09/2007
With firms (including Simmons & Simmons) increasingly bragging about their carbon-neutral status, The Diary is impressed with those partners shunning the overseas sun and refusing to clock up the air-miles by taking their break in places like Devon or Cornwall....Head to head
7/09/2007
Tall tales reach The Diary this week of an interesting chat between the esteemed senior partner of a top City firm and the London chief of a US giant, both of whom will sadly have to remain unnamed for now...Unproductive phone call of the week
10/09/2007
You have to love the can-do, always-happy-to-help attitude of some law firm receptionists, only some of whom think they are all-powerful gatekeepers to a mystical world beyond time, space and grubby meeja oiks like The Diary...Legal Week hack to Forsters...Wragges' Russian reception
11/09/2007
Yesterday The Daily Diary paid tribute to those multi-talented custodians of law firms' telephony, the humble receptionists.Now news reaches your correspondent's Soho command bunker (from just down the road at FA headquarters on Soho Square) that Wragge & Co will...Silent partners
13/09/2007
The best lawyers are – so the consultants tell us – those who manage their contacts best. A valuable tip is to always update your contacts database when a partner switches firm, goes in-house, leaves the profession… or dies. Folks...Sir Nigel gets nasty
17/09/2007
The Diary was left in no doubt over its place in the legal hierarchy recently as Sir Nigel of Boardman rammed a fistful of common sense straight down your correspondent’s grateful throat.Sir Nigel – cover star of Legal Week’s current...Level 42
18/09/2007
It’s a common misconception that the in-house world is a soft touch compared to the ferocious, cut-throat environment of private practice. Not so, however, if you plan to go rub pinstripes in the elevator with the bankers of Goldman Sachs.Getting...Sandwich man stumps Spanish
20/09/2007
Perhaps it’s an upbringing amid the dreaming spires of Oxford and ivory towers of Cambridge, but top City lawyers are often just as useless as the rest of us when it comes to dealing with those awkward practicalities in everyday...Scots rugger buggers get smugger
21/09/2007
Thus far, the home nations have not exactly covered themselves in glory at the Rugby World Cup, having laboured to patience-sapping wins against the likes of Portugal and Georgia while losing to any teams from countries that have actually played...Homeland security
24/09/2007
The Diary was recently dispatched on a covert operation to take some snaps for the Legal Week photo library. Covert because the ultra-sensitivity of some City firms to having their picture taken reminds one of those tribes that believe taking...Last of the summer wine
26/09/2007
With the dust having hardly settled on the bombshell of Big Bill Charnley’s move from his troubled Chicago firm to another troubled Chicago firm with a different name, The Diary was intrigued to discover the ex-McDermott Will & Emery man...
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