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Sir Nigel gets nasty

Posted 17/09/2007 by The Daily Diary

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 edition – was reacting to the findings of this organ’s latest Assistant Report when he revealed precisely where legal hacks fit into the fee earning firmament.

“If you aren’t going to make it at Slaughters, you become a partner at another firm,” he explained. “If you can’t do that, you go in-house. And if you can’t do that, well… you become a legal journalist.”

Ouch.