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One hundred dinners of solitude
1/11/2007
Certain managing partners at major law firms can sometimes seem like fairly intimidating figures – not just to trembling legal hacks but also to all those at their own firm lower down the food-chain (pretty much everyone, then).Simon Davies –...Strop gear
2/11/2007
You might expect magic circle partners to compensate for all those long hours spent crossing Is and dotting Ts in a dreary office by going in for the obvious trappings of wealth – and usually you would be right.However, one...Debit where it's due
6/11/2007
Making or breaking the latest multibillion-pound deal to hit the front of business sections everywhere is bound to give some lawyers a bit of an ego-trip. Everything is relative, however, and The Diary was this week charmed to within an...Wiped out
7/11/2007
From relationship management to anger management, it’s easy to see how the stress can occasionally get the better of a put-upon City slicker. Indeed, evidence came last week that even lawyers in sleepy provincial backwaters like post-industrial Scotland can lose...Childish Giggle of the Day: Eat, drink and be Merry
9/11/2007
Lord Chancellor and ruthless dispenser of justice Jack Straw today announced the appointment of a new chair of the Employment Tribunal. Her name is Merry Cocks.Just thought you'd like to know....Something stinks
12/11/2007
CMS Cameron McKenna was showing off its green credentials last week, holding its first ever 'environment week'. Various energy and recycling big-wigs came to Camerons’ Mitre House HQ to educate its lawyers about the perils of too much photocopying and...Raging biller
14/11/2007
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer seems to have acquired an unfortunate habit of late of getting its name in the national press for stories it might well prefer not to see in print at all. While it has yet to experience its...Under the influence
16/11/2007
Projects lawyers at the City’s biggest firms might not really be feeling the love these days but there will have been at least one interested observer last month as news broke that infra king Graham Vinter was parting company with...Sticky wicket
20/11/2007
The various powers that be in India might not be playing ball when it comes to the longed-for liberalisation of the its potentially bottomless legal market, but The Diary brings proof that, for one week only, playing ball is precisely...Conviction politician
21/11/2007
With Belgium facing the traumatic prospect of being sliced in two – and the news that downing litres of mayonnaise with their chips has made the compatriots of Tin-Tin and Hercule Poirot among the fattest frites-eaters in Europe – The...Behead of legal
22/11/2007
The Diary always likes to pay groveling homage to those multi-talented lawyers that their own unique definition of value to the cultural, legal and socio-political morass. Amazingly, the superb name of Texas in-house lawyer and all-round renaissance man C Lee...US tape worms meet their match
26/11/2007
Easy ways of getting an answer to the question ‘Is the credit crunch here to stay?’ include measuring the breadth of litigators’ smiles or charting the rise in Tetris-playing skills among the associates twiddling their thumbs in finance.Bored associates at...Wedding crashers
28/11/2007
News reaches The Diary this week that crafty City welterweight Charles Russell is bringing a novel meaning to the term ‘full service’.In a cunning twist on the concept of client entertainment, the firm has taken to hosting regular wine-and-cheese evenings...
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