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2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - January
8/01/2008
Last January The Diary sensationally predicted that Dewey and LeBoeuf would become Dewey & LeBoeuf, global financial markets would go into meltdown and Alesha would beat that smarmy orange chap in the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Sadly, none of...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - February
9/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen. FebruaryFresh controversy over the Carter reforms resurfaces when veteran pop strumpet Madonna adopts a legal aid lawyer.“They are so totally cute,” the claw-handed chanteuse confides to Cosmopolitan....2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - March
10/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.MarchSecurity personnel at Freshfields are on high-alert as sources suggest the Grey Panthers crime syndicate masterminded by former partner and arch nemesis Peter Bloxham – aka Doktor...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - April
11/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.AprilMedia it-boys and occasional lawyers Mark Stephens and Nigel Knowles step into the sequinned stilettos of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie for the latest series of MTV...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - May
14/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.MayMutiny threatens to erupt at Atlantic House as furious Lovells partners realise they are almost mid-way through the year with no sign of a new lockstep review...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - June
15/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen. June The dreaded summer slowdown hits two months early, making conditions so sluggish the market actually goes into reverse. Countless companies spontaneously de-merge and start demanding their...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - July
16/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen. JulyWith the Three Lions failing to quality for the European Championships, Tim Henman having retired from bottling it at Wimbledon and the England cricket team rubbish again...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - August
17/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.AugustAllen & Overy completes its reinvention from fun-starved fee factory to Hacienda-style temple of love with the news that every A&O fee earner will get to have...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - September
18/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen. SeptemberCelebrations break out at the Bar Council as the body announces its thousandth consultation of the last 12 months – earning a mystery prize for council president...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - October
21/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.OctoberClass action specialist Cohen Millstein Hausfeld & Toll goes on the warpath, declaring its intention to sue every member of the UK public after the long-anticipated deluge...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - November
22/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.NovemberIndependent candidate Paul Maher sees off Democrat rival Barack Obama and fundamentalist nut-job Mike Huckabee to be named the 44th President of the United States, becoming the...2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - December
23/01/2008
Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.DecemberLord Chancellor Jack ‘Clutching at’ Straw is forced to deny accusations that the Ministry of Justice has proved expensive, unwieldy and slow to respond to market developments.“We’re...Diary Managerial Masterclass - Chris Mort
25/01/2008
If there’s one position more high-profile than being a partner at the UK’s most accident-prone law firm (Freshfields ousted Hammonds from that position some time in the middle of last year), it’s running a Premiership football club. So there could...I, replicant
29/01/2008
In the week Hollywood celebrated the Oscar nominations but mourned the loss of Heath Ledger, a new cinematic star was streaking across the firmament.A hearty Diary shout-out to multitalented Herbert Smith partner Chris Fanner, who took time out from financing...Divorced from reality
30/01/2008
A big thumbs-up to star Legal Village blogger Mike Semple Piggot, who alerted your correspondent to the excellent work of Fetman Garland & Associates partner Corri Fetman – aka the Lawyer of Love in esteemed legal journal Playboy.The famously upfront...
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