Daily Diary

2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - January

Posted 8/01/2008 by The Daily Diary

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 those uncannily accurate forecasts made it into last year’s Guide To The Year Ahead, which was mostly a bunch of cheap gags about Nigel Boardman. Ah well.

Read on for your exclusive first glimpse of the key stories of 2008, starting today with January. February will appear tomorrow, followed by... you get the idea.

January
The year begins with post-credit crunch belt-tightening continuing apace, as Slaughter and May recruits a bunch of Polish chaps who’ll draft a standard engagement letter for a tenner and 250g of Drum tobacco.

“Our model is about making use of the best possible talent for each job – and this is the best the downtown suburbs of Krakow have to offer,” a beaming David Frank tells the Week. “They’ve also agreed to grout the canteen.”

Meanwhile, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer faces embarrassment after the firm admits that at least a month has passed without it picking up a new role on the Northern Rock saga.

Canteen wolf: Frank plots Polish putsch