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3/03/2008
Last week market analysts at Superbrands unveiled their latest list of the top 500 names in UK business, with unquestioned flag-bearers for UK plc like Linklaters storming into the top, erm, 260.Links marched past Clifford Chance to be this year’s...‘Most of all, I’d like to thank my lawyer…’
4/03/2008
Further proof (as if it were needed) of the increasingly star-spangled nature of corporate in-housery came last week from the very home of glamour – no, not the internal legal function at GlaxoSmithKline, but Hollywood in the good old US-of-A.Ginger-topped...Putin his place
5/03/2008
The legal profession has further tightened its iron grip on executive power in recent times with the anointment of Dmitry Medvedev as heir apparent to Soviet dicta—sorry, democratically-elected Russian premier and international goodwill-spreader Vladimir Putin.Medvedev – who triumphed Russia's recent...Testing times for prodigy Portellinha
7/03/2008
While it’s something of a national pastime in the UK to slam educational standards and moan about exams getting easier, lawyers in Brazil have taken a blow to their self-esteem after an eight-year-old boy passed his law school entrance exam...Bet on the devil you know
10/03/2008
In-house lawyers the world over know that in this age of eagle-eyed regulators and all that Sarbanes Oxley stuff, its important to maintain one’s moral compass. Former Samsung in-houser KimYong-chul – who alleged in November that the tech conglomerate had...Marks and clerks
11/03/2008
For all the decades of tradition at many law firms – centuries, even, in some cases – firms are increasingly aware of the kick up the BD backside a catchy re-branding can give you. One barristers clerk, however, has gone...Hook, line and sinker
12/03/2008
Niche practice area of the week: salmon law. Top Scots firm Thorntons Solicitors (in legal heaven since 1911) last month rocked the local market with its high-profile hire of Richard Blake – the surely country’s leading authority on the fast-emerging...Sleeping with the enemy
17/03/2008
While your correspondent is used to empty threats – ‘we’ll sue if you print this’, ‘you’re fired if you do that’ – The Diary was this week excited and only slightly unnerved to receive its very first death threat… and...Sheikh your booty
18/03/2008
For all those lawyers chasing princely new clients in the Middle East – and there’s certainly plenty of you – beware of the UK’s pervasive ‘know your client’ regulations… which don’t necessarily translate particularly well in that part of the...Monsieur is spoiling us….
27/03/2008
With French premier Nicolas Sarkozy this week charming the bejesus out impressionable Brits with his Gallic panache and dazzling other half, the ever-contrarian Diary this week had its beady eye on Paris instead.Jones Day is currently making waves of Sarkozian...Continental lift
28/03/2008
The Diary dropped in a couple of major firms on its recent networking jaunt to sunny Duesseldorf, where Freshfields Funhouse Deringer and Sherman & Sterling were among the firms on your correspondent’s itinerary.Visiting those two was somewhat akin to taking...
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