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Partner don’t preach
1/04/2008
Ah, Mipim – the annual celebration of drunken lechery among property lawyers that masquerades as a semi-serious networking bonanza.One of the better stories to filter through from this year’s annual bun-fight in Cannes was the rather outrageous claim from one...Riches pickings
7/04/2008
Depending on how you look at it, litigiousness can be a character flaw – in some highly-strung Hollywood strumpet, for instance – or a noble trait that demonstrates a yearning for justice… if exhibited by, say, a wealthy financial institution...The strife aquatic
8/04/2008
The Diary was intrigued to hear of the reaction of one top City real estate partner to recent jitters in the domestic property market (well, either ‘jitters’ or ‘first signs of apocalyptic collapse’ depending on what newspaper you read).Superstar Lovells...Between Iraq and a hard place
11/04/2008
Some people get all the luck. While The Diary has been glued to its news-pipe keeping tabs on promotions season, crack legal hack Ben Hallman – of Legal Week’s allegiance-swearing, apple pie-eating Yankee cousin The American Lawyer – has been...The Shea must go on
14/04/2008
Last week top US rounders outfit the New York Mets played the first home game of their final season at the club’s iconic Shea Stadium – the team’s home since 1964 and surely one of the few major sporting venues...Jogo bonito comes to Legal Week
17/04/2008
Never mind the pulse-quickening Premiership climax or English clubs’ magic circle-like hegemony of the Champions League semi-finals – the beautiful game will be at its most dazzling later this week with the sixth annual Legal & Financial Cup, in association...Banks for nothing
18/04/2008
The field of legal punditry grows ever more crowded as hacks vie with consultants to pick over the strategic bones of the new generation of super firms. Take City legend Slaughter and May, which in recent years has had to...Dick Tyler: a retrospective
21/04/2008
Outgoing Camerons chief Dick Tyler is an affable, avuncular sort of chap in the experience of The Diary. However, he must have made a few enemies at the firm over his time in charge, as the departing chief was given...Hammonds' family affair
22/04/2008
They used to say that behind every strong man is an even more ruthless woman – think Peter and Jordan, Sir Paul and Heather (for a bit) and, of course, Bill and Hillary.Indeed, it seems likely that at least a...Suckers for punishment
24/04/2008
It’s obviously the season for gruelling/unnecessary feats/stunts of daring/foolhardiness (delete as appropriate), with LW Towers this week swamped by missives from lawyers about their exercise-based exploits.Earlier this year The Diary revealed how a team of tough-nuts from Jones Day were...Cottage industry
25/04/2008
The Diary hears a strange tale from the OFT’s high-profile test-case against the UK’s biggest banks about fees for unauthorised overdrafts – a tale that, if true, threatens to undermine your correspondent’s faith in the venerable Bar just a tad.A...Wagner’s ring-binder
28/04/2008
Whether it’s one of those Channel Five ’50 most embarrassing celebrity moments featuring a barnyard animal… ever!’ clip-shows on a Sunday evening or The American Lawyer’s slightly more reserved Dealmakers of the Year list, everyone loves a good countdown to...Hermione’s potted history
30/04/2008
It’s been a big few weeks for well-traveled City competition partner Chris Watson, formerly of Dechert, Allen & Overy and Simmons & Simmons.Earlier this month Watson sealed his latest glamour move, this time to City pace-setter CMS Cameron McKenna –...
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