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2/05/2008
The line of weary air hostesses trudging out of Terminal Five in search of high-flying careers in the City is soon set to lengthen like a Heathrow delay.Yes, you heard it here first – hosties are being corralled into staffing...Phishers reel in A&O
5/05/2008
Those social-networkers who know their ‘pokes’ from their ‘status updates’ may remember the controversial Facebook ban briefly imposed by Allen & Overy last year – to such uproar in the ranks that the red-faced firm soon performed a Gordon Brown-style...It's official: legal paperwork is funny
7/05/2008
At last! Finally, the hilarious world of commercial law is set to be honoured with its own sitcom, elevating lawyers to the same cultural plane as dinnerladies, IT support staff and office workers at Slough-based paper distribution companies.‘Admin’ is the...Taxi rebate
8/05/2008
The Diary was recently subjected to a typically invective-laden tirade from one of London’s venerable taxi drivers, although for once thankfully not about immigration, why Ken Livingstone is a communist or the merits of the Chelsea back four. The driver...Camerons' true blues
12/05/2008
Politics and the law are pretty comfortable bedfellows in US, where firms spend millions supporting their favoured candidates and frequently lure former administrators back into private practice.In the UK the bed-hopping is altogether more uneasy – Lord Goldsmith and Debevoise...Charlie says always tell your client before you go off somewhere
14/05/2008
Kharismatic Kazakh mining magnate Vladimir Kim last week provided a valuable insight into how those expensive legal advisers earn their corn at the annual general meeting for Kazakhmys shareholders.“We cannot answer what we want to,” he mad-libbed when pressed about...Live and let diet
14/05/2008
It may be the world’s largest law firm but that doesn’t mean Clifford Chance is getting complacent in these times of economic doom and gloom.It seems food has been deemed one luxury too many by CC mandarins, who have slimmed...Sole destroying
16/05/2008
With the week-long British summer taking place earlier this month, the weather has been warm enough to shift the debate on the appropriate workplace wardrobe from fishnets to footwear.The Diary has previously reported on the dangers of turning up to...One size fits Maul
19/05/2008
Last week the new get-up for benchers in civil and family cases was unveiled by glamorously-named fashionista Betty Jackson, a designer with elite haute couture boutique Debenhams.Jackson, who knocked out the costumes for free in the first example The Diary has...Royal hoaxers
22/05/2008
Not many City firms have international trampoline champions in their PR team, although that demonstrates just how blue-blooded this top London outfit really is.But that didn’t stop some of its partners playing a rather cruel trick on the firm’s gymnastic-fantastic...The choke is on you
23/05/2008
Remember that HSBC advert about the dangers of accidentally offending business partners from very different cultures if you aren’t up to speed on local customs? One lawyer from Lovells recently fell foul of his Chinese hosts after an unfortunate case...Lord’s of the manor
26/05/2008
The Saturday of the first Test of the summer at Lord’s is always a good time to catch up with old friends and colleagues. So imagine Maurice Allen’s delight, mere weeks into his new career at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, to...Hot-desking gets cool reception
27/05/2008
The last decade was supposed to have seen the advent of the paperless office – that purely theoretical concept whereby people for once decline to print out everything they’ve been emailed in a vain bid to save the rainforests. Now...This sporting life
28/05/2008
A clutch of top City firms were fighting it out not long ago in the sixth annual Legal & Financial Cup, run in conjunction with Legal Week and sports agency Top Corner.Ashurst won the men’s football yet again, although this year its...You’re talking Bolshoi
29/05/2008
If you noticed an extra spring in the step of partners at CMS Cameron McKenna last week, it could be because the firm has just trebled its partner profits (or something) purely by banging on about the whole ‘CMS integration’...
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