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Your one-stop gossip shopIt'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...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...Square Mile-high club
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...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 –...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...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...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...
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