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Youle tidings bring hope to trainee outsiders
2/10/2006
Joanna Clarke, a corporate finance associate at Wragge & Co, has emailed in to say how inspiring she found the Dealmaker article in the latest issue of Legal Week. Under the Dealmaker microscope was newly made-up Linklaters private equity partner...Maher Brown must wait...for now
3/10/2006
Ever since go-getting corporate lawyer Paul Maher was persuaded by what was then plain old Rowe & Maw not to join Clifford Chance (CC), the firm’s fortunes have been inextricably linked to Maher's. In return for not joining the magic...CC declines to rearrange furniture
6/10/2006
They must be putting something in the tea over at Canary Wharf. Not long ago, Clifford Chance (CC) was a den of intrigue. Blood was flowing through the firm’s corridors as the partnership rebelled against what they saw as an...A senior moment
10/10/2006
Bemused partnership advisers report a wave of what can only be described as mild panic circulating through law firms in the aftermath of the arrival of the new age discrimination laws last week. One specialist received a call from a...My darling Clementi
11/10/2006
Until recently, if you asked a managing partner about the ‘Clementi reforms’, you would be met with a blank expression. Now, finally, the metaphorical cash tills are starting to ring as partners wake up to the possibility that they may...All change at New Change
12/10/2006
If you haven’t already, take a look at the Talkback thread that is developing off the back of the news that Allen & Overy (A&O) is hiking associate pay by 15% as part of a major overhaul of its pay...A Bar to progress
17/10/2006
The publication this week of a survey of students on the Bar Vocational Course by the Bar Council has confirmed how difficult it is for aspiring barristers to even get their foot in the door. Of the 71.5% of students...Needs must for A&O's new approach
18/10/2006
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. So it is fitting that Allen & Overy’s (A&O’s) new bonus scheme sprang from an idea by the firm’s head of derivatives and structured finance, Simon Haddock. Certainly, there are few...Linklaters gets its NY groove back
20/10/2006
Three years ago, the UK magic circle were considered dead ducks in New York. But recent months have witnessed a renewed bout of self-confidence, not least because of the rebound this year in their profits. Today, Linklaters announces a further...Links, CC take on gangs of New York
24/10/2006
Adding five partners to an office in the space of two working days is a tidy piece of business by anybody’s standards. On Monday Linklaters announced the hire of King & Spalding investment management partner Stephen Cullhane (see story). The...Herbies' neo-cons reap Norton Rose investment
25/10/2006
Herbert Smith has always made something of a virtue of its conservatism. While being a first mover can sometimes prove decisive, the legal market is littered with examples of firms that have lived to regret their bravado. And while the...The day the City woke up with a Bang
27/10/2006
Today is the 20th anniversary of Big Bang, a landmark that has prompted an understandable outbreak of nostalgia within the Square Mile. Many of today’s top lawyers had recently become partners when the reforms took place. The shake-up was, inevitably,...M&S comes back to haunt Freshfields
30/10/2006
‘Freshfields bags Green on M&S bid.’ So read the headline to a story that appeared in Legal Week on 28 May, 2004, which revealed the firm’s role advising Green’s consortium on his putative bid for Marks & Spencer. How the...
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- Links, CC take on gangs of New York24/10/2006