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November 2006 Archives
Back with a Bang: more reflections on 1986
1/11/2006
At the time of Big Bang, Len Berkowitz, Anthony Salz, Guy Beringer and Barry O’Brien were all doing much the same thing - working on the flurry of M&A activity that accompanied the reforms. “If my memory serves me correctly,”...Court reforms hit cash barrier
3/11/2006
Our report on the invitation-only Commercial Court summit (see story), which took place on 30 October, had a familiar ring about it. This is because many of the ideas that have emerged from the summit received a thorough airing at...The maternal dilemma
7/11/2006
The issue of work-life balance is not often regarded as one involving life or death choices. But that appears to have been the tragic outcome for one legal couple, who believe their baby, who was born prematurely, died as a...When CC took a chance on Cornell
8/11/2006
So was Peter Cornell just lucky? Or can ‘the man from Spain’ - as one partner described him on the day he was elected managing partner - take the credit for steering the firm out of the crisis that gripped...A private eye
10/11/2006
If you are going to immerse yourself in the world of private client law, there can surely be few better places to do it that in the luxurious surroundings of the Villa D’Este hotel on the shores of Lake Como...Notts secures City landing
14/11/2006
So Nottingham Law School has finally entered the race to run bespoke Legal Practice Courses (LPC) for leading City firms. On Monday (13 November), it secured its first customer in the shape of US firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw’s...A non-permissive Society
16/11/2006
It is evident from talking to City partners that a good deal of confusion still surrounds the new conflicts regime. As Legal Week reported on 2 November, there is certainly a perception that some people are still flouting the rules...Simmons' green light for environmental law
17/11/2006
If you go hiking in a pristine Norwegian forest in the not too distant future, you might be surprised to discover that it was put there by none other than Simmons & Simmons, which has today proudly proclaimed itself to...The more the merrier at in-house e-gathering
21/11/2006
Nearly 300 corporate counsel have signed up to listen in on tomorrow’s Legal Week Corporate Counsel e-symposium. ‘E-symposium’ is a posh word for online conference. The delegates will listen in remotely via their computers, although there will be an interactive...Advocating a single training system
23/11/2006
Martin Edwards, a barrister of more than 11 years’ standing, has emailed Legal Week to endorse last week’s editorial comment , in which I suggested that training for barristers and solicitors should be fused to encourage would-be barristers to start...Ashes to Ashes
24/11/2006
The UK’s finest law firms are enjoying something of a renaissance right now. Unfortunately, that success does not seem to be rubbing off on the England cricket team. Such was the anticipation in the run-up to the first Test that...GE GC looks east for growth
24/11/2006
Believe it or not, GE general counsel Brackett Denniston oversees a legal department containing no less than 1,300 lawyers. And yet the team is actually smaller than average when measured as a proportion of GE’s total workforce, which exceeds 300,000...From private practice to public office
27/11/2006
Bill Knight, the last-but-two senior partner of Simmons & Simmons, is keeping himself busy. Not only is he Senior Warden of the City of London Solicitors Company – soon to be Master – but he holds no less than three...Solicitor's moving tribute to murdered fiance
29/11/2006
This photograph (View image) of Tom ap Rhys Pryce and his fiancée, Adele Eastman, features heavily in today’s national press. It was taken on New Year’s Eve in 2005, less than two weeks before ap Rhys Pryce, who was a...Legal Week Awards 2006: The morning after the night before
30/11/2006
There were plenty of sore heads at Legal Week this morning following last night’s Legal Week Awards 2006 at Old Billingsgate Market. If the number of people on the dance floor at the end of the night is anything to...
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