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Smooth, clever and baggage-free
1/02/2007
As numerous law firm elections have shown, there’s always something to be said for being an unknown quantity. Less time to make enemies, less time to get on the wrong side of corporate and less baggage – that most dangerous...Young gunning for private equity
2/02/2007
Another week, another Linklaters magic circle partner hire.The impending end of Tony Angel’s managing partner term seems to have given the City giant the confidence to splash the cash on some big name laterals. While the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus...Olswang loses golden boy
5/02/2007
How much do you know about Mark Devereux? Or Kevin Munslow? Well, if you’re not too familiar with this duo yet, you are likely to become more acquainted with them in the ensuing weeks.Back in 1981, Devereux co-founded Olswang with...A week is a long time in Lovells
9/02/2007
It has certainly been an eventful week for Lovells. On Monday legalweek.com broke the news of the firm’s long-awaited Dubai launch before two days later revealing that two partners were quitting its expansive US arm. Today, we report that its...In-housers should be careful what they wish for
13/02/2007
By the end of 2006 at least 15 senior corporate counsel in the US had lost their jobs in the wake of share option backdating investigations. Last month, William Sorin, general counsel at Comverse Technology, became the first general counsel...The Freshfields project takes its toll
15/02/2007
For a firm that is doing so well, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer seems to have more than its fair share of internal problems at present.The firm tops the league tables for European M&A and seems to win a role on every...The tragedy that fuelled an overdue debate
16/02/2007
If, as seems likely, the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer lawyer Matthew Courtney did commit suicide, he will not have been the first UK lawyer to have taken his own life over the past year.Hilary Tilby, chief executive of the charity LawCare...The odd success of White & Case
21/02/2007
Is White & Case the strangest London outpost of a US firm?The practice seems to go through endless debates about governance, never reaching agreement with the mother-ship; it gets little of the hype dished out to many of its US...A reader query about trainees
23/02/2007
One legalweek.com reader this week posted a comment querying the veracity of a recent story regarding the retention rate of trainees.The piece in question stated that a large number of City law firms are to offer jobs to over 90%...Time to reflect
27/02/2007
The debate on legalweek.com sparked by the death of the young lawyer Matthew Courtney has been a heartfelt one.One person who posted a response to my last blog entry was on the same course as Courtney at Oxford. “I remember him...
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- The tragedy that fuelled an overdue debate16/02/2007