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Legal Week's change at the top
2/05/2007
Legal Week has a new editor. Long-time deputy editor Alex Novarese stepped up to the role yesterday. Alex joined the magazine shortly after its launch in 1999 and has played a key role in its development ever since, as well...Cab rank rule would suit firms, if not banks
3/05/2007
Remember when Citibank got the hump with Freshfields after the firm acted against it in a piece of litigation?That was back in 1999, with the row culminating in the magic circle’s firm’s ejection from Citibank’s panel (see story). The spat...Beware those cap-wearing Trojan horses
4/05/2007
Interesting to hear of ‘revelations’ concerning the shock use of liability caps. Perhaps it was slightly less revelatory three years ago, when Legal Week established that Eversheds was using such limits on potential negligence claims in its standard terms, at...City lawyers should be more thankful for Blair's legacy
8/05/2007
They say that time heals. And I suspect that Tony Blair’s reputation as a Prime Minister will start to recover once he has left office. After all, his record for winning elections for Labour is second to none. And while...Different laws for judges?
10/05/2007
Conspiracy theorists have been having a field day of late down at the Royal Courts of Justice.Tongues have been wagging after it emerged that Lord Justice Richards – one of the UK’s most senior Court of Appeal judges – has...Will Herbies grasp that Euro-nettle?
14/05/2007
The words ‘strategy’ and ‘Herbert Smith’ are once again being bandied around in the same sentence. This always looks odd, since the firm - never at the cutting edge of law firm management - probably has the most cobbled-together strategic...A complicated conclusion
18/05/2007
Those looking for a message to be drawn from the death of Matthew Courtney, the young Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer assistant who died on 9 February this year, will struggle to extrapolate much from this week’s inquest.What the hearing in Southwark...Corporate counsel’s best form of defence...
21/05/2007
The career development theme that ran through the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum was a timely reminder of the challenges still facing in-house lawyers. The employed section of the profession has grown in influence over the last five years but...Technology is still the key
22/05/2007
Tony Angel and David Morley were both at the FA Cup Final. I know this because they discussed last Saturday’s game as they waited to take part in a panel debate being filmed at Legal Week’s offices yesterday afternoon.The pair...A very long Citi break
24/05/2007
Much has been made of late of the desire of the banking community to recruit lawyers from private practice but the ongoing restructuring at Citi is a reminder that life at a major company brings different kinds of uncertainties.Certainly, the...Latham don’t give a damn about the dollar (for now)
25/05/2007
What a generous bunch they are at the City arm of Latham & Watkins. As reported in the current issue of Legal Week (see story), LA’s finest legal export has come up with salaries in London that appear to make...Hang on Wall Street, London’s finest are back on track
30/05/2007
This week’s eagerly awaited financial results from Clifford Chance (CC), which you can read all about here, are the final, conclusive proof that London’s original global firm is back with a vengeance.Revenues are up 16% to hit £1.194bn - making...‘Tis the season to be…
31/05/2007
Thanks to the popularity of our Legal Week Wiki pay round special with both readers and posters, we have decided to extend the model with a table and thread dedicated to the incoming financial results from the UK’s leading law...
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