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Big Questions, bigger issues
2/11/2007
“I’m a sucker for the magic circle brand.”That admission - made privately this week by a senior businessman - will ring true across the City of London. It helps explain why business lawyers in firms that aren’t in the magic...One reform too far
6/11/2007
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, has just had a pay rise. As of 1 November, he is £2,025 a year better off, his salary having jumped by just under 1% to £230,400, representing the second stage of a review...Backs to the Wal-Mart
9/11/2007
An expert on US general counsel popped in to say hello earlier this week. Steve Pressman, editor of GC California, a Legal Week sister title, was interested to find out how European in-house departments tackled the perennial issue of rising...Pro bono, pro-profile
14/11/2007
Few Legal Week stories have generated such fury as one written in June last year that noted how few of the large City firms were formally participating in National Pro Bono Week.One partner at a magic circle firm shouted at...Chadbourne/Watson Farley: the slow road to nowhere
15/11/2007
Well before Watson Farley & Williams and Chadbourne & Parke announced that their transatlantic merger talks had been called off, the smart money was on this deal not happening.The announcement yesterday (14 November) came almost 12 months after the talks had...A fair result and a fresh chance for Freshfields
21/11/2007
All in all, you would have to say it was a fair result that ended probably as it should have. The announcement today (21 November) that Peter Bloxham will not be appealing the conclusive victory secured by his former firm,...Death, taxes and red tape
22/11/2007
Yet more evidence that there’s never been a better time to be a lawyer working in a regulatory field comes from this year’s Client Satisfaction Survey.The 180-page report, the work of Legal Week’s dedicated research arm Legal Week Intelligence, shows...Italian indies: giant killers turned masochists
23/11/2007
Just a few years ago, Italy’s leading law firms looked like the exception to the rule in global legal markets.Where the top US and UK law firms had elsewhere swept all before them, Italy’s blend of individualism, rainmaker-friendly pay and...Neuberger and access: let’s square that circle
28/11/2007
It’s tortuously difficult to write about the Bar and the simmering issues of access and diversity without breaking into twisted metaphors.So how are we to characterise the publication this week of Lord Neuberger’s much-anticipated report on widening access to the...Redundancies the exception not the rule... for now
29/11/2007
First San Francisco, then New York, then London, then Newcastle, then New York again – redundancies are popping up in all sorts of places at the moment.Yesterday’s discovery that New York firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood is poised to make...
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- Italian indies: giant killers turned masochists23/11/2007
- Death, taxes and red tape22/11/2007