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Banks better at sharing the pie than greedy law firms
1/10/2007
How much am I worth? Am I being underpaid? I recently asked myself those questions when I found myself in the office in the early hours and my mind wandered. But I’m conscious many young ambitious lawyers often ask themselves...Privilege denied
2/10/2007
The issue of privilege for in-house lawyers has hit the headlines following the recent judgment of the European Court of First Instance in the Akzo Nobel case. As has been widely reported, the CFI has refused to recognise in-house lawyers...German revolutionaries
5/10/2007
It was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, that famous Russian lawyer (although in his later years he didn't practise much), who said that before storming a train station, German revolutionaries would first buy a platform ticket. Nowadays there are no platform tickets any...Dishonesty by lots of other names
11/10/2007
If you know the terms of a contract and deliberately persuade someone else to break it, you can be held liable for the tort of inducing a breach of contract. On the other hand, if you knew of a trust...Freshfields beats Bloxham but firms are still vulnerable
11/10/2007
So Freshfields won. Having access only to the small snippets from the judgment circulated in the press, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly the basis of the decision. It seems that the tribunal was satisfied that Freshfields’ pension reforms were a proportionate...A very successful Opening
15/10/2007
The President of the Law Society gets to go to some good gigs and earlier this month was no exception. Westminster Abbey, the House of Lords, Middle Temple Hall, Lancaster House and, of course, Chancery Lane itself were some of the...Education for the curious, please
25/10/2007
Thinking about legal education I’m often reminded of Albert Einstein’s comment that it is a miracle that “curiosity survives formal education”.One of the concerns I have had over the last 25 years of teaching law is the danger that students...
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