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Bill Knight
Master of the City Solicitors' Livery CompanyA feast in every sense
22/04/2008
Last week we held a banquet at the Mansion House to celebrate 100 years of the City Solicitors Company. It was packed – 350 diners crammed the Egyptian Hall. Magnificent was the word. Magic circle meets Harry Potter. There were...It could be you...
28/09/2007
Judging the British Legal Awards brought it all back.A bunch of eminent (well, senior, at least) lawyers meeting round a table in a semi-basement to decide who should win the awards for International Firm of the Year, M&A Team of...The unloved lawyer
18/07/2007
As the six readers of this blog will be aware, I would seriously like to know why nobody wants a City solicitor on their board. Our firms are some of the most successful in the world – particularly internationally –...A secret seminar
1/06/2007
I am still banging on about City solicitors not being on enough boards.We have arranged a seminar at Oxford University’s Said Business School on 6 June, sponsored by the School and the City of London Law Society. We have about...Pomp and circumstance in the City
26/03/2007
Last Friday, when most of you were working, I was in St Paul’s helping to represent the City Solicitors Company at the United Guilds Service.This is an occasion of total civic pomp. The cathedral is packed with liverymen in full...A new hat for ennobled Knapp?
26/01/2007
Will Vanessa Knapp buy a new hat?She will going to Buckingham Palace soon to receive her OBE for services to company law as the UK representative on the Company Law Committee of the Council of the Bars and Law Societies...Getting On
11/01/2007
One of the many good things about the City of London Law Society is that we don’t try to tell our member firms what to do. Indeed it’s the converse. We spend our time asking them what they want us...
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