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Ten (belated) resolutions for 2008

28/01/2008

Here are 10 resolutions I have made for the year ahead.I will make at least one associate happy every day by praising his or her work.I will update my 'To do' list first thing every morning and start work with...

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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...

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Measurements - and what we make of them

21/06/2007

'The measure of success', the subject so thoughtfully discussed by Phillip Fletcher on 5 June, has two aspects: how do we - how does the outside world - measure our firms' success and compare it to that of other firms,...

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Don't you just love conference calls?

16/05/2007

Why is it that normally well-behaved people forget all their manners and start acting in the most inconsiderate fashion when it comes to taking part in a conference call?Conference calls are a great thing when handled properly, but most of...

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Watch your language

19/04/2007

Probably not a lot of people in Europe took an interest in what happened a few days ago to a radio talk show host in New York called Don Imus.I did because I remember Imus from the early 1970s when I...

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No time to run?

3/04/2007

Lawyers all over Germany are currently electing their delegates to the Satzungsversammlung, a kind of legislative assembly with wide powers to regulate how we go about our business.In my district, Hamburg, I can cast my vote for as many as...

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