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Hard work without meaning is a prison – does City law pass the Gladwell test?
Recording a podcast recently, one of my hosts, the media lawyer and writer David Allen Green, argued that City law is intellectually humdrum. The gist was that much commercial practice is vapid and repetitive and that City law is a club that sucks up ...
27 May 2011 | 11:58 | 7 comments
Libel reform – a hack's proposal
What better way to relax after a hard week's sweating over an extended focus on libel and privacy law than listening to The Guardian's editor give a lecture on libel reform? A minor streak of obsession with the topic had set in by the time I sat down ...
13 May 2011 | 13:06
‘Events, dear boy' will define the legal revolution
The question I'm probably most often asked these days by senior people in the profession is what I believe will happen when law firms are allowed to take external investment or utilise new business models. It's a timely debate in the month that Irwin ...
21 Apr 2011 | 12:24
Does school mean smart? – the profession should decide which side of the fence it sits on with social mobility
Having irritated a fair chunk of my senior contact-base by recently saying City law firms don't much care about diversity and social mobility, I wasn't planning to return so quickly to the subject, but this dog just won't stop barking. Only this we...
07 Apr 2011 | 14:56 | 16 comments
Popham, Djanogly, Saul, Todd QC, Eisenberg, Glover, Moulton, Leydecker... we like to give young talent a chance
As Legal Week has a large events business, our editorial team is often asked for input on conference programmes, meaning suggested topics and speakers. This usually results in our conference producers having to put up with another mind-numbing speech ...
03 Mar 2011 | 17:21
Lateral hiring – totally disastrous (except when it’s a roaring success)
It's the most common tool law firms reach for to upgrade their practice - a fact underlined by a Legal Week article yesterday that showed that 2010 was the most active year yet for US law firms hiring partners in the UK. And, yet, there is surprisingl...
25 Feb 2011 | 17:23 | 3 comments
Blogging - can it help your legal career?
For many in the legal profession, blogging remains something of an alien concept, an attitude encapsulated by media lawyer David Allen Green last week when recalling the reaction of a partner to his suggestion that more lawyers should blog: "Some of u...
21 Feb 2011 | 13:53 | 16 comments
Mind your own business – should clients be telling law firms how to run their shop?
A recent article on Legal Week about an adviser review at Deutsche Bank reminded me of a concept that has gained traction in recent years: the notion that clients should get actively involved in the business model and inner workings of their external ...
18 Feb 2011 | 17:52 | 5 comments
Legal Week's blogroll - the five most-read and five tips to be the most read
Around the time of Alex Aldridge's blogging feature and Sofia Lind's complementary article on lawyers and social media in October last year, a worrying addiction to Twitter had begun to develop in Legal Week's sumptuous Soho offices. Much time spen...
16 Feb 2011 | 14:22
The $10m question - how long can partner comp buck the global pay race?
Feeling light on inspiration, I'm indebted to The Wall Street Journal and Adam Smith, Esq for giving me something to get my teeth into with a prominent piece this week from The Journal. The article charts the dramatic increase in the size of pay packa...
11 Feb 2011 | 13:36 | 5 comments
A&O’s hard facts of life
On one hand so bold, on the other, so familiar. Here we are two years on, with Allen & Overy (A&O) announcing another restructuring that borrows ideas from rivals - with booster rockets attached. Consider the history. In February 2009, A&O unveils ...
03 Feb 2011 | 13:14 | 14 comments
Cameronomics - will the vision stack up?
The first point to make regarding CMS Cameron McKenna's plans for a hugely ambitious outsourcing project with Integreon is that it deserves the benefit of the doubt. It will be a complex project and has understandably been touted as a landmark deal fo...
01 Feb 2011 | 07:56 | 
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Dismal in so many ways
No wonder they call it the dismal science. After a 2010 in which economists loudly fretted about double-dip recessions and imploding bond markets, the economy obliged by, er, growing robustly over the summer while buyers of government debt piled into ...
26 Jan 2011 | 15:17
Five things... part II - the legal directories
In a recent blog about five delusions commonly shared by law firms, I was greeted by the unusual experience of readers agreeing with the points I made... with one exception. This was my claim that law firms shouldn't kid themselves that clients ignore...
21 Jan 2011 | 15:09 | 6 comments
Locking out older partners? The least-defended minority in the Square Mile
Given the level of debate generated by law firms' treatment of gays, ethnic minorities and women, a neutral observer wandering into the Square Mile might wonder why there is so little comment on the deal dished out to older lawyers. After all, many...
14 Jan 2011 | 14:33 | 1 comment
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