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Linklaters slows as cold wind buffets the City
1/12/2008
Last week (24 November), Linklaters became the latest firm to announce its revenues for the first half of the current financial year, reporting a slight increase on last year. Linklaters' billings for the period from 1 May to 31 October totalled £653m...A welcome breath of reform for bribery laws
25/11/2008
A radical — and to many, long overdue — overhaul of the UK’s bribery and corruption laws looks set to take place following a new report by the Law Commission. The existing anti-corruption regime, which is largely drawn from three...Deleveraging, legal-style
21/11/2008
Once in a while a business story catches the eye because it goes right against the grain. One that passes that test is news that DLA Piper’s US arm is set to vote on a substantive restructuring of its partnership...Burning Oxbridges
14/11/2008
It never ceases to amaze me the passions that the Bar arouses when it comes to diversity and privilege. In hindsight, I probably should have made a few points clearer about our recent Future stars at the Bar feature at the time of...H1 mystery shows City transparency still work in progress
13/11/2008
I’ve always found Slaughter and May’s obsessive secrecy around its financial results somewhat outdated and melodramatic. It seems at times as if they feel the need to maintain the mystique lest anyone realise that they are merely a very good law...When the facts change...
10/11/2008
With Keynesian ideas back in fashion amid the current binge of state intervention, I was reminded of one of the great man’s quotes recently upon hearing of a law firm that was struggling to acknowledge the pedestrian fact that it...The axe swings: half the top 50 will have cut by April
6/11/2008
It seemed a simple enough exercise. After several months not short of redundancy announcements, and firms now reaching the halfway point in their financial year, we wanted to get a comprehensive picture of the intentions of the UK top 50...
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