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The NY Bar exam - first we take Manhattan, then we take Burnley
The College of Law’s newly-launched ‘US JD-style’ course - which enable its graduates to sit the New York Bar exam - will doubtless hold an allure to the increasing numbers of law students completing their studies without training contracts or p...
18 Mar 2010 | 18:04
Law firm strategy – this stuff helps a bit
Having personally failed to find much evidence that Linklaters will face more than the flakiest class action litigation for its walk-on role in the Lehman Brothers collapse, I'm instead returning to the theme of a recent leader, which argued that many...
15 Mar 2010 | 16:45
Unwanted attention: Linklaters takes headline role in Lehman report
For our purposes, the highlight of the 2,200-page report released last Thursday (11 March) examining the demise of Lehman Brothers starts at around page 700, when the examiner, Jenner & Block chair Anton Valukas, delves into the accounting tricks Lehm...
15 Mar 2010 | 12:04
Legal World Cup 2010
The London Soccerdome is hosting a world cup football competition for lawyers. The six-a-side tournament, which promises "to sort the men out from the boys", will take place on the evening of 27 May in Greenwich...
15 Mar 2010 | 11:25
Libel reform suddenly – score one for the blogosphere
With libel reform being sporadically debated for years, mostly with little expectation of action, justice secretary Jack Straw's announcement this week that the Government is to virtually abolish success fees for defamation cases has rather caught eve...
05 Mar 2010 | 16:18
Freshfields' pay round: market-leading again in many senses
Well, the 2010 pay round for City assistants has largely already been set, and we didn't even make it out of February. That is because Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - having quite rightly led the market in early 2009 by halting its assistant lockstep...
01 Mar 2010 | 13:15
Size matters
Big firms put their associates through hell, but small firms pay peanuts, says junior lawyer Louise Michael...As I ponder the wisdom of my career decisions to date, I've been giving some thought to the question of where is the best place to start a le...
24 Feb 2010 | 12:07
Communications breakdown
The question of what clients want from their external legal advisers and how law firms meet this demand may well be nothing new, but two recent examples suggest that this is an area where there is still a significant lack of communication.
22 Feb 2010 | 15:11
Creating a level playing field in law
I can't think of a higher political priority for any country than the task of ensuring that all its citizens get an equal chance to make the best of themselves in life. Two hundred and fifty years ago, it was the first of the self-evident truths liste...
19 Feb 2010 | 15:19
SJ Berwin's US strategy – time to dance?
For as long as I can remember there has been talk of when or whether SJ Berwin would try to put together a merger with a US law firm. For a firm with a thrusting US-style culture and a tempting European footprint for an international suitor, it isn't ...
11 Feb 2010 | 15:40
Private parts
Top lawyers at Facebook, Google and LinkedIn last week proclaimed very publicly that internet users don't need the government to protect their privacy online. The argument coming from these companies - whose only way to make money is, incidentally,...
10 Feb 2010 | 13:15
A&O in Oz – on the cards, sort of
February is already shaping up to be an eventful month with the news today that Allen & Overy (A&O) is making its debut in Australia with a 17-partner team coming just days after Latham & Watkins reinforced its international network with a 13-partner ...
08 Feb 2010 | 15:52
Stuck in a hole
Some days redundancy doesn’t look like such a bad option, says City associate Louise Michael...Spare a thought for those in the early stage of their careers in law. From my own experience - and the experience of my friends – it’s clear that at ...
05 Feb 2010 | 10:00
White & Case departures – no easy fightback this time
White & Case's City arm is looking increasingly like the unhappy child of the credit boom. While the practice could do no wrong in 2006 and 2007, achieving City revenues of around £100m after a period of explosive growth, the news revealed today by L...
29 Jan 2010 | 17:27
Cravath partner Robert Joffe dies at 66
Robert Joffe, the former presiding partner of Cravath Swaine and Moore, died on Thursday (28 January) from cancer. He was 66. A Harvard Law school graduate, Joffe spent 42 years at Cravath. A prominent litigator and adviser to corporate boards, he ...
29 Jan 2010 | 16:58
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