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Dealmaker of the Week: A&O's Eric Shube
At a signing ceremony in Zurich on Wednesday (25 August), pharmaceutical giant Novartis finally closed a deal to take over a 77% stake in eyecare company Alcon held by Nestle. Novartis's quest had started two and a half years ago, and the event marked...
27 Aug 2010 | 15:07
10 happy tips for lawyers
Being a 'happiness guru' is hard work. My years as a labour lawyer battling unions was easy in comparison. So was fighting my way up the corporate ladder at Coca-Cola Enterprises. But since I started working with Martin Seligman of the University of P...
25 Aug 2010 | 11:11 | 6 comments
Hire, fire and hire again
Some people find silver linings in life's misfortunes. Me - I tend to find dark linings even when the news seems bright and cheery. Recently, there's been a flow of upbeat stories about increased retention rates at many firms, including a number of...
20 Aug 2010 | 15:18
How to win new business from friends
Do you ever feel awkward about approaching friends for business? It turns out that a lot of people do. I find this especially true of women, who often freeze up when it comes to asking for business. They tell me that they are afraid that their friends...
17 Aug 2010 | 11:06 | 1 comment
Meet the househusbands
Ever wonder what laid-off male lawyers with working wives are up to these days? Alexandria Symonds gives us a hint in a recent article in The New York Observer, and although her focus isn't on lawyers per se, it's easy to see how laid-off lawyers woul...
16 Aug 2010 | 12:27
Dealmaker of the Week: Avril Martindale, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
In 1999, Avril Martindale, an intellectual property (IP) partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, was tapped by the Ford Motor Company to negotiate the IP aspects of its $6.45bn (£4m) acquisition of Volvo Cars. A decade later, Martindale's IP ad...
09 Aug 2010 | 09:55
Negotiation trick: mirror your opponent
Let's face it, we think of some lawyers as animals - someone who will pounce on the opposition and rip him to shreds until the desired results are achieved. A partner I once worked for years ago - let's call him 'Dick' - was a master at it: a pitbu...
04 Aug 2010 | 15:41
The mothers who'd rather work
"I go to the office to get away from my children." Over lunch, a senior in-house lawyer blithely makes that confession to me. A mother of two who's married to a fund manager, she says she never seriously considered giving up her full-time job. "Are...
28 Jul 2010 | 15:05 | 6 comments
Letter from Asia: Should US firms build local practices in Hong Kong?
The Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering (IPO), expected to become the world's largest, debuted this week, landing squarely in the middle of a debate over whether leading Wall Street law firms should build local practice capability in ...
23 Jul 2010 | 12:50
Who really won in Goldman's settlement with the SEC?
Legal experts will argue over who got the best deal - Goldman Sachs or the regulators - in the record fraud settlement announced last Thursday (15 July). But one thing seems certain - the investing public didn't. The lawyers at the Securities and E...
19 Jul 2010 | 11:27
Show me the money - not work/life balance
"I can make your life difficult. On the other hand, I can be helpful." Dialogue from The Godfather? No - it's an actual exchange between two law firm partners that's reported in the latest findings by the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) and th...
13 Jul 2010 | 10:44 | 1 comment
Time to take that unsexy job?
Last week, an article about alternative careers for out-of-work lawyers by a legal headhunter struck a nerve in the legal community. Katherine Frink-Hamlett's article in the New York Law Journal wasn't revolutionary - she suggested that the jobless...
08 Jul 2010 | 15:43
Are WASP law firms finally dead?
Harvard law professor Noah Feldman had some very nice things to say about WASPs (in case you weren't aware, that stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and their contribution to diversity in a recent New York Times article. So nice, in fact, that I ...
05 Jul 2010 | 15:12 | 1 comment
Dispute resolution choices in the post-crunch world
The credit crisis and associated financial turmoil over the last couple of years has meant that businesses have had to focus increasing attention on grappling with disputes. This has kept dispute resolution lawyers in international law firms in London...
21 Jun 2010 | 17:07
Women opt out of the career fast track
Women seeking work/life balance are getting their faces slapped with cold water these days. Andrews Kurth partner Kathleen Wu, who has led an initiative at her firm to to improve the retention and advancement of women, last week warned in a Texas Lawy...
16 Jun 2010 | 11:22
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