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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
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
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
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
Budget bombshells
The pre-Budget report delivered by Alistair Darling last December proposed little in the way of tax changes. The state of the public finances allowed for no generosity, while the election cycle meant only a few tax rises were announced. As in the s...
26 Jan 2010 | 14:08
Thoughts on 2010 – survival for those who aren't retiring
It was another conference where the divide between law firms and clients was being gently massaged, when the conversation turned harsh and funny. One general counsel was clearly frustrated. He'd lived through a year of deep budget cuts and layoffs. He...
04 Jan 2010 | 16:40
A question of guilt
The recent convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been front page news. A finding of guilt against Knox and Sollecito was always going to arouse controversy, particularly since the way that they behaved afterward the murder may well ha...
10 Dec 2009 | 16:43
Morris: Reports of Dubai's death are greatly exaggerated
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" said Mark Twain when his obituary was published. And so might be said about Dubai. It doesn't mean the emirate isn't feeling lousy, but the story isn't finished - the patient is sick and the cure may b...
09 Dec 2009 | 14:55
Full service
Howard Kennedy's Dov Katz on combining life as a corporate partner with an international table tennis career... I recently returned from the Maccabiah Games, the Jewish Olympics, winning bronze for Great Britain in the men's table tennis team event. T...
07 Dec 2009 | 00:00
Obama lays down the law
Speed and change have so far been the hallmark of the Obama administration, at least in the business and financial services world. We saw it first in the bankruptcy court. Within 45 days, a deal was struck and closed to sell Chrysler's operating as...
04 Dec 2009 | 17:06
By any other name
Lawyers advising agents or principals on the application of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 will be aware of the need to keep up to date with case law in this area. Although the regulations have been in force since the mid-1...
04 Dec 2009 | 17:05
Microsoft finds a low-cost window to battle those pricey pirates
Microsoft doesn't take piracy lightly. Last year the software giant filed dozens of lawsuits against counterfeit software makers. And with few exceptions, they were, like most piracy cases, similar and predictable. That's why piracy cases are ideal...
11 Nov 2009 | 12:02
Better ways to spend your late twenties
Last week a reader wrote in to Career Clinic asking whether 27 is too old to start a career in law. The overwhelming response from Legal Week readers was: "Of course not!"
02 Nov 2009 | 10:57
Wachtell under fire
Amid the piles and piles of formerly privileged documents related to the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger, there are a few notes and emails from mid-December 2008 showing that Bank of America's lawyers at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz were saying v...
27 Oct 2009 | 09:46
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