An article in The Lawyer (6th July) described how Sainsbury’s asked its 11 panel law firms to each invite one of their other clients along to pitch their products, Dragon’s Den style, to Sainsbury’s. The winner, by the way, was Dentons with an Internet based parts company called e-spares. A Read More
The Lawyer magazine recently wrote “The Magic Circle is redrawn…Clifford Chance relegated to third place…Lovells set to overtake Slaughter & May”. It showed the top 20 in terms of 2009 revenues as follows: Rank Firm 09Rev(£m)08Rev(£m)PEP 2009(£K) 1 Linklaters 1,298 1,293 1,302 2 Freshfields 1,287 1,178 1,440 3 Clifford Chance Read More
One of the weekend newspapers did a hotlist of the most expensive celebrity divorces: 1. Michael Jordan – 17 year marriage, £110m settlement 2. Neil Diamond – 26 year marriage, £95m 3. Steven Spielberg - £64m. Pre-nuptial on a napkin thrown out 4. Harrison Ford - £54m and share of Read More
My working world contains a lot of lawyers. And a number of personal injury lawyers. So imagine my surprise when it entered my non-working world twice in the same morning. Catching the news on GMTV before leaving the house to travel to London, I saw the Claims Direct television advert Read More
A while back I did a presentation on this topic - with a bias to bridging the gap between partners/management and the BD/marketing team - for Conscious Solutions conference. The ten tips were: To survive: 1. Get a grip on the finances 2. Do a reality check 3. Prepare a Read More