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
Some research identified during a recent PEST (Political Economic Sociological and Technological) analysis suggested that the traditional family life cycle model has broken down: Graduates are blue – Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that 21,000 graduates who finished first degrees last year were still out of work Read More
Accountancy Age reports that of this year’s top 50 firms, 39 (78%) have seen their growth rates squashed and nine saw their revenues decline. Only nine saw their growth rate increased. 3,000 jobs in the top 50 firms were lost. In the next 50 firms, almost half had growth rates Read More
Arriving at the fabulous roof top garden of Allen & Overy in Bishops Square at about 6pm last night, the weather was so hot, hot, hot that it looked like there might be a cloud burst. But we were lucky as the weather remained glorious. Sipping on chilled sparkling rose 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