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City Spy: Legal eagles lack challenge

08.06.11
Much excitement among City law firms about the surge up the FTSE 100 league table by Freshfields... more

City Spy: Eco-Balls! Labour and Tory tit for tat

31.05.11
The childish bickering between the Tory and Labour Treasury teams continues. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and his advisor Alex Belardinelli were jumping up and down with delight after the OECD's chief economist, Pier Carlo Padoan, said the Government's deficit-busting plans may need to be watered down... more

What's got a hundred legs and will run a marathon this weekend?

06.04.11
On Saturday, 50 Londoners clad in green vests, headbands and antennae will run the Paris Marathon as the human centipede... more

City Spy: Davies' pain after LSE exit over Libya

29.03.11
Former London School of Economics director Sir Howard Davies is, thus far, the only British casualty of the Libyan conflict... more

Big firms back £7.85 living wage campaign

16.11.10
Bank of America, law firm Freshfields and cosmetics giant L’Oreal are among the latest major employers to sign up to the London Living Wage. ... more

Apprentice star’s law firm drops to bottom of City equality league

03.11.10
London law firm that produced Margaret Mountford — one of Britain’s best known women solicitors and Alan Sugar’s former aide on The Apprentice — has fallen to the bottom of the City’s equality league table... more

City Spy: Irish troubles for top London hotels

04.03.10
Three of London’s best-known and most upmarket hotels — the Berkeley, Claridge’s and the Connaught — could soon end up being controlled by the Irish taxpayer... more

Family-unfriendly law firms ‘failing to promote women’

29.01.10
Women make up fewer than one in six partners at the City’s leading law companies, a study reveals... more

Government’s economic policy slammed by its own top adviser

04.12.09
One of the Government’s leading City advisers today painted a bleak picture of the UK economy and launched a scathing attack on the Bank of England... more

Forget big bonuses - we need to stop the City gravy train

16.10.09
A friend of mine who is something of an internet guru once pitched for a job to revamp a well-known company's website. Later, the managing director sought me out. "Your pal was superb." Then he frowned. "But we can't hire him"... more

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

08.10.09
Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK’s Everest-style debt mountain ... more

Goldman’s top of the bonus heap

03.08.09
The “heads I win, tails you lose” report into the bank bonus culture by New York attorney-general Andrew Cuomo set tongues wagging ... more

City Spy: Who is spinning fast over UKFI?

14.07.09
UK Financial Investments, the quango set up to look after taxpayer stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scoltand, is clearly unhappy about the amount of media attention it is attracting ... more

Parties and stars for broker who was ‘living the dream’

08.07.09
Anjool Malde’s page on a website for start-up companies lists his work status as “living the dream”. And to outsiders, it seemed he was... more

City Spy: Slaughtered — by a £22m legal bill

25.06.09
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott says he was “staggered” to find out Slaughter and May cost the Treasury £22 million last year for legal advice on the credit crunch... more

Credit crisis lawyers cost taxpayer £23m

24.06.09
City law firm Slaughter and May was paid more than £22million by the Treasury last year for legal advice on the financial crisis.... more

Mervyn is bold enough to speak his mind at last

26.03.09
So what's got into Mervyn King? Months of fuming and frustration at the posturing and point-scoring by politicians finally seem to have got the better of the Bank of England Governor - hence, at last, he has spoken his mind. He can do so in the knowledge his position is nigh impregnable.... more

‘Magic circle’ has lost its aura as City law firms feel pain of recession

10.02.09
Legal Analysis: What affects our clients affects us, the global managing partner of the world's biggest law firm tells Joshua Rozenberg... more

Lawyers charge £900 per hour

27.01.09
London insolvency lawyers have ramped their fees up to £900 per hour as the economic crisis deepens, it emerged... more

Aldi trainee graduates get £40,000 plus Audi

14.01.09
A supermarket is offering graduates a starting salary of £40,000 plus a company car as job vacancies for university leavers fall by a fifth... more

Clifford Chance cash call to 400 partners

09.01.09
Legal: The credit crunch looks set to hit the City law firms hard after Clifford Chance, the biggest law firm in London — and the world — admitted it had ordered a cash call of £100,000 per partner, and is laying off 80 solicitors... more

HSBC did well – by ignoring City’s rules

15.12.08
Which of our High Street banks has for the most part ridden out the financial crisis? Yep, HSBC, the bank that rode roughshod all over corporate governance rules by successively appointing their chief executives to be chairman... more

City party's over - let's have a fat-cat clearout

20.10.08
Prosecco not champagne. God forbid, Twiglets instead of caviar. The years of excess are over a grim, new age has taken hold. Don't believe me? You still think Nicky Haslam's £200,000 bash last Thursday was typical? You're wrong... more

Top City law firms hike fees to £900 a hour in the crunch

17.10.08
City solicitors are increasing their hourly rates despite the onset of recession, with top insolvency lawyers charging as much as £900 an hour... more

Does Putin now have Rupert Murdoch in his sights?

10.09.08
NOW a peace of sorts seems to have broken out between BP and its Russian partners, the talk has turned in Moscow to which Western business partner might next fall foul of the combined business-state machine... more

Legal firms score well on soccer deals

09.09.08
Law: Law firms including Hammonds and Slaughter and May had a bumper August advising football clubs on the frenetic transfer season... more

City lawyers fear good times are over

09.09.08
Legal analysis: James Baxter, editor of Legal Business magazine, sees dark clouds on the horizon, with most law firms expecting to show a drop in profits this year after a decade of rapid growth... more

City lawyers earning up to £2.5m despite credit crunch

26.08.08
The City's top lawyers earned nearly £2.5million each as the big law firms billed clients a record £14billion last year, new figures reveal... more


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