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Magic Circle law firms pledge to open doors to 'ordinary' people

12.09.11
London's top law firms have pledged to tackle their exclusive 'old school tie' image by earmarking hundreds of work experience places for state school pupils from poorer families... more

I was lucky 25 years ago. Now I want to open up opportunities to all

06.04.11
I have been lucky. When I was a teenager I benefited from securing a summer holiday job, partly thanks to a helping hand from my father... more

City Spy: Goldman Sachs' Facebook short cut faces the chop

06.01.11
Goldman Sachs’ $450 million (£290 million) investment in Facebook may not be quite as clever as it first seems... more

Malaysian fund set to buy Freshfields' Fleet Street home

21.12.10
Malaysia's biggest pension fund is closing in on a £150 million deal to buy the home of City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer... more

Hammerson and CSC lift property into deals frenzy

15.12.10
The property sector flies into a frenzy with a £3 billion pitch for Capital Shopping Centres from Simon Property Group and the capital’s biggest deal of the year from Hammerson... more

Lawyer’s erotic tales of life in Moscow ‘based on colleagues’

14.12.10
High-flying lawyer sacked after she wrote an erotic novel based her fiction on colleagues, a tribunal hears... more

City to cash in on wave of Polish privatisations

04.10.10
London bankers are heading east again as Poland launches its second wave of privatisations, with the Warsaw stock exchange planning to float on its own market... more

Songbird Estates sets sights on City with ‘Walkie-Talkie’ tower

23.09.10
Canary Wharf owner is eyeing plans to strike into the heart of the City with talks over a joint venture to build the “Walkie-Talkie”... more

Law firm’s holiday bid to keep women

19.08.10
One of the City's biggest law firms is urging its employees to take extra paid holiday in an attempt to keep its women partners... more

Cable and Wireless advisers to make £22m in demerger

02.02.10
Advisers to Cable & Wireless’s £3.7 billion demerger will pick up fees of £22 million as the telecoms giant splits its British and international businesses... 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

City law firm lets top staff go part-time to boost role of women

22.01.10
Partners at one of the City’s top law firms are to be allowed to work part-time in an attempt to encourage more women into the role... more

City law firm lets top staff go part-time to boost role of women

22.01.10
Partners at one of the City’s top law firms are to be allowed to work part-time in an attempt to encourage more women into the role... more

Public votes on sculpture for Spitalfields

19.01.10
Eight metre-high models of sculptures have gone on show at Allen and Overy in Spitalfields before the public vote for the one they want made permanent... more

Bank warns 5,000 City lawyers face the axe in new year

03.12.09
Another 5,000 lawyers face being out of work next year as City law firms are forced to introduce new rounds of job cuts, forecasters said... 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

Winners and losers in law's Magic Circle

13.07.09
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer must be ringing up their Clifford Chance counterparts to gloat. Equity partners at the triple-barrelled legal firm pocketed almost twice as much as those at its Magic Circle rival last year... more

Mumbai law: 1,000 City staff 'will lose jobs' as legal work goes to India

13.07.09
More than a thousand London lawyers could be made redundant by the end of the year because their jobs will be outsourced to India... more

City Spy: Naked truth is that TV may just be to Jamie's taste

10.07.09
Chef Jamie Oliver may turn out to be a savvier businessman than Gordon Ramsay by focusing on his TV projects rather than restaurants... more

Linklaters beats rival law firms in bankruptcy bonanza

03.07.09
Linklaters emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year... more

Clearout of lawyers 'will be even greater this year'

15.06.09
Redundancies in the legal profession in 2009 are set to be even larger than the mass clearouts seen last year... more

City watchdog proposes new curbs on risky lending by banks

18.03.09
Banks today faced new curbs on lending and stricter oversight in an attempt to restore confidence in the financial industry... 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

Ms Dare, the £150,000 lawyer, told to stop putting porn on net

16.01.09
A City law firm has ordered one of its senior lawyers to stop publishing a steamy novel on the internet... 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

Six City law firms bag over £1bn

08.07.08
Times are tough for investment banks and fund managers - but not for the Square Mile's top legal firms... more

Six City law firms bag over £1bn

08.07.08
Times are tough for investment banks and fund managers - but not for the Square Mile's top legal firms... more

Lawyers must take heed on fat-cat fees

27.05.08
It was not just the newspapers that had a field day last month when a High Court judge described fees charged by one of the top five "magic circle" law firms as "astonishing"... more

Guess who is still making a fortune? Yes, the lawyers

18.04.08
A leading London law firm has been criticised for charging nine years' worth of man hours for work on a five-day trial... more


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