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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

Linklaters beats rival law firms in bankruptcy bonanza

03.07.09
Linklaters today 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

Clifford Chance toppled as world No.1 in profits dive

01.07.09
Clifford Chance lost its crown as the world's biggest law firm to an American rival as it revealed a 37% plunge in profits... more

Bling ride for Chelsy Davy

24.06.09
Chelsy Davy may no longer be with Prince Harry, but she still gets the royal treatment. ... 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

Sexy Chelsy Davy has plenty of time for her new man Dan

05.06.09
Things seem to be going well for Chelsy Davy and her new hunk Dan Philipson, after they were spotted deep in conversation.... 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

Risks clampdown will lower profits, banks are warned

18.03.09
The chairman of the Financial Services Authority has warned banks to expect an era of lower profits as he moved to clamp down on excessive risk-taking... 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

Don’t let the towers take over

10.02.09
A new art gallery conversion is a lesson in how to revitalise Spitalfields — the ugly block next door shows how not to.... 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

Law firm's partners see their pay cut by third ... to nearly £1m

16.01.09
Partners of a top City law firm will take up to a third less pay this year - but each will still receive nearly £1million... 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

Economists question Darling's optimism

25.11.08
Leading economists have questioned Alistair Darling's optimism about when Britain will begin to recover from the recession... 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

It’s lawyers who stand to profit from crisis at Lehman and HBOS

23.09.08
Legal Analysis: If there is one group of people that has done well out of the Lehman-to-Lloyds TSB-HBOS rollercoaster then it has to be the lawyers. Not all of them are benefiting, of course... more

Choice of next Lord Mayor turns liverish

09.09.08
LESS than three weeks to go to the City Corporation elects a new Lord Mayor, and all is not exactly sweetness and light at Guildhall... more

Steve's here to break Woolies, not make it

13.08.08
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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

Princes' salute to military

27.03.08
Princes William and Harry have given their backing to a fundraising parade on behalf of injured servicemen that will bring armoured vehicles, ceremonial troops and an RAF flypast to the City of London... more

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