The two hot debates in the City this autumn are "Will the City survive as a global financial centre?" and, as was the case in Plaisterers' Hall last night, "Is the City an asset or a liability?"... more
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
A former senior lawyer at News International who questioned James Murdoch's version of the phone-hacking scandal has been asked to clarify his allegations to MPs... more
A month ago, City Spy revealed Sir Stuart Lipton's rage over plans to replace some of his beloved 1980s Broadgate scheme with new buildings designed by ex-Foster architect Ken Shuttleworth's firm, MAKE. ... more
When Barclays’ chief Bob Diamond faced MPs this week, Streatham’s Chuka Umunna was the one to skewer him. Is this a sign of great things to come?... more
Entrepreneurs: Jonathan Hartland tells how he came up with Bigbleu, a free notice board for employees of the world's big banks, law firms and corporates... more
"It is absolute garbage to say the debt is down to Labour spending," says Ed Balls, shadow home secretary and formerly Gordon Brown’s chief economic adviser... more
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
JJB Sports delayed a lifesaving £100 million fund-raiser after some investors withheld their backing because of speculation that a Sunday newspaper would be making damaging allegations about the chairman... more
There was once a laughable suggestion that Alan Sugar could run for London Mayor. Surely there is no chance of the star of TV’s The Apprentice and Gordon Brown’s recently ennobled business adviser, taking to the hustings — given that he keeps firing off solicitors’ letters to anyone who has the temerity to criticise him... more
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
The crisis at JJB Sports over a £1.5 million loan to its chairman Sir David Jones from rival retail tycoon Mike Ashley deepened today, as it emerged that Jones had not disclosed the affair to five of his six fellow directors ... more
Leisure: Chris Ronnie is likely to be ousted as chief executive of JJB Sports within days after the leisurewear retailer revealed it has suffered an awful Christmas... more
Leisure: Chris Ronnie is likely to be ousted as chief executive of JJB Sports within days after the leisurewear retailer revealed it has suffered an awful Christmas... more
Mervyn King once harboured ambitions to be the next Jim Laker: “I was taught to bowl — slow left arm – at Old Town primary school by the headmaster ..."... more
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
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