Hints and tips:
...Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Linklaters and Freshfields have reported stalling or declining profits per partner. Gazing into a crystal ball offers little in the way of relief....
...“They have literally just run a wrecking ball through everyone’s lives,” said one former employee....
...In a series of posts on Twitter, Clifford Asness, founder of the $140bn fund, described the LME as “slime balls”....
...Pay deals including bonuses have climbed to record highs for some at the law firms, including the so-called magic circle: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters....
...Many companies — including tech groups Google and Microsoft, accountants EY, KPMG and PwC and law firms Clifford Chance and Freshfields — have already committed to making working from home a permanent part...
...You should hardly need reminding of Clifford Coffin and his “Renaissance” shoot in Blitz-torn London. Or Christian Dior’s exorbitantly extravagant postwar New Look skirts....
...“I am openly accusing them of trying to hide the ball, of not being transparent, of being difficult to the detriment of the families,” he said....
...Uncertainty Graduate employers do not want to risk their reputation by withdrawing offers, says Mr Ball....
...How the UK contends with Donald Trump’s belligerent mercantilism could make or break the “Global Britain” agenda, writes former cabinet minister Ed Balls....
...Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe told the BBC that the CMA had “moved the goalposts, changed the shape of the ball and chosen a different playing field”....
...Clifford Chance, another member of the magic circle, merged with New York firm Rogers & Wells in 2000....
...I go to the stall at the end of Clifford Street or to Pulbrook & Gould. 19 South Audley St, London W1 (pulbrookandgould.co.uk) If I had to limit my shopping to one neighbourhood, I’d choose Beaulieu-sur-Mer...
...Bankers were far more interested in the pronouncements of David Beckham, aka Golden Balls....
...In lieu of ball gowns, they wore hoodies, bra tops, baseball caps and perilously impractical heels....
...“Innovation is a hot, and controversial, topic, with some people saying the commission is engaging in ‘crystal ball gazing’,” says Kyriakos Fountoukakos of lawyers Herbert Smith Freehills....
...This set the ball rolling on a very public campaign among businesses....
...Bar Noland, Kasmin’s artists stayed with him, and he retreated to a non-exhibiting, upstairs gallery in Clifford Street; he showed elsewhere....
...Ahead of May’s general election, banks hosted lunches, dinners and briefings with former leader Ed Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls, both of whom have now left the shadow cabinet....
...“The future holds equal hope and hazard, and the grace of a ball dress, bright against the rubble and brave in the encompassing dark, is a symbol of our gradual return to a certain serenity of life.”...
...This is likely to be one of the main prongs pursued by the IMF over the coming year, argues Deborah Zandstra, a partner at Clifford Chance, the law firm....
...FT Alphaville’s crystal ball tells us that what constitutes a “reasonable objection” may well be challenged in the courts in the future....
...My mother was the same and made all her ball gowns,” she says. Her London house, built in the 1890s, originally had six floors....
...“There are too many balls in the air for it [Dodd Frank] to be got in place quickly. The process, particularly in the US, has clearly slowed.”...
...“The days when pension liabilities could largely be ignored in restructuring work are very much in the past,” says Hywel Robinson, a partner at Clifford Chance, lawyers....
...Professor Clifford Nass and his colleagues began the project assuming that multitaskers possessed an enviable gift....
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