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...These five sets of case studies showcase how law firms are innovating as businesses....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...But dumping the cynical first-person narration that distinguished The Big Sleep et al may not have been a prudent move....
...Dolman joins the London office from Travers Smith, Haggerty joins in New York from Cooley and Goulding joins in Boston from Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...Plus, read the FT’s ranking of the top 10 legal innovators, ways to improve gender diversity in big law and what skills deal lawyers need....
...Baker Botts has hired Gaye Lentz as a partner in the law firm’s global projects department in Austin. Lentz joins from Thompson & Knight....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Baker Botts has hired Robin Melman as a partner in the executive compensation section in the law firm’s New York office. Melman joins from Jones Day....
...Baker McKenzie has hired corporate finance partner Nick Bryans to join the firm’s London office from Ashurst....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Pinsent Masons has hired Eglantine Lioret as a tax partner in the law firm’s Paris office. She joins from Herbert Smith Freehills....
...Law firm Baker Botts has hired Poupak Anjomshoaa as a partner based in London. Anjomshoaa was previously working in-house as the general counsel and company secretary of Carbon Holdings....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Every bottle — Château Lafite, et cetera,” she says....
...Jayne Fleming Pro-bono counsel Reed Smith Human rights advocate Jayne Fleming has been the force behind several of Reed Smith’s award winning programmes to provide support to refugees....
...prioritisation of national control over borders, laws and courts over the economic benefits of close links with Europe....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...She has already forged close ties with Sunshine Law, a boutique energy firm based in Shanghai and Beijing which, in a satisfying parallel, has a female founding partner....
...Selections by Barry Forshaw … SCIENCE FICTION Terminus , by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£7.99 The third in Baker’s series of viscerally claustrophobic end-of-the-world novels has Manhattan destroyed...
...Tate has come late to photography but it is to the credit of Simon Baker, its first curator of photography, that he has managed this volte-face so ably....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
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