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February 16, 2024

Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers

How big should a US law firm be? Plus: top 35 innovative firms

...At Shearman & Sterling, however, it was a need for greater scale that drove the established New York firm to seek a merger with UK firm Allen & Overy....

December 5, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Fashion shows

Ralph Lauren takes its show to LA

...Keaton was central to understanding what was going on here: she starred in Annie Hall, the 1977 Woody Allen film for which Lauren created the costumes....

October 14, 2022

The indictment of Donald Trump

Todd Blanche: elite white-collar lawyer taking centre stage in Trump drama

...“Highly ethical,” Blanche is a “very well respected member of the white-collar bar,” Asner, now a partner at Arnold & Porter, added....

April 9, 2023

Books

The books to read in 2023

...Shy by Max Porter (Faber/Graywolf Press)Slim but multi layered, this new novel from the author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers revolves around the life of a tormented teenager....

January 9, 2023

Workplace diversity & equality

Less elitism, more inclusion: the legal industry aims for change

...Kathleen Harris, London managing partner at US law firm Arnold & Porter, says: “I grew up in the days where people would call you names . . . but that’s changed, now it’s more subtle, and sometimes the person...

October 17, 2022

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Baker McKenzie LLP

Baker McKenzie increases junior lawyer pay while rivals freeze salaries

...In June Allen & Overy told staff it was not raising pay for its most junior lawyers to more than £107,500....

July 12, 2022

Fashion

Dior’s Kim Jones channels Kerouac with a collection of freedom

...“I was looking at that idea of American tailoring,” he said, “what was worn by Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg.”...

December 10, 2021

Fox News Network

Fox News hopes round-the-clock weather coverage will brighten outlook

...“We present weather without hype or hyperbole,” said Jonathan Porter, chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, a private forecaster....

October 25, 2021

ReviewAlbums

Vijay Iyer: Uneasy — restless energy and shape-shifting narratives

...The second cover, “Drummer’s Song”, written by the late Geri Allen, showcases the trio’s strength and fluency....

April 23, 2021

Fashion

Is this the end for the traditional wedding dress?

...Scrolling through Instagram last month, I stopped to stare at Lily Allen’s wedding photos....

October 16, 2020

Due Diligence

London calling: the post-Brexit future for Europe’s financial capital Premium

...He joins the London office from Allen & Overy, where he was co-head of the global antitrust and telecoms, media and technology practices....

December 16, 2020

FT SeriesMental health at work

Remote work: how are you feeling?

...Gemma Porter, the consultancy’s global wellbeing manager, says “as a business we can determine themes....

November 28, 2020

Due Diligence

With friends like these, French billionaire edition Premium

...PJ Solomon hired former Credit Suisse banker Kristin Allen as managing director of its technology, media and telecommunications group....

August 12, 2020

ReviewBooks

Witcraft by Jonathan Rée — undogmatic account of English philosophy

...Witcraft: the Invention of Philosophy in English, by Jonathan Rée, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 768 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....

June 7, 2019

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Film

The Third Man at 70 — why the noir classic is as potent as ever

...As a result of Martins’ blundering quest to prove Lime’s innocence, three men (a porter, a policeman and Lime himself) will have died violently....

August 23, 2019

News in-depthBrexit

Corbyn’s Labour squeezed by ardent Brexiters and Remainers

...“Jeremy Corbyn and Labour have done everything they can to stop Brexit,” said Allen Burton, another of the attendees at Mr Farage’s rally....

May 17, 2019

Italian banks

Italian equities take investors on a round trip

...Meanwhile a clutch of smaller lifestyle and fashion names, including Moncler, Ferrari and Yoox Net-a-Porter, have been the best performers....

August 9, 2018

FT Books Essay

Publishing’s halcyon days: bastions of privilege and boozy lunches

...Allen Lane, revered as the founder of Penguin, “did not appear ever to have read a whole book”, according to a quote in Jeremy Lewis’ Penguin Special....

May 10, 2019

Retail & Consumer industry

UK luxury fashion site Farfetch files for US IPO

...Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Allen & Company and UBS were selected to lead the flotation....

August 20, 2018

Italian politics

Italian stock market outruns European peers

...The FTSE MIB, Milan’s premier listing, is up 4.3 per cent year-to-date, led by a 22 per cent gain for Fiat Chrysler, while Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has risen 30 per cent on the back of Richemont offering...

February 19, 2018

Due Diligence

Mike Ashley: Inside the mind of the UK’s wiliest dealmaker Premium

...He joins from Allen & Overy. Pinsent Masons has hired Eglantine Lioret as a tax partner in the law firm’s Paris office. She joins from Herbert Smith Freehills....

February 5, 2019

FT Magazine

Anand Giridharadas on the fallacy of billionaire philanthropy

...Giridharadas quotes Michael Porter, the management theorist, complaining that companies are disconnected from local communities....

February 1, 2019

ReviewBooks

What we’ll be reading in 2019

...David Wallace-Wells wrote an article read by millions in New York Magazine about the effect of climate change, now followed up with The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (Allen Lane, February)...

December 27, 2018

FirstFT

Daily briefing: US budget deal, market swings, Tesla off target

...At Vulture, he talked about dating Ivanka Trump, how Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen “plays just like Hendrix”, and how when he met The Beatles he thought they were “the worst musicians in the world”....

February 8, 2018

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