Rodney M. Burkett

Lawyers’ six-figure bonuses dry up as job cuts gather pace

...Freddie Lawson, a recruiter at Fox Rodney, said: “Hiring has cooled off to what I would say normal levels and that includes the use of sign-on or retention bonuses....

February 12, 2023

Janan Ganesh

OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power

...Before the televised car chase, if more than one person in 50 could name Simpson’s sport or what his initials stood for, I’m a Dutchman. This story was nothing to do with us....

April 20, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

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

Due Diligence

Downfall of a star fund manager Premium

...UBS has named Jeff Hinton as global co-head of M&A. He joined last year from Barclays as co-head of M&A for the Americas....

January 23, 2024

News in-depthMcKinsey

McKinsey head Bob Sternfels faces opposition to re-election

...“I’m sure there’s a desire for somebody who will speak more compellingly and excitingly about what the firm is doing,” said one former partner....

January 21, 2024

The Big Read

The mutual fund at 100: is it becoming obsolete?

...“If I’m a small cap manager, I want to get my capacity before I tell the world what I’m investing in, because the world is going to front-run me and . . . move the market away from me....

March 21, 2024

Inside Politics

Why the Liberal Democrats are worth watching

...I always have a good time here, and I’m often reminded of a story that — horrendous name drop incoming — David Cameron is fond of telling....

September 25, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

HTSIWhat to pack for every kind of summer holiday

Travel essentials for a California summer

...A few layers, sunscreen and good hiking shoes, and I’m good to go....

July 14, 2023

HTSIHTSI spring travel special

Cooking holidays to write home about

...@ajesh34 Five delicious food retreats The Agrarian School, New Norfolk, Tasmania Masterclasses at this school, run by former food editor Rodney Dunn and his wife Séverine Demanet, cover subjects including...

May 17, 2023

US police

Video shows deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police

...“I’m going to baton the fuck out [of] you,” an officer said. At least eight officers were on the scene....

January 28, 2023

Mathias Döpfner

Inside a media mogul’s 60th birthday bash Premium

...Legal consulting firm Montresor Legal has hired Roger Barron, most recently Paul Hastings’ global vice-chair of M&A, and Freddie Lawson, a director at legal search firm Fox Rodney, as a senior adviser and...

July 5, 2023

Transcript

Artist Nick Cave on police violence and history repeating

...But when he learned about the beating of Rodney King, it changed the course of his art. In March of ’91, Rodney King was arrested by the LA police department for drunk driving....

February 17, 2023

ReviewVisual Arts

Nick Cave, Guggenheim review — turning bric-a-brac into joyful, furious art

...“I’m very interested in this kind of reimagining and repositioning of discarded objects, where what we knew of it in the past is relegated to some new meaning or understanding,” he says in a text panel....

December 16, 2022

Rupert Murdoch

Trump and Murdoch’s marriage of convenience breaks down after US midterms

...I’m not sure they have a heart of hearts. They have a calculating machine about what’s best pragmatically.”...

November 11, 2022

The Future of Money

Welcome to the FT’s new fintech newsletter Premium

...I’m working on a handful of pieces at the moment, but one I’m particularly excited about is on the future shape of payments — a sector which rather unfairly seems to be viewed as boring until things go wrong...

September 12, 2022

FT Magazine

We must slow down the race to God-like AI

...As the veteran MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks recently said, it’s important not to mistake “performance for competence”....

April 13, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

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

Film

Reggae on Film: from the streets to the dancehall to the screen

...The British Home Office has denied entry to some Jamaican dancehall singers because of their homophobic lyrics, most infamously Beenie Man (“I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays”)....

July 26, 2022

Due Diligence

Elon’s going to do whatever he wants Premium

...Holes in the data Rodney Joffe made a fortune providing tech services to US federal agencies....

May 17, 2022

Legal services

Lawyers cut ties with Kremlin-linked clients as reputational risks mount

...“Law firm leaders are having to make decisions very quickly,” said Siobhán Lewington, managing director at headhunter Fox Rodney. “All law firms are reviewing their Russian work.”...

March 5, 2022

Legal services

Law firms launch wellness schemes to reduce burnout and retain talent

...Law firms have been deluged with work in the past two years thanks to record M&A volumes and an impending rush of litigation generated by the Covid-19 crisis....

October 5, 2021

Legal services

US law firms offer bonuses of up to $250,000 in battle for staff

...“Everyone is pulling out the stops,” said Freddie Lawson, a recruiter at Fox Rodney. “US firms who used to say they didn’t do sign-on bonuses have all changed their tune.”...

July 28, 2021

News in-depthCoronavirus

An end to isolation: can Asia-Pacific live with coronavirus?

...“That’s going to be the challenge,” said Rodney Jones, an Asia-focused economist whose pandemic models are used by the New Zealand government. “You have to do it in steps....

October 8, 2021

Robert Armstrong

With my father at the end

...My mother asked, Rodney, where ever are you going? He looked his wife of half a century in the eye and deadpanned: “Ass over teakettle.”...

May 14, 2021

Due Diligence

Dealing with a crisis? Call Paul, Weiss Premium

...Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Damien Zoubek as its new co-head of US corporate and M&A, based in New York....

September 30, 2021

FT Magazine

Malcolm Gladwell: ‘My writing had better have changed. Or I’m a failure’

...Or I’m a failure. More than that, I’m closed-minded.”...

April 30, 2021

Legal services

Kirkland & Ellis revenue set to surge to $5bn on private equity deals

...“Industry-wide there was less expense last year because no one was travelling,” said Freddie Lawson of Fox Rodney, a legal recruiter....

February 1, 2021

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