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...Law firm Allen & Overy already uses Harvey but has insisted the technology would not replace any staff, reduce billable hours or save money for the firm or its clients....
...Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said the sector had become reliant on butchers from the Philippines, and that it cost about £12,000 to bring them to the UK....
...Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis Allen Lane £25/Norton $27 272/288 pages Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux Weidenfeld & Nicolson...
...In Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, to be published in October, Rachel O’Dwyer examines new “money-like instruments”, such as phone credit, game tokens, even customer data itself....
...Kate Allen, weekend news editor The New York Times’ Barbie piece, which (before it became clear just what a blockbuster it would be) managed to deliver both a profile of Greta Gerwig and an exploration...
...Scott Allen, Paw’s barrister, said that his client’s wrongdoing happened within “a matter of minutes”....
...Allen & Overy’s Karan Dinamani has joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a private equity and M&A partner in London....
...US firm Latham & Watkins agreed to take 250,000 sq ft and UK firms Allen & Overy and Travers Smith signed up to leases on 271,000 and 160,000 sq ft of City of London office space respectively....
...Allen compared Paw to “a very junior cog in a very fast-moving and intricate machine”....
...In November, Allen & Overy created a special bonus geared towards its leveraged finance associates — an area of dominance for the firm — triggered when associates billed above 1,950 hours a year, according...
...Two other magic circle firms, Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, moved to more flexible pay models last year, while Clifford Chance was reported to have taken a similar action in July....
...Law firm Allen & Overy, which worked on Greensill’s “pre-IPO” funding round months before the finance company’s collapse, was paid £856,000 for work before Greensill formally entered administration and has...
...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....
...Birmingham explains that Raskolnikov is fully honest only when he confesses to Sonya, the novel’s heroine. “I just wanted to dare, Sonya, that’s the whole reason.”...
...Allen & Overy has hired Gordon Mak and Stan Kostov as partners in its US leveraged finance practice, based in New York. Both join from White & Case....
...“Their pain was coming much more from the sense that they had violated values that were critical to their being,” says Sonya Norman, director of the National Center for PTSD’s consultation programme, who...
...Mr Belhaj and Mrs Boudchar had sued the UK government, former foreign secretary Jack Straw, and ex-MI6 official Mark Allen....
...“We’re very optimistic for the year ahead,” said Sonya Leydecker, joint CEO of Herbert Smith. “I think we’ll have continued activity in the transaction space....
...This is a big problem,” Emma Dwyer, partner in the derivatives and structured finance group of Allen & Overy in London, said....
...“Irish beer drinkers were ready,” says Cormac O’Dwyer, brewer at Dungarvan Brewing Company in County Waterford....
...His hair is darker than in earlier photographs and he looks like a nerdier brother of Woody Allen....
...Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power, by David Priestland, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 352 pages In 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian prime minister, visited the US for the first time....
...Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769-99 By Philip Dwyer Bloomsbury £20, 672 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Australian academic Dwyer’s first instalment of his gargantuan new biography of the diminutive French...
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