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...To de-escalate the situation, she decided to put on a jokey tone and told him: “Crispin, you are being a really naughty boy.”...
...The former anointed successor to veteran US trial lawyer David Boies plans to quit his firm Boies Schiller Flexner to launch a rival London practice....
...The US firm, co-founded by star New York trial lawyer David Boies, suffered a blow in 2021 when Natasha Harrison, the London-based litigator who had been expected to take over from Boies, quit to start her...
...The case shows the City of London remains too much of a boys’ club, but it has ramifications well beyond the Square Mile....
...Odey Asset Management feels like a sort of boy's public school, a gun cabinet to store your gun before the shooting weekend. But the world has moved on, and he hasn't....
...The Book of Gooseby Yiyun Li, Fourth Estate £16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $28 Inspired by the true (and curiously little-known) story of Berthe Grimault, a 1950s girl from rural France who found fame as...
...Some raised concerns about a “boys’ club” of heavy drinking and “intense” entertainment of clients....
...As a boy Lowell was happiest at his maternal grandfather’s farm at Rock, 40 miles south of Boston....
...Younger associates are not driven by money in the same way as older staff are, argues Natasha Harrison, outgoing managing partner at Boies Schiller Flexner....
...Meanwhile Boies Schiller told associates it would pay those who billed more than 2,600 hours this year bonuses of between $30,000 and $150,000....
...The Colony by Audrey Magee, Faber & Faber £14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28, 384 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Peel Hunt wants to play with the big boys. The latter have big balance sheets to flex when it comes to underwriting primary and secondary equity issuance or putting up bridging finance for M&A....
...The creditors are represented by the US law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, which also happens to be putting together a class-action lawsuit against Credit Suisse on behalf of investors in the Greensill funds...
...This One Sky Day, by Leone Ross, Faber RRP£14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (under the title ‘Popisho’) RRP$16.99, 480 pages...
...All inspiring stuff . . . undermined only by its remarkable similarity to a speech given by Bertie Wooster’s less economically literate chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle, to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School...
...To that end, Boies Schiller is hiring in-house publicists and marketers — roles that have become commonplace at other big firms but which Mr Boies could ignore....
...James Thorneley: Calendar boy It was on April Fools’ Day that Standard Life Aberdeen’s communications chief posted a selfie dressed up as Scooby Doo....
...In O’Farrell’s fictionalisation, though, the spotlight falls to neither father nor son, but to the boy’s mother Agnes (Anne) Hathaway....
...stock deal to create European payment giant (BBG) Deutsche Börse pushes for Dax overhaul after Wirecard debacle (FT) NEC acquires Switzerland’s Avaloq for $2.2bn (FT) Netflix wins reprieve to air ‘Bad Boy...
...The rest of the audit market doesn’t get a look in, with all 100 firms audited by the big boys in 2018. BDO’s ascent is nonetheless significant....
...According to Ben Tidswell, chairman at Ashurst, changing the way in which work is allocated is key to breaking down the “old boys’ club”....
...The Nickel Boys , by Colson Whitehead, Fleet, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$24.95 Whitehead’s first novel since The Underground Railroad centres on a 1960s reform school, where detained boys face abuse that...
...About 80 per cent of KPMG’s roughly 630 partners are male, which has exacerbated an atmosphere of a “boys’ club” at some events, said one former female partner....
...His quieter, ostensibly less accomplished father Jonathan works at the Foundation with troubled young men he calls the “lost Boys”....
...Death Is Hard Work , by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price, Faber, RRP£12.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$25 After their father’s death, Bolbol and his two siblings set out from Damascus on a road...
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