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Legal Week

December 13, 2007 | International Edition

Career Clinic: Miserly maternity pay leaves mum-to-be strapped for cash

When I joined my current firm, I was encouraged to believe that my firm's maternity policy was in line with market standard in the City. Finding myself unexpectedly but happily pregnant, I recently had cause to check the details - and the arrangements are far from generous. Nearly half the additional maternity pay will be held back for a year and paid as a "bonus" only after I have been back at work for six months, which will leave me strapped for cash at the time I need it most.

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November 29, 2007 | International Edition

The firm that came in from the cold

Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the West's - and in particular America's - media bias against Russia, the 38-year-old managing partner of Moscow's fast-rising Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners becomes animated.

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17 minute read

November 07, 2007 | International Edition

Dealmaker: Neel Sachdev

Neel Sachdev is a finance partner in Kirkland & Ellis' London office, a connoisseur of fine suits and a wannabe international playboy

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5 minute read

October 29, 2007 | International Edition

National firm Berrymans in surprise Cardiff debut

Berrymans Lace Mawer has taken the unusual step of opening a new office in Cardiff, the top 60 UK firm announced today (29 October). The new office, which opens for business on Thursday (1 November), will be headed by personal injury specialist Matthew Harrington, who joins the firm as a partner from local outfit Cartwright Black.

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2 minute read

October 19, 2007 | International Edition

The seven steps

Like many aimless undergraduates, I signed up to study law, as I was anxious for a career path, but had very little idea of what it would involve. Tort, equity, contract - the words all rung some kind of John Grisham-related bell, but I didn't know what they actually meant.

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5 minute read

September 27, 2007 | International Edition

Career Clinic: I'm stressed but don't want a rest!

I am an assistant at a leading City firm and my doctor has offered to sign me off for stress. I am certainly not a quitter but I feel I need a break. On the other hand, I am concerned that it will permanently damage my career.

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September 20, 2007 | International Edition

BBC counsel switches back to old firm RPC

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has boosted its media group with the hire of BBC in-house counsel Jaron Lewis. Lewis, who previously worked at RPC before switching to the BBC in 2000, will join the City firm as co-head of its media practice. He will work alongside incumbent head Liz Hartley, with whom he set up the firm's contentious media practice in 1997.

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2 minute read

August 01, 2007 | International Edition

Insurance & professional indemnity: Risky conduct

In Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!". These words could just as easily apply to the way solicitors run their practices, now that the new Solicitors' Code of Conduct is in force.

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8 minute read

July 25, 2007 | International Edition

Berrymans bags brace of partners for PI boost

Berrymans Lace Mawer has hired a brace of partners in a boost for its personal injury department. Rated partner Roger Brooks joins the national insurance specialist's Manchester arm after a spell at the local branch of Halliwells.

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June 06, 2007 | International Edition

Dealmaker: Tim Lewis

A dyed-in-the-wool deal lawyer with a detailed knowledge of cheese (see below), Tim Lewis is also one of Macfarlanes' leading M&A partners

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5 minute read