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Mission in Manila – Asia Development Bank's GC on switching from private practice
By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | June 27, 2013
Christopher Stephens, the new general counsel of the Asian Development Bank, tells Elizabeth Broomhall about 'desperate' times at Coudert Brothers and why Asian companies don't need panels
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Daring to be different – Travers' Chris Carroll on preserving the boutique model
By Georgina Stanley | June 20, 2013
A lot has changed in the world in the 35 years since Travers Smith's outgoing senior partner Chris Carroll joined the firm in 1978. But as globalisation has driven many of the firm's most comparable City rivals through a series of international office launches and mergers, Travers has remained resolutely independent. Granted, with just over 60 partners and 250 lawyers, it is much bigger than it was when Carroll joined, when it numbered just 13 partners and employed just one female lawyer. Beyond these shifts in size, diversity and – of course – technology, much at Travers has remained the same. Even the firm's Snow Hill headquarters in Farringdon has moved just four doors down the road.
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Daring to be different – Travers' Chris Carroll on preserving the boutique model
By Georgina Stanley | June 20, 2013
A lot has changed in the world in the 35 years since Travers Smith's outgoing senior partner Chris Carroll joined the firm in 1978. But as globalisation has driven many of the firm's most comparable City rivals through a series of international office launches and mergers, Travers has remained resolutely independent. Granted, with just over 60 partners and 250 lawyers, it is much bigger than it was when Carroll joined, when it numbered just 13 partners and employed just one female lawyer. Beyond these shifts in size, diversity and – of course – technology, much at Travers has remained the same. Even the firm's Snow Hill headquarters in Farringdon has moved just four doors down the road.
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The AXA man – AXA UK's legal head on getting tough on law firm fees
By Legal Week | June 13, 2013
Edward 'Ed' Davis is slimmer than his Google images – the result, no doubt, of a recently acquired obsession with cycling. "I'm absolutely passionate about it," he admits, his eyes glazing with thoughts of country lanes or aerodynamic handle bars or whatever it is about the sport that has him hooked. The self-confessed MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man In Lycra) is fortunately wearing a suit and tie and leads the way into a chilly, white-walled meeting room, sparsely decorated with clip-framed AXA promotional posters. He apologises for the temperature and smell of fresh paint as if he is personally responsible – the first indicator that this is a company man through and through. Davis has spent the majority of his career at AXA Group, the French global insurance and asset management giant boasting 163,000 employees in 57 countries. In the UK, the core businesses of AXA Wealth, AXA PPP Healthcare, AXA Commercial and AXA Personal Insurance employ some 13,000 people nationally.
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Dealmaker: Martin Wright
By Legal Week | May 30, 2013
The Mayer Brown partner on regenerating Stratford, his DIY ineptitude and the potential lure of farming
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Lessons in litigation – NHSLA's legal chief Catherine Dixon on learning from the past
By Legal Week | May 30, 2013
As chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority, Catherine Dixon spends £75m a year on lawyers and pays out more than £1bn in compensation. Far from looking to haggle down claims, Dixon says the role is about learning from the mistakes of the past. Grant Murgatroyd reports
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Call of the Wild – Kent County Council's Geoff Wild on transforming the local authority's legal team
By Charlotte Edmond | May 23, 2013
Given that Geoff Wild won the general counsel of the year award at the 2012 British Legal Awards, it is perhaps ironic that his role more accurately reflects that of a managing partner at a small law firm than any in-house position...
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Dealmaker: Will Pearce
By Legal Week | May 23, 2013
The Davis Polk & Wardwell City partner on hard work, skinny jeans and Slaughters' pencil and biscuit offering
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Call of the Wild – Kent County Council's Geoff Wild on transforming the local authority's legal team
By Charlotte Edmond | May 23, 2013
Given that Geoff Wild won the general counsel of the year award at the 2012 British Legal Awards, it is perhaps ironic that his role more accurately reflects that of a managing partner at a small law firm than any in-house position...
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High riser – Lloyd's of London GC on his meteoric rise to the top
By Legal Week | May 16, 2013
It is probably fair to say that no one in their wildest dreams would think that within a decade of leaving university they would be on the five-man executive team of the world's most prestigious insurance market. Yet that is exactly what Sean McGovern has done. Having left university in Manchester with his law degree in 1992, McGovern spent four years at Clifford Chance (CC) where he specialised in securitisations. While there, he spent one year on secondment with NatWest Markets in London – again in securitisations – and decided from then on to work as an in-house lawyer in the financial services sector.
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