Interview
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Dealmaker: Nick Segal
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | October 22, 2008
Nick Segal, one of the leading partners in Freshfields' restructuring team, talks war zones, BCCI and Northern Rock
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Cool in a crisis
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | October 1, 2008
It is 7am on 18 September and Robert Hoyt, general counsel at the US Treasury Department and the busiest lawyer in Washington DC, sounds chipper as he barrels through the laundry list of crises he has helped manage during the last several weeks.He's praising his team, running down some of the nuts and bolts of the work he has handled and chatting about his old days at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. The tone is light for a lawyer who has just managed the legal work on the biggest corporate bailouts in US history.
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Dealmaker: Will Meredith
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | September 24, 2008
Camerons finance head Will Meredith on overcoming a fear of cheese, trashing Austin Princesses and getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar
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Dealmaker: Mark Curtis
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | September 10, 2008
Simmons head of corporate, Mark Curtis, delivers football agony and a classic bit of daft jargon...
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Legal Week Diversity Panel
By Mark Goddard | September 10, 2008
Diversity is now rightly seen as a hot issue within the legal community. This Legal Week panel debate, hosted by editor Alex Novarese, looks at issues such as why diversity is important to law firms, the role of clients, how diversity targets can be realistically met and the role recruitment consultancies and law firms have in pressing for change.
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Heller eyes Mayer Brown deal after Baker Mac talks collapse
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | September 4, 2008
Just two weeks after merger talks between Baker & McKenzie and Heller Ehrman broke down over conflicts issues, Heller has entered into talks with Mayer Brown. News of the discussions was broken by Legal Week's sister title The American Lawyer last week, with sources close to both firms revealing that California-based Heller is aggressively pursuing other merger options, of which the most promising is a combination with Chicago-based Mayer Brown. Both firms have declined to comment on the claims but the talks are understood to represent a second effort to combine the two firms.
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Dealmaker: Adam Levin
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | August 27, 2008
Dechert's Adam Levin on his move from New Zealand to the City, his love of Virgin Radio and his son's valuable advice
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Modern magic
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | August 6, 2008
The expansion of the Walt Disney Company has brought fresh challenges for its European general counsel, Peter Wiley. He speaks to Leigh Jackson about international growth, bringing Disney into the digital age and life at Disney castle
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In-house Lawyer: The power of straight talking
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 9, 2008
Richard Wiseman is well on his way to becoming an institution as far as inhouse lawyers are concerned. After all, very few corporate counsel have been in the job as long as the straight-talking Royal Dutch Shell lawyer.
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Dealmaker: Richard Papworth
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 2, 2008
Addleshaw Goddard banking chief Richard Papworth on Morley, Manchester United and moving back to the big smoke
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