Juicy exclusives aside, RollOnFriday likes nothing more than writing something nice about the profession. Honestly.
One of the most amazing stories this year was the City lawyer who proposed to an Ashurst associate as their plane plunged 24,000 feet and they thought they were going to die. She said yes and they survived. The rapid succession of bummers if she'd said no and then they had crashed would not have merited inclusion in this section.
There were some impressive pro bono victories. Clifford Chance lawyers won the right to fight for gender-neutral passports. Lawyers at Freshfields, DWF, BLP and more offered help after the Manchester bomb attack. And Linklaters, Three Crowns and Skadden saved a man condemned to death from lethal injection.
Baker McKenzie gave a heroic student a place on its vacation scheme after he intervened to save a partner from a brutal assault. Linklaters was heroic for encouraging its lawyers to do far less. Nothing at all, in fact. In Germany it piloted a revolutionary 40 hour week for lawyers, to restore a work/life balance for those who want their kids to recognise them. And it escaped prosecution after a clear-eyed Links partner smelt something fishy and de-instructed the firm.
In good news for Olswang, which was otherwise heading for the u-bend, CMS and Nabarro absorbed it in a mega-merger threesome. Elsewhere, an Irish firm put up an excellent job advert promising candidates the chance to "ham it up" in court. But RollOnFriday's still waiting for firms to release their specially branded children's books.
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One of the most amazing stories this year was the City lawyer who proposed to an Ashurst associate as their plane plunged 24,000 feet and they thought they were going to die. She said yes and they survived. The rapid succession of bummers if she'd said no and then they had crashed would not have merited inclusion in this section.
There were some impressive pro bono victories. Clifford Chance lawyers won the right to fight for gender-neutral passports. Lawyers at Freshfields, DWF, BLP and more offered help after the Manchester bomb attack. And Linklaters, Three Crowns and Skadden saved a man condemned to death from lethal injection.
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Baker McKenzie gave a heroic student a place on its vacation scheme after he intervened to save a partner from a brutal assault. Linklaters was heroic for encouraging its lawyers to do far less. Nothing at all, in fact. In Germany it piloted a revolutionary 40 hour week for lawyers, to restore a work/life balance for those who want their kids to recognise them. And it escaped prosecution after a clear-eyed Links partner smelt something fishy and de-instructed the firm.
In good news for Olswang, which was otherwise heading for the u-bend, CMS and Nabarro absorbed it in a mega-merger threesome. Elsewhere, an Irish firm put up an excellent job advert promising candidates the chance to "ham it up" in court. But RollOnFriday's still waiting for firms to release their specially branded children's books.