Call for 'Hall of Fame'

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• Graham Huntley, Lovells partner | 6-Nov-2007 1:43 pm

  Hall of Fame
  
  Karl Mackie should be nominated for having taken the bold and innovative decision to establish CEDR with his colleagues, which has undoubtedly changed the face of dispute resolution in this country.

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• Andrew Parker, Beachcroft | 6-Nov-2007 1:47 pm

  20th anniversary hall of fame
  
  Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers.
  It was Lord Phillips who was responsible for overseeing the work of the Civil Justice Council in resolving a number of thorny issues over legal costs, including the introduction of fixed recoverable costs in RTA claims and fixed success fees in RTA, EL and disease cases. As Master of the Rolls and chairman of the CJC, Lord Phillips was quietly effective in persuading the parties to keep talking when the going got tough.

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• city slicker | 6-Nov-2007 2:22 pm

  hall of fame
  
  What about Lord Woolf? Whether or not you agree with his reforms, he had an enormous impact.
  Other suggestions - Nigel Knowles and Tony Angel (for being visionary managing partners), Anthony Saltz and Nigel Boardman for services to M&A, Clementi for opening up the law to Tesco and others, and not forgetting Jonathan Sumption for having a brain the size of a planet.

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• Managing partner | 6-Nov-2007 2:51 pm

  Hall of fame
  
  Tony Angel - He took Linklaters from a very good firm and turned it into a world class firm. He was the first magic circle managing partner with true global presence to take average PEP over £1m. He's made a serious effort to
  establish the firm in the US.
  
  Mike Francies - he has single-handed managed, for whichever firm he has been a partner at, to implement a global and top end capital markets practice. He's an unbelievable operator with a reputation that's second to none.

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• Anonymous | 7-Nov-2007 8:37 am

  Hall of Fame/Shame
  
  Alan Hodgart whose 3 core area focus strategy, one size fits all report has defined so many firms

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• Anonymous | 7-Nov-2007 2:10 pm

  hall of fame
  
  Ally McBeal. She made the public realise (as we lawyers already knew) that law is fun and sexy. She was probably more responsible than anyone for attracting a generation into the profession.

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• Magic circle banking partner | 7-Nov-2007 3:00 pm

  hall of fame
  
  20 years ago banking and insolvency were the poor relations and now they've become global products, so I'm confining my remarks to my sector.
  
  Mike Duncan, A&O : he has dominated the Global loans market for 20 years and
  created the A&O global loans machine
  
  Gordon Stewart, A&O: he made debt collecting (now called 'insolvency') fashionable
  
  Charles Leeming, Wilde Sapte: whilst he retired in 95, he was the dominant restructuring lawyer in the great depression of the early 90s and those jobs spawned a new industry in the legal world
  
  Mark Stewart, CC : the man smart enough to be first to spot the power of the private equity houses and to use banking expertise as a product differentiator for those clients, off the back of which CC have based
  their global practice

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• Anonymous | 8-Nov-2007 10:06 am

  Hall of Fame
  
  John Crabtree, Wragge & Co - leading light of Midlands legal community and architect of Wragge & Co's success;
  
  Ron Burley - old school king of clerks;
  
  Lord Woolf - designed the most radical reforms to the civil justice system in the last 20 years, the greatest success of which was to impose mediation on litigators;
  
  Sir Sydney Kentridge QC - Most famously acted for the family of South African black consciousness leader Steve Biko, but has been a member of the UK Bar since the late 70s. Now its elder statesman, he is still a force to be reckoned with;
  
  David Pannick QC - the most brilliant public lawyer of his generation; Nigel Knowles, DLA Piper - a force of nature and must be credited for making DLA the firm it is today;
  
  Janet Gaymer - Simmons & Simmons.

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• Anonymous | 8-Nov-2007 2:53 pm

  hall of fame
  
  Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty
  Sahar Hashemi - lawyer who founded Coffee Republic
  Tony Blair
  Cherie Booth
  Jack Straw
  Neville Eisenberg
  Michael Mansfield
  Glanville Williams
  Stanley Berwin (for setting up the two Berwin law firms)
  Atticus Finch (from To Kill a Mockingbird)
  Geoffrey Bindman
  Angela Mason, founder of Stonewall Lesbian and Gay Group
  Andrew Hochhauser
  Gareth Quarry (for creating whole portability thing)
  

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• Carol Williams, general counsel, Northern Foods | 8-Nov-2007 3:55 pm

  hall of fame
  
  Edward Smethurst - he rejeuvenated the C&I group and set it on its current track

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