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The Lawyer Podcast

The Lawyer Podcast is a monthly radio-style programme available to listen to using iTunes or the player and download functions on this webpage. It features interviews with key industry figures from private practice, the bar and in-house, as well as on-the-scene reports from industry seminars and events.

Edition: March 2008

Freshfields finance head and new hire Mike Goetz - fresh from White & Case - talk to Catrin Griffiths about their plans to crack the City acquisition finance market. And Luke McLeod-Roberts treks to the Mipim festival in Cannes to find out which law firms held the best parties.
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Edition: February 2008

DLA Piper boss Nigel Knowles talks about Facebook, pooling profits and being recession-proof - and we ask him whether his personal brand is tied up with the firm's. We go behind the scenes at The Lawyers' Orchestra and talk to Sean Gibbons of Stephenson Harwood and Andrew Blankfield of Field Fisher Waterhouse about rehearsals, Mozart and the social side of music-making. Plus a report from The Lawyer HR Awards at the Hilton, Park Lane and interviews with some of the winners.
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Edition: January 2008

Slaughter and May’s senior partner-elect Chris Saul talks about the firm’s management changes. David Morley of Allen & Overy, Neil Kinsella of Russell Jones & Walker, Tony Edwards of Thomas Eggar and Charles Martin of Macfarlanes give their predictions for 2008. Vivian Robinson, QC, and Paul Darling, QC, Masters of Inner and Middle Temple respectively, discuss the year-long festival to celebrate 400 years of the Temple.
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Edition: December 2007

Clifford Chance partner Stephen Shea and Herbert Smith diversity and inclusivity manager Carolyn Lee talk about the benefits of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) support networks. Ashurst’s Geoffrey Green and Roger Finbow discuss the City Solicitors’ Educational Trust’s new summer school diversity initiative. PartyGaming’s Andrew Fritchie and Barings Asset Management’s Sandie Okoro talk about how their training as barristers has helped them in their in-house roles.
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Edition: November 2007

Laurence Harris, managing partner of Kendall Freeman, talks about the firm’s merger with Boston-based Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. Editor Catrin Griffiths reports live from The Lawyer Summit in Lisbon, where Eva Bishop of Coca-Cola Enterprises and Taryn Hewitt of Axa UK talk about key issues facing in-house counsel. Timothy Dutton QC, chairman of the Bar Council 2008, and Desmond Browne QC, chair-elect of the Bar Council 2009, discuss the impact of the Legal Services Bill on the bar.
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Edition: October 2007

Linklaters managing partner-elect Simon Davies talks about his strategy for the firm. Gary Senior, London managing partner and John Conroy, global chairman, of Baker & McKenzie discuss the key issues raised during the firm’s recent annual partnership conference. Barclays’ Matthew Dobson, Nestlé's Patrick Beringer and Canon Europe’s Esteban Lizan Fernandez discuss their roles in M&A transactions. Anthony Maton, of Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, talks about the rise of class action litigation in the UK.
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Downloading the MP3 version:
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Mac: Ctrl click on link and choose 'download linked file' or 'download link to disk'.


What is the iPod / Quicktime version?
It has still images to supplement the audio content.


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