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The Lawyer Interview 2003: The names of the game
15 December 2003
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Behind every story is a personality. Here are some The Lawyer profiled in 2003
| Joe Flom, Skadden, meets Dearbail Jordan Joe Flom looks almost offended when I ask him if he is 80. “I’ll be 80 in the summer,” the septuagenarian quickly corrects me in his soft Brooklyn accent. While insulting the person you are interviewing is probably not the best way to kick-start a conversation, the legendary Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & - of course – Flom partner’s tongue is firmly in his cheek as he feigns outrage at my opening gambit. To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Michael Smyth, Clifford Chance This is the man who once reduced a journalist to tears over a typographical error. He played the litigator so well, she sobbed all the way up Aldersgate Street. To read this client file in full click here | |
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| James Sprayregen, Kirkland & Ellis “Bankruptcy is time-consuming, it’s emotional, it’s very hard work, it’s emergency-based, it’s around the clock and you get what you pay for.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Sue Ashtiany, Nabbaro Nathanson “I can’t really think how I did any schoolwork at all [at stage school]. It would have been Ofsted-ed out of existence nowadays.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| John Young, Lovells “My immediate reaction was, ‘Well, I’ve won after all’, but looking back I felt I had at least even chances. I wouldn’t have stood if I hadn’t thought I was in with a very good chance.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Jeffrey Bailey, Paul Hastings “I always find it perplexing that the Anglo-Saxon approach is not to value age and experience. It’s bizarre really.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Rodrigo Uría, Uría & Menéndez “It’s like an orchestra full of Yehudi Menuhins. What I mean is I manage a group of prima donnas. All the lawyers are prima donnas.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Paul Maher, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw “[Upping assistants’ chargeable hours] has always been part of the revolution in our business. Not everybody likes the ides – but tough.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Nick Holt, KLegal “The collapse of Andersen and the downfall of Enron isn’t, I don’t think, relevant to whether lawyers can practise with other professional. It’s a sideshow.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Robert Rhodes QC, 35 Essex Street “You can tell the time of death of the old boys at the Garrick Club from the date of the newspapers on their heads.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Robert Derry-Evans, CMS “Prospective clients perceive us as a single firm. We need to build on that perception and make it a reality.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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| Margaret Bloom, OFT (now at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) “I would have been even more pleased to have been able to get out a number of cartel cases before I retired – they’ve taken longer than I would have wished.” To read this client file in full click here | |
| Nigel Tait, Peter Carter-Ruck & Partners “I have to charge a success fee to cover the risk of the cases I lose. Otherwise I couldn’t do CFA’s and there’d be no access to justice.” To read this client file in full click here | |
| Jonathan Goldstein, Olswang “You’re only as good as your last deal. You don’t look back and say, ‘Wasn’t that good?’, because quite frankly, anything you did last week is irrelevant.” To read this client file in full click here | |
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