Discover all this with your Star Magazine digital subscription today. Graham White, Slaughters' executive partner, told legal website RollOnFriday that the firm was entirely unaware of the advert, did not approve its wording, considered it to be clearly offensive and had demanded it be taken down.Star is all about entertainment, from the best and latest breaking celebrity news to the movies and music that everyone is talking about. "Perhaps counter-intuitively, the firm is not as exacting in terms of its requirements as one might expect and will happily consider lawyers from Australia, New Zealand and Brussels." My! To think the mighty Slaughters will even "consider" lawyers from such places. Don't you just love the inverted commas around peers! City Spy is sure "peers" at Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Linklaters are suitably impressed.
The advert was aimed at associates to join Slaughters' competition team, and declared that Slaughters is seen "even amongst its Magic Circle 'peers' as unquestionably the premier law firm in the UK". * Red faces at recruitment firm First Counsel, chosen by Slaughter and May to advertise its vacancies, after it posted a pompous and apparently xenophobic job advertisement. The rise and rise of Apple is already a case study for business schools the world over. It's not so fanciful to suggest that Jobs is a good subject for academic analysis. Carphone founder Charles Dunstone highlights "being your own competition" as the advice he can draw from Jobs while philosopher Alain de Botton pinpoints Jobs' ability only to think about the future, never the present, as the defining lesson to learn. In-depth Masters-style examination by leading industry figures from design, technology and business, who analyse Jobs' strengths, and what would-be entrepreneurs can learn from the approach of "the defining radical CEO of our era". The new issue of Wired magazine has devised the "Steve Jobs MA" - an The technology world's obsession with Apple boss Steve Jobs continues. Someone a little more senior suggested: "We had to tell our clients first." Such are the moral dilemmas facing City lawyers. "Most of us think we should have called the police immediately," said one junior employee. * To Hogan Lovells' party to earwig off-the-record conversations about Christopher Grierson, the partner who allegedly fiddled £1 million in expenses from the UK-US legal practice. Not least by his oncologist, who was tipped three winners at the Cheltenham Festival by his patient. * Mourners always say how much the departed will be missed - but in Toddy's case, the platitude happens to be true. Toddy then spent the rest of the day listening to his new friend's astonishing life story. The man informed the boy that Wilson was out but that he was welcome to come in and share a bottle of champagne. One recalled how a 16-year-old Shillington first arrived in London for trials with the MCC ground staff, when he was due to stay at the home of his school cricket coach and former head of the MCC young cricketers, Don Wilson.Īrriving in the capital one morning, Toddy knocked on his mentor's door, only to find it answered by an already well-refreshed middle-aged gentleman. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪ fond farewell to Chris "Toddy" Shillington - the most genial face of IG Index's sports betting arm, Extrabet -who has died of cancer aged just 32.Ī packed Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair heard tributes to the sports-mad spokesman, while mourners then adjourned to the Four Seasons Hotel to recount their favourite Toddy tales.
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