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100 Bishopsgate is on course to easily surpass the £1.3bn paid for the Walkie Talkie in 2017 3 April 2021 • 7:00pm View of the top of the now completed 100 Bishopsgate, a new, modern office block in the City of London financial district taller than the Cheesegrater Credit: Graham Prentice / Alamy Stock Photo A City skyscraper is set to become the UK’s most expensive office building when it goes up for sale with a predicted £1.8bn price tag later this year. Canadian asset management giant ...

Management at miserly firms are aghast at the news Ashurst and Allen & Overy are the latest firms to pay staff an extra bonus for their hard work during the pandemic. "We can confirm that fee earners and support staff will receive a one-off bonus in April equal to 5% of their annual salary," said a spokesman for the Magic Circle firm. "The bonus is in recognition of their hard work and contributions in very challenging circumstance over the last 12 months." The special payment is in additio...

BigLaws lockstep compensation is declining in order to keep and attract talent Illustration by Sara Wadford/ABA Journal In 1919, the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for an unheard of $100,000, a sum worth nearly $1.5 million today. Sports fans credit the deal for an ensuing New York dynasty of pennants and championships and for Boston’s World Series drought, known by some as the “curse of the Bambino.” Lateral transfers are nothing new. Like the big leagues, BigLaw s...

In the second of our series examining how English law is being used in different jurisdictions, we hear from Charlotte Gerrish, who works at Gerrish Legal in Paris. 

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Magic & Mixology Magically Mixes Magicians and Cocktails in NewsBlaze Story News provided by Share this article Share this article HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Top class magicians Matt Donnelly, RJ Owens and Chris Herren as Faust combine with NewsBlaze business partner and magician, Will Roberts in the latest NewsBlaze story "Magic & Mixology Learn to Magically Mix Cocktails in the Comfort of Your Own Zoom." Seeking to support people sidelined by lockdowns, NewsBlaze and Wil...

A FORMER Echo reporter who quit journalism and “ran away to join the Sooty Show” is set to auction a vintage puppet for thousands. Robin Vyrnwy-Pierce was given the famous yellow bear as a farewell present by the inventor of the iconic children’s TV show, Harry Corbett, 45 years ago. He quit his job as a journalist and “ran away to join the Sooty Show” during the mid-70s and went on the UK tour as an assistant stage manager. At the end of the 1974-75 tour, Mr Vyrnwy-Pierce was...

Stephen Mulherns rise to fame from kids programmes to primetime TV The presenting star is currently appearing on Ant and Decs Saturday Night Takeaway Stephen Mulhern on In for a Penny A tumultuous time for our city - sign up for the Liverpool Echo newsletter so you dont miss the big storiesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for o...

Dave Stewart & Joss Stone write new musical The Time Traveller’s Wife March 5, 2021 Last updated: March 17, 2021 12:08 am By Admin The Time Traveller’s Wife, the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger and the New Line Cinema film screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, will become a new musical and premiere in the UK in late 2021/early 2022. With a book by Lauren Gunderson, original music and lyrics by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, the production will be dir...

Expansion, your honour! The jury is out H ONG KONG’S Central district has long housed the offices of the world’s poshest law firms. Recently a few of them, such as Baker McKenzie, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, and Freshfields, have left for parts of the city with cheaper rents. Central still teems with lawyers, except that more now toil for mainland firms like Zhong Lun, JunHe Law Offices and Fangda Partners. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. These are member...