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But this Slaughters associate had his salary docked 10% for wearing brown shoes in town.   Slaughter and Mays pay freeze is being lifted, to a chorus of "huzzah" from lawyers at the elite firm. The announcement will be welcomed by the Slaughters associates who were not best pleased when the firm told them in December that last years pay freeze was continuing; despite other City firms thawing their salary restrictions (for lawyers, at least). The grumbles seemed to have contributed to...

First Boxing Day, now Valentines Day - whats he got lined up for Easter? Barrister Jolyon Maugham has revealed that Allen & Overy boycotted his chambers after he clobbered a fox to death. On Boxing Day in 2019, Maugham tweeted "I have killed a fox with a baseball bat" while wearing his wifes "too small" kimono. On Valentines Day this week, the tax barrister disclosed that in the aftermath of his "stupid tweet", Allen & Overys head of litigation told Devereux Chambers that while Maugham was...

Dechert hires Weils former head of restructuring and insolvency in London 18 February 2021 Adam Plainer joins as co-head of US firms global financial restructuring group Peter James Sampson; Shutterstock Dechert has hired restructuring lawyer Adam Plainer from Weil Gotshal & Manges to co-chair its global financial restructuring group. Plainer is set to join the firm’s London office, initially as a consultant pending regulatory clearance for partnership. He arrives from Weil, where he was he...

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Allen & Overy hires White & Case leveraged finance partner in New York to head US practice 16 February 2021 Allen & Overy hires White & Case leveraged finance partner in New York to head US practice Arrival of Jake Mincemoyer signals continued drive to build US capacity dating back to five-partner haul back in 2016 Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its US leveraged finance capability with the hire of White & Case partner Jake Mincemoyer in New York. Mincemoyer will assume the role of head of US...

JP Morgan makes Linklaters partner its co-head of UK investment banking The J P Morgan building at Canary Wharf (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Charlie Jacobs, senior partner at magic circle law firm Linklaters, will join JP Morgan as co-head of UK investment banking. Jacobs, who is one of the city’s major players in the M&A space, will replace Ed Byers who has been promoted to Vice Chair of UK Investment Banking.

The pair are alleged to have made a profit of about £142,000 by trading in six stocks, including ARM Holdings and Punch Taverns

A barrister has said he was blacklisted by a leading law firm after he tweeted about killing a fox with a baseball bat on Boxing Day 2019. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, said that ‘Magic Circle’ law firm Allen & Overy refused to give him or other members of the Devereux Chambers any work as long as he was still among the roster of civil litigation barristers there. Mr Maugham faced a flurry of criticism on social media after...

One could be forgiven for thinking that barrister Mohsin Zaidi’s A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance would be an all-too-familiar identity narrative — of those whose parents are South Asian immigrants in the United Kingdom, and typically depicting their family and community denying them the agency to realise their true selves. However, it soon becomes abundantly clear that it is anything but that. Zaidi’s voice is pertinent as he writes about issues of identi...