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Gemma Westacott writes in The Lawyer that the Legal profession most stressful in City.

The law is one of the most stressful professions in the City and clients are largely to blame, according to Marco Martinez, business development director of corporate services at The Priory.

Reflecting on his experience as a banker, Martinez said the legal [...]

Top partners concede that firms are playing with fire as they continue to push leverage, but predict there are more cutbacks to come. Charlotte Edmond reports on the latest Big Question survey
She reports that increasing leverage and restricted partnership prospects have hurt law firms’ cultures and hit the morale of the rising numbers of assistants, [...]

The Job Journal reports that the demand for temporary labor will grow three times as fast as openings in the permanent workforce over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Legal, computer and management jobs are likely to be the occupations most in demand, according to the 2007 Temporary Jobs Guidebook, produced by [...]

Sathnam Sanghera writes for The Times about the  juxtaposition of two stories in The Times last week – one reporting that top-flight City lawyers were charging as much as £1,000 an hour for their expertise, another that a quarter of lawyers wanted to leave their profession – raised a pertinent question: just why are those [...]

“ Gentlemen, we may not make History tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the Geography”
General Plumer to his staff on detonation of 450 tonnes of explosive – Messines Ridge, June 1917.
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