Sentences with phrase «circle firms when»

Last month, Cravath Swaine & Moore kickstarted an associate pay war among US and magic circle firms when it hiked its first - year US associate pay $ 180,000 (# 124,000) a year.

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Relations were much friendlier in the earliest days of the investigation, in summer 2007, when Mr. Cuomo's office began scrutinizing the tiny circle of associates around State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi, who had positioned themselves as middlemen between financial firms seeking investments from the New York State Common Retirement Fund — the third largest pension fund in the country — and the public officials who controlled how the money was invested.

The track's dry when I return to Portimao, and suddenly the tires come alive and the firmer Track mode makes perfect sense, locking Project 8 into a virtuous circle of decreasing lap times.

But we don't think that making shareholders disgruntled is a good idea when two activists are circling your firm.

The firm, which last month became the first of the magic circle to file its gender pay gap report, revealing a pay gap of 23 % for non-partner employees, has now announced that when including partners, the overall gender pay gap for all employees and lawyers rises to 60.3 %.

Freshfields, which advised L&G in 2005 when the insurer was investigated by the Financial Services Authority for the alleged mis - selling of endowment mortgages, is the only magic circle firm not on the panel.

When construction giant Carillion collapsed into administration, magic circle law firm Clifford Chance (CC) seemed an unlikely contender for salvaging parts of the wreckage.

Within law - student circles, a 2L at the University of Virginia gained mythic notoriety last summer when she reportedly drank too much, undressed too much and dove into the Hudson River while attending a party hosted by the firm where she was a summer associate.

A&O is set to retain 38 of its 53 newly - qualified lawyers (NQs), giving the magic circle firm a retention rate of 72 %, after 39 offers were made, marking a decrease on the firm's spring round this year when 88 % of trainees were kept on.

His departure will leave the magic circle firm with one US - qualified partner in its Shanghai office when he joins Ant Financial on 1 September.

The magic circle firm will fund its programme of weekly one - to - one tutorials, workshops and career events at Islington's Central Foundation Boys» School for a further three years when the current two - year arrangement comes to an end in the summer.

A tie - up would unite the two biggest brands in the legal insurance market, and in revenue terms constitute the largest union ever executed between two UK law firms (the deal that created Clifford Chance happened at a time when magic circle firms were about as big as Howard Kennedy).

Swipe cards were in use for access at all times of day when I worked for a magic circle firm in London, England, in the late 90s.

Having pulled a 15 - or 16 - hour day at the coalface (ok, at the PC) in your magic circle firm's boiler room, the last thing you want to do when you get home is to get out the egg whisk and the mineral water.

Rawlinson, who led the magic circle firm's corporate practice from 2008 to 2011, will also hold the title of managing director and report to global investment banking co-head Franck Petitgas when he starts at the bank in October.