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Georgina Stanley

From dating apps to entertainment venues, airports to music collections, there’s almost no industry left untouched by the multitrillion-dollar private…

Georgina Stanley

If you knew nothing about City law and the gender diversity problems it has at senior levels, you certainly wouldn’t…

Georgina Stanley

Clandestine conversations, a recruitment strategy on steroids, eye-watering salaries and internal politics galore, the Paul Weiss/Kirkland story has enough drama…

Nathalie Tidman

Whether it is the prospect of another few weeks still left of winter, many law firm leaders seem to have…

Nathalie Tidman

‘It is very difficult to see how AI competes with what David Higgins does.’ Looking back five years to our…

Nathalie Tidman

So much ink has been spilled over game-changing developments in recent weeks – namely the partnership vote in favour of…

Nathalie Tidman

Chatting with a male managing partner recently about – what else – the hire of Kirkland’s debt superstar Neel Sachdev…

Nathalie Tidman

As we go to press on Legal Business’ third annual ESG report, the data points gathered on firms’ ethnicity and…

Nathalie Tidman

It’s surprising how much conversations around social media have shifted over the last three years. There used to be a…

Nathalie Tidman

This comment piece has been updated to reflect an announcement late on Thursday (2 March) that merger talks between Shearman…

Nathalie Tidman

While Legal Business is not the type of publication to force a tenuous link in order to make a feature…

Nathalie Tidman

It is always educational and entertaining to view how the industry has evolved through the eyes of those veterans who…

Nathalie Tidman

The news that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has directed partners, associates and trainees in London and Manchester to come into the…

Nathalie Tidman

A lot can happen in a year, and never more so it appears than in the constantly evolving world of…

Nathalie Tidman

When Legal Business rounded off our inaugural ESG report last summer, we concluded that the coronavirus pandemic had given law…

Nathalie Tidman

‘You can’t appeal to people’s better natures because they don’t have one. Everyone is fundamentally selfish.’ Nihilistic as this remark…

Nathalie Tidman

A senior legal headhunter friend, who could easily be described as a Renaissance Man, recently confided that one of the…

Nathalie Tidman

While commentary from LB100 leaders in recent years may have occasionally sounded like a broken record, with gingerly repeated soundbites…

Nathalie Tidman

It is hard to introduce a column on female leaders without sounding trite or – as a woman – vaguely…

Mark McAteer

Three letters seem to be everywhere you look these days: ESG. Law firm after law firm seems to be offering…