Fruits of labour
Trevor Soames, the new head of Howrey Simon’s Brussels practice, talks to Kathryn Hobbs about how being arrested led him to a career in law
Smoking buddies
British American Tobacco’s Stephen Walzer is an expert in smoothing the way with the authorities, hardly surprising given his involvement in so many. Naomi Rovnick reports “Large corporations ignore Brussels at their peril,” booms Stephen Walzer when asked why British American Tobacco (BAT) has a separate legal division, headed by him, to concentrate solely on […]
Arguably stern
Head of chambers at Cloisters Laura Cox QC may have a fearsome reputation, but the only people she argues with these days are her children I had been warned that Laura Cox QC could be quite stern, so I braced myself to be torn limb from limb for my idiotic questions. After all, the indications […]
Worlds apart
Europe, Pinochet, Milosevic and bananas – Michael Shrimpton has rather strong views on them all. But for some reason, we still rather like him
Statutes and liberty
Shami Chakrabarti put human rights firmly on her agenda by departing her Government legal post to do battle with it as Liberty’s only in-house counsel Shami Chakrabarti’s timing of her arrival at Liberty was immaculate. She made her move from the Home Office legal department to the human rights campaigning organisation on 10 September last […]
Keeping tabs
For Baker & McKenzie’s Harry Small, keeping Levi’s little red tab sacred was a must – despite the fact that he doesn’t wear jeans very often
Glory glory
Director of Manchester United FC and James Chapman & Co senior partner Maurice Watkins tries to explain the offside rule
Polly Weitzman
Dearbail Jordan meets Denton Hall partner Polly Weitzman, who sent the Office of Fair Trading off after a Restrictive Practices Court drubbing over Premier League football TV deals Polly Weitzman, competition law partner at Denton Hall, would hate people to compare her to SG Asset Management’s financial superwoman Nicola Horlick. But it is difficult not […]
Overlord
In his first exclusive since being appointed senior Law Lord, Lord Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson talks to Robert Mendick He favours a Ministry of Justice; he dismisses plans for a register of judges’ interests as “absolutely mad”; he claims to be overworked and troubled by writer’s block when penning 100-page judgments; the Pinochet affair was disastrous. And […]