• May 5, 2004 |

    Sheeraz Azhar Shah

    As head of legal affairs and business at Working Title, Sheeraz Azhar Shah has worked on film successes including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones' Diary. Here he speaks to Legal Director about his role at Europe's leading film production company and how his life is made up of awards ceremonies, celebrity premieres and massages in the office.... with a bit of law thrown in

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  • May 5, 2004 |

    Insurance: Seeking exemption

    The Financial Services Authority has surprised the legal world with its proposed changes to general insurance rules. Where law firms with large claimant insurance practices were previously exempt from the authority's regulation, a new regime that will be up and running next year means some firms will find themselves bound by the FSA's rules. Sophie Evans reports

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  • May 5, 2004 |

    Legal head sounded Claims Direct alarm

    Claims farm director quit six months before flotation over 'serious concerns'

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  • May 5, 2004 |

    Ringing in the changes

    The legal department at O2 has just been through a restructuring to shadow the reshaping of the business. Des Cahill meets the new team at their Slough HQ

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  • April 29, 2004 |

    Jones Day to open in Moscow after landmark £11.3bn deal

    US giant lodges application with Russian authorities to open Moscow office, its eighth in Europe

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  • April 29, 2004 |

    Cleary lockstep deal bags A&O Italian chief

    Legal Week Global reports

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  • April 28, 2004 |

    BLP bolsters private equity with Jones Day partner

    Legal Week reports

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  • April 28, 2004 |

    Cleary lockstep deal bags A&O Italian chief

    Legal Week reports

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  • April 28, 2004 |

    Self identity

    As the world's biggest law firms struggle to make their presences felt in their secondary markets, Mark Greene and Gavin Ingham Brooke look at how the distinctive cultures of US and UK law firms can be used to their advantage in carving out a niche in one another's markets

    1 minute read

  • April 28, 2004 |

    Self identity

    As the world's biggest law firms struggle to make their presences felt in their secondary markets, Mark Greene and Gavin Ingham Brooke look at how the distinctive cultures of US and UK law firms can be used to their advantage in carving out a niche in one another's markets

    1 minute read