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Herbies hires former Links partner for capital markets team
Former Linklaters US securities partner Steve Thierbach has joined Herbert Smith’s London-based global capital markets practice.
Essential info
Change at the top
The recession has had a massive impact on law firms’ performances this year. There was dramatic change this year at the top of the rankings in The Lawyer UK 200 Annual Report.
Guide to the Inns of Court
All prospective barristers must join an Inn of Court before beginning the Bar Professional Training Course. Grays Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple are open to all bar students to apply to in any area of legal practice.
Profiles
David Lowe, Blackstone Chambers
I decided to train as a barrister for probably all the usual reasons - the independence, the challenge, the buzz you get from advocacy, the fact I’m perhaps a little too argumentative for my own good…
Ollie Elgie, Herbert Smith
I did a law degree because when I was applying to university I wasn’t really sure where studying Maths or Chemistry, for example, would take me. I was vaguely interested in being either a solicitor or barrister and the degree was something a bit different.
Amarjit Kaur Dhinsa, Addleshaw Goddard
I decided to train as a solicitor because I enjoy the intellectual challenge of applying the law to complex situations and the creativity involved in thinking up solutions to problems that are of fundamental importance to our future.
Andrew James, Norton Rose
I’d had a legal career in mind since I was at school and filled out one of those tests that supposedly match your attributes to different jobs by asking lots of random questions - law came back pretty high on my results.
Features & Analysis
Rolling back the years
Times have certainly changed in the legal profession since the advent of IT and globalisation.
The people’s barrister
In keeping with his somewhat unconventional route into the legal profession, Michael Mansfield QC has built his considerable reputation on taking on the establishment and standing up for the underdog.
Although I returned home from work utterly exhausted yesterday I managed to squeeze out enough energy to have a heated discussion with my husband about the lack of quality careers advice on offer to students at state secondary schools.