Thanks to the intriguing On Being a Black Lawyer blog – commenced by American lawyer Yolanda Young on the day Barack Obama was elected US President Elect – Blade learns that the 6th Annual Retreat for the National Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division takes place in May next year at the Bourgainvilleas Beach Resort in Barbados.
Barbados is a fine choice of venue, as Blade can confirm, but he can’t help but wonder whether a group of young lawyers choosing to retreat there is, in these perilous times, likely to have an impact analogous to the FT’s Christmas edition of its How To Spend It supplement.
Just in case you missed it: £67,500 will buy you a Ritz Fine Jewellery paraiba tourmaline ring, £49,610 secures a Chopard diamond-set pen, while a Parmigiani limited edition Kalpa XL Tourbillon watch is yours for just £135,000.
Credit crunch? Not at the FT – and not, it seems, among America’s young lawyers.
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So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.
Now you are just Fred.
Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.
The Forfeiture Committee did for you.
No one had heard of it before,
But Dave said it had to act, and it did.
Trouble is that no one knows what to think.
Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,
Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?
We don’t know.
Do you?
By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.
STOP PRESS:
Fed up with being stuck on the Thames in south-east England, London yesterday decided to move. In a dramatic gesture which augurs ill for the Olympics, the city upped sticks and relocated to East Anglia.
Lawyers were not consulted about the move, and the city’s precise motivation remains unclear. However, financiers fear that London’s decision is a sign that it wishes to downsize. Moreover, a source from London said: “We no longer want to be Britain’s seat of power. If the Scots can deregulate, why can’t we? East Anglia is a nice place where nothing happens. It’s time for a quiet life. Please respect our right to privacy.”
Elsewhere, Birmingham did not do anything, but Manchester was seen to be packing its bags. “There’s an opportunity for us,” said Manchester. “We can become London.”
East Anglia said: “We don’t mind. It’ll be refreshing to be associated with something other than fens and flatness.”
A cartologist at CNN, which broke the extraordinary news, was later fired.
We seem to be visually led this week but sometimes words proliferate far too much and letting an image do the talking is no bad thing. That’s another way of saying that ACCESS Agency’s work with Lego is absolutely top drawer.
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).