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Associate Diary · First-person diary

My First 100 Days as a First-Year Associate

Amelia Pike learns how to draft a notice provision, locate the current draft and identify the deadline nobody has told the client about.

By Amelia Pike17 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

A stack of bound meeting minutes beside a table card reading 'Task Force (Again)'
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Internal Documents · Leaked meeting minutes

Task Force Formed to Review Previous Task Force

Minutes of the Wetherby Dodd Committee Effectiveness Task Force. Approved, subject to approval.

From the Wetherby Dodd intranet17 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

An office security turnstile beside a calendar with every day circled
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The Attendance Desk · Round-up with policy extracts and Q&A

Three Days in the Office. All Seven of Them.

The Unbillable examines three new attendance policies. None has made Wednesday easier.

By Celia Firth and the Workplace Correspondent, who has been told to come in17 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

An empty partner's chair, a tablet showing a senior partner's face and his portrait on the wall
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Guest Opinion · Posthumous guest column

Death Is No Reason to Reallocate My Clients

I retired in 2008. I died in 2019. In neither case was the introduction rescinded.

By Sir Crispin Wetherby (1938–2019; reappointed 2026)17 Oct 2026 · 3 min read