informal executive is more accepted in the United Kingdom, the influence of U.S. trends. But even the formality of the rules in many companies and defendants often want "a competent lawyer in a wig"
few years ago I worked briefly in a large law firm in the city. One day, a colleague who had recently bought his tie Gucci to avoid scratches during an epic examination of the documents was angry shouted by a teammate.
"Where the hell is your tie?" he demanded.
"I took it off because they wanted the damage," said my colleague.
"back in", said the partner, lowering his voice threatening. "We pay enough to buy bonds much more shit."
With the commitment of firms to dress formal forever etched in my mind by this incident, which was a surprise that I read a recent backup of the scales, as an appropriate way to accommodate office by large firms cheese William Urquhart.
careeristsSpeaking blog last month, Urquhart, who works for the international law firm Quinn Emanuel, which has an office in London, said his company has "casual clothes to a whole new level "He added that" the dress code we have is that it has something between the feet and the carpet - and that's because our insurance company requires "
He went on to say that the casual "enhances our creativity," and made young lawyers more likely to speak "because they are not" so intimidated by the trappings of power. "
United States, which is mainly based Quinn Emanuel, is actually quite common for lawyers to dress during the summer months -. While in business casual clothes instead of the beach
But, to date, few companies in the UK have deviated from the policy of the years in suit and tie from my former employer.
However, in a market more international law, the traditional British style engagement seems to be uncertain. A growing number of businesses in London are adopting business casual dress code
Many make the transition to a recent wave of mergers among British hit by the recession and U.S. companies.
A lawyer spoke to the office of the city of Hogan Lovells - one of the newly merged transatlantic "mega" companies -. Recognizes dress more relaxed this summer has seen is "undoubtedly influence American"
So how British lawyers- Weaned in a culture where few bat an eyelid when a student called in public for the link - adapting to the new business casual
According to Kevin Poulter, Bircham Dyson Bell a lawyer, not so great. "The ideal that we strive is the preppy Ralph Lauren look:. Pants, shirt and moccasins, but say it does not always work as well as in advertisements for Ralph Lauren, "muses For women, who represent about 60% of new entrants into the legal profession, the success of informal dress is difficult to achieve in a similar way.
- A leak
- e-mail circulated earlier this year of the woman trainee lawyers at Allen & Overy, a magic circle firm, they reported "numerous complaints" about how they were dressing.
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