The Diary has already lifted the lid on the plans of new Clifford Chance big cheese David Childs to send awkward or underperforming partners on the long and lonely walk to Siberia. Never ones to miss a trick, the powers that be at SJ Berwin continue with machinations of their own elsewhere in the former Soviet Union.

This week (26 April) saw employment lawyers from the firm host a talk, in conjunction with the Anglo-Russian Law Association, on ‘The Right To Work In Russia’.