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I am frequently asked by candidates who are working onshore about how the interview process for positions at offshore law firms operates.

The answer is that it depends on the firm involved.
 
Some firms will conduct first interviews by telephone, others by videoconference and yet others will arrange for the candidate to attend at the firm’s London office (if they have one) for a face to face meeting with some of the firm’s London-based Partners.
 
Most firms tend to have a two interview process, and if the candidate performs well at first interview then the second interview will either be by telephone, videoconference, a meeting in the firm’s London office, or it may even involve them being flown out ...
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One of the noticeable features of the legal job market in Cayman is the myriad of remuneration structures that abound between the law firms operating here, which can make it difficult when advising candidates onshore as to what earnings they are likely to achieve should they choose to relocate and work here.

Typically the remuneration structure used by the large law firms in Cayman will fall into one of two camps :
 
a basic salary according to the individual’s level of post-qualification experience (ranging fro...
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Growth of and consolidation amongst the offshore legal firms in the first quarter of 2010 has been dramatic.
 
First there was news on January 11 that Appleby were to open a Guernsey office through the hiring of a four-strong team from the leading Guernsey practice Ozannes, thereby giving Appleby a presence in both of the Channel Islands.    
 
Just a week later on January 18 it was revealed that another of the Offshore Magic Circle firms, Conyers Dill & Pearman, also intends to establish a presence in Guernsey this year, whether by merger, acquisition or building an office from scratch.
 
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While work (and hence demand) for corporate finance and structured finance lawyers continues to remain relatively quiet in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, funds lawyers in Cayman are finding that for them work flow is slowly improving and hopefully the worst of the recession may now be behind them.

As reported by Cayman News Service on 1st January, “the jurisdiction has seen a strong pick-up in new fund activity recently". Ingrid Pierce, head of the Cayman Islands hedge fund practice at Walkers, t...
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This is the blog of my move from Whangarei in New Zealand to a new job as an accountant in The Cayman Islands.

This is my first post and my blog will follow my progress through to the early days of my new life in the Caribbean.
As for my background, ...
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