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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Dewey raids Bryan Cave to rebuild depleted employment group

10-Mar-2010 5:27 pm | By Matt Byrne

Dewey & LeBoeuf has started rebuilding its employment team a week after Morgan Lewis hired practically the entire department.

David Stewart

Olswang elections end with Stewart as CEO

10-Mar-2010 10:40 am | By Matt Byrne

Olswang has completed its elections for all of its senior management positions.

Freddy Brausch

Linklaters names new head of Luxemburg office

10-Mar-2010 12:56 pm | By James Swift

Linklaters has named financial regulation partner Freddy Brausch as head of its Luxemburg office.

Women's hour

8-Mar-2010

As women across the globe celebrate International Women’s Day, female lawyers in Saudi Arabia are embracing a proposed legal change that will enable them to practise for the first time. But, as Bander Alnogaithan, founder of Riyadh firm The Law Office of Bander Alnogaithan, points, the road to professional equality will be a long one.

Opinion: Why Asian markets are not necessarily the best option

8 March 2010

Given the merger of Norton Rose and Deacons (Australia) and the bold move by Allen & Overy (A&O) in setting up shop in ­Australia by poaching 17 partners from Aussie firm Clayton Utz, many firms are again focusing on the Asia region.

James Parker

Pensions lawyers emerge from the shadows with hike in longevity deals

8 March 2010 | By Margaret Taylor

Advisers bet on hedging as trustees, employers go all-out to cut risk. By Margaret Taylor

Jason Freeman

Fair game: Jason Freeman, Office of Fair Trading

8 March 2010

As legal director at the OFT Consumer Market Group, Jason Freeman is the man leading the charge in the battle for consumers’ rights. By James Swift

The Lawyer Awards 2010

Class half empty?

8 March 2010 | By James Swift

Have the wranglings over the introduction of Italy’s class action law eroded its effectiveness? asks James Swift

In for the skill

8 March 2010

The economic downturn has forced firms to rethink their training provisions. Helen Langton says the future of training will be increasingly in-house

Freddy Brausch

Linklaters names new head of Luxemburg office

10-Mar-2010 | By James Swift

Linklaters has named financial regulation partner Freddy Brausch as head of its Luxemburg office.

Lovells’ junior partners face Hogan-style pay

8 March 2010 | By Margaret Taylor

Lovells is revolutionising the way it pays salaried partners ahead of its merger with Hogan & Hartson, abolishing a profit-linked portion in favour of a performance-related bonus to mimic the US firm’s model.

Tulkinghorn: Tooth and law

8 March 2010

In the jungle, the legal ­jungle, Angus McCullough works tonight… Wimoweh a-wimoweh….

Geoff Wild

Focus: Geoff Wild: The Wild hunch

8 March 2010

With the public sector becoming a political battleground, Kent legal chief Geoff Wild argues that its lawyers should get radical. So why don’t his rivals agree?

Richard Gubbins

Focus: Richard Gubbins: Jolly Rajer

8 March 2010

As Ashurst’s time in Delhi comes to a close, the firm’s India group head Richard Gubbins remains optimistic about the future for foreign lawyers in the country

On The Lawyer.com

08-March-2010

Legal process outsourcing has become all the rage in the last year, with all manner of firms embracing it in some form or another (see table). As we reveal today RBS, which is majority owned by the taxpayer, is taking a different approach by mooting the introduction of a Mexican wave between its panel firms (see story).

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Privacy law: is Max Mosley right?

9-Mar-2010

For those whose privacy is invaded, the phrase “Freedom of the Press” is no more compelling than “Freedom of the State”. 

Say hello to the Mexican wave

8 March 2010 | By Catrin Griffiths

You’re running a mid-sized regional firm and the pressure is on. The systems are there, the staff are there, but the work’s drying up. Can you find new revenue streams? Here’s a niche: pitching for the standardised work the big names deem too unprofitable.

Orchestral manoeuvres make their mark at Bakers

8 March 2010 | By Catrin Griffiths

David Pyatt doesn’t get to meet his audience too much. The principal French horn player of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) tends to spend his life shuttling between rehearsal rooms and the Barbican concert hall.

"There is very little value that an international firm can add to a client's domestic Indian legal work and both clients and Indian firms recognize this. "

Total eclipse of the heart

By Katy Dowell

Over the last year London has become notorious as the destination of choice for libel tourists, almost eclipsing its reputation as the divorce capital of the world. After all, aside from Katie and Peter, celebrity divorce court battles have been thin on the ground in the past 12 months.

"£100k is not a vast sum these days anyway for a London job. A lot of my banking mates earn (many) multiples of that. Good luck to them too. "

Postcard from... Beijing

5-Mar-2010

As I look out of the taxi window on my rides through the city these days, I see large red banners with four golden characters framing the doors of almost every home and store in Beijing. 

25-Feb-2010

Editor's weekly: Education revolution

In the four years that I’ve been editor of Lawyer 2B there’s been much talk of a revolution in the legal education market but very little changed - until now of course.

Slim shake-up

10-Mar-2010

Olswang is shaping up to be a trailblazer for the post-Clementi world.

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