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Thursday, 09 September 2010

Jones Day advises as Connaught calls in the administrators

8-Sep-2010 3:58 pm | By Luke McLeod-Roberts

Connaught, the property and environmental services group that has appointed administrators in the largest company administration since Woolworths, has turned to Jones Day to guide it through the process.

Philip Rodney

Burness chair helps snooker's Higgins quash match-fixing claims

8-Sep-2010 5:26 pm | By Katy Dowell

Burness partner Philip Rodney has successfully defended the former snooker world champion John Higgins of allegations of match fixing, originally made by the News of the World (NoW).

Ted Burke

UK 200 financials laid bare in pivotal year for profession

6 September 2010 | By Matt Byrne

Beyond PEP: magic circle and silver circle firms extend the gap on every profit metric

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Bakers, Hammonds and Herbies scoop Boots pension transfer

6 September 2010 | By Margaret Taylor

Baker & McKenzie, ­Hammonds and Herbert Smith have worked on a ­pensions deal that has seen Alliance Boots offload the liabilities on the smaller of its two pension schemes to insurer Pensions Insurance Corporation (PIC).

Nick Pointon

Misrepresentation should make firms’ insurance void

6 September 2010

As we approach the October renewals period for solicitors’ professional ­indemnity (PI) insurance, smaller law firms face a perfect storm.

David Gold

Focus: David Gold, Golden years

6 September 2010 | By Gavriel Hollander

Herbert Smith stalwart David Gold says his retirement plans don’t involve golf or gardening instead he’s starting out with a DoJ-appointed role making sure BAE remains ethically sound

Motor head

6 September 2010 | By Andrew Pugh

Risk management is the name of the game in the ­fast-moving world of Simon MacDonald, group legal affairs manager at MotorSport Vision.

Martin Darroch

Firm Profile: Harper Macleod

6 September 2010 | By Margaret Taylor

When the financial crisis hit in 2008 Scottish firm Harper Macleod took swift action to prepare its ­business for the worst.

Two-year itch

6 September 2010

The entry of foreign firms into India has become a saga of classical proportions. And as Kian Ganz finds, it is one that is set to run and run

Feel the learn

6 September 2010

Fiercer competition for work and talent in an increasingly globalised business environment means firms need to provide their lawyers with a broader-based skill set than previously

Peter Crossley

Focus: Hammonds, Hello Squire

6 September 2010

Hammonds’ stated aim of merging with Squire Sanders needs a bit of work

White & Case launches Beijing seat for trainees

8-Sep-2010 | By Corinne McPartland

White & Case has expanded its international trainee solicitor secondment programme to its Beijing office.

Tulkinghorn: The signs are bad

6 September 2010

While Tulkinghorn and his many spies are used to passing ­sentence on the prospects of competing law firms, none of the aforesaid expect commentary on the ups and downs of the ­profession to find its way to the offices of The Lawyer from the road sign-writers of England’s South Coast.

On The Lawyer.com

6-September-2010

This week sees the launch of the UK 200 2010 and for the first time ever it includes profiles of all 200 firms. To find out where your firm ranks click here.
Our lead story this week puts the figures in context, looking at the top firms by PEP and EPP. And to find out how many days it took for the top 50 practices to break even click here.

The Lawyer UK200 2010

Click here for info on more than 200 top law firms

The high cost of ambition

6 September 2010

Given that we’re now officially in an age of austerity, in this year’s edition of The LawyerUK 200 we decided to focus squarely on costs and the effect of cuts.

Phone jacker

By Katy Dowell

A handful of lawyers is working its way through the tangled web that is the alleged phone hacking scandal to have engulfed the News of the World (NoW).

Howard Kennedy partner’s net profits

6 September 2010 | By Katy Dowell

Howard Kennedy partner Dov Katz has a passion outside the law that has helped his firm make some powerful connections ­within the Jewish community. And the passion? Table tennis.

Editor's weekly: Brochures away

I always feel really old when telling people that I prefer reading magazine articles to their online cousins.

Closer to home

8-Sep-2010

Considering the amount of time and energy UK firms have spent trying to get India to open its legal market to foreigners (for more of which see this week’s special report) it seems a little counter productive when our own country’s administrative bodies appear hell-bent on keeping out lawyers from abroad.

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