Norton Rose freezes NQ, trainee salaries
Norton Rose has frozen salaries for all trainees and newly-qualified lawyers.
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Eversheds turnover and PEP up 10 per cent
15-May-2008Eversheds has seen both its revenues and average profit per partner (PEP) increase by 10 per cent.
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Dorsey & Whitney set for Australian launch
16-May-2008Minneapolis-based US firm Dorsey & Whitney is planning to launch an office in Sydney as its base for the Asian market.
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DWF turnover up nearly 11 per cent
White & Case boosts London salaries
Lovells revenues up 13 per cent
Edwards Angell launches UK patent team
Allen & Overy settles Jewish discrimination case
Scotland: Silver service
Freshfields corporate guru Barry O'Brien is back with a bang following his run-in with the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal - much to the delight of his colleagues
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Scotland: Border crossings
Scottish firms may be divided on the question of alternative business structures and expansion into the wider UK market, but the advent of the Legal Services Bill in England and Wales is prompting calls for a level playing field
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Attorney General: Lord Goldsmith
He's put BAE Systems behind him, but the former Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith's new role with Debevoise & Plimpton finds him contemplating a return to the courtroom
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Mishcon de Reya: Gold's standard
The fallout from Princess Diana's death almost spelled the end for Mishcon - but a decade on the firm is in robust health
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IP and TMT associates left behind in a promotion round to forget
Compared with last year, 2008 has been an unexceptional promotion round for many senior associates in the top 100 firms. But for those in the IP and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) departments, it was just another year of being almost completely overlooked.
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Why pay off your debt when it's cheaper to owe it to yourself?
Sainsbury's is aiming to close the gap between in-house and outside counsel. But its initiative has ruffled a few private practitioners' feathers
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Why pay off your debt when it's cheaper to owe it to yourself?
US and UK lawyers are divided over the legitimacy of loan buybacks
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Slaughters bucks tradition with female corporate head
The Women's Liberation Movement has come a long way since Millicent Fawcett's campaigning days - so much so that barely an eyebrow is raised when a top boardroom job is filled by a woman.
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Relationship Firms: European unions
Following Slaughters' best friends model, alliances are back in fashion. But they don't always run smoothly.
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Finance and global reach key as magic circle seeks inroads into US
Cracking the US legal market has been one of the toughest challenges faced by the UK's magic circle.
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Freshfields and White & Case: Outside influence
Banking partners Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz are no strangers to building a business from scratch. But can they help Freshfields catch up with the rest of the magic circle?
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The family seat
Emilio Cuatrecasas heads one of the top firms in Spain and he's in no hurry to link up with the Brits. Try telling Emilio Cuatrecasas that lawyers are not cut out to be entrepreneurs.
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Magnificent '07: The Lawyer US Top 50 2007
Despite, or perhaps even because of, the rocky trading conditions, 2007 will be remembered as a banner year for the top US law firms - as The Lawyer's exclusive research reveals
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Liberal thinking
FoxMandal Little is the first Indian law firm to launch in London. And with liberalisation on the horizon, international head Som Mandal is looking to take the City by storm
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Associates: The circle of life: Life after Freshfields
Partnership may no longer be for life, but can there be happiness after the magic circle?
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Lawyers' Music: Knowing the score
It's 25 years since the London Lawyers' Symphony Orchestra and Chorus started up and the ensemble celebrated with a gala concert in Spitalfields last week
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Associates: Children of the revolution
The quasi-feudal partnership structure of law firms has traditionally not always been conducive to democratic ideals.
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The Lawyer Transatlantic Elite
As Latham's and Skadden's $2bn performances show, the future is global. So which firms' strategies will be the ones to lift them into the hierarchy of the new worl order?
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HR Awards 2008: People power
The Academy Awards ceremony may be hanging in the balance, but fret not, replacement glamour is here in the shape of The Lawyer HR Awards, with a party to end all parties on 12 February 2008.
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21, Not out
Twenty one years on, we find out how the legal profession has treated the trainees who were just starting out back in 1987. Many of them are now among the biggest names in the law
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Slaughter and May: Saul power
Slaughter and May's new senior partner Chris Saul may be a breath of fresh air, but the firm's old-school strategy will remain
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Cadwalader: Eye of the storm
With its massive restructured finance practice, layoffs at Cadwalader were not a matter of if, but when. The hard-nosed firm is reaping the credit crunch whirlwind
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Get with the program: Eversheds' Tyco model sparks quiet revolution
One year on, Eversheds' Tyco deal is setting a standard that others are trying to follow.
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Top trials: Heavyweights ready to rumble
Last year was busy for litigators, but with plenty of loose ends to tie up and new battles on the horizon, 2008 should prove to be a knockout.
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Clifford Chance: Easy as one, two, three
As Clifford Chance shakes up and transforms the shape of its London practice groups, what effect will it have on the firm's internal culture and recruitment?
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Hall of Fame: The great and the good
As part of The Lawyer's 20th anniversary celebrations, we have launched the legal profession's Hall of Fame. This is the second instalment, covering L to Z.
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Cherie Booth QC: Matrix reloaded
She's moved out of No 10, but not out of the limelight. Cherie Booth QC reveals what's next on her agenda and has shunned the lure of the US dollar.
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Clifford Chance set to launch gay network
Clifford Chance is setting up a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender network just months after settling a sexual orientation discrimination claim from a former partner.
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15 New Bridge St-Lombard tie-up collapses
12-May-2008The merger between criminal set 15 New Bridge Street (15NBS) and commercial fraud specialist Lombard Chambers has dramatically collapsed.
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Rouse & Co founder in 7 Bedford Row move
Obituary: Marion Simmons QC
Clementi prompts first legal brokerage
2 Pump Ct elects crime specialist as new head
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