The Lawyer
23 January 2012
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Adverse conditions
23 January 2012
Costa Concordia incident is a stark illustration of the importance of tort law
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Case of the week: Employment
23 January 2012
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Data overload
23 January 2012
New EU data protection legislation is likely to hit businesses hard
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DWF
23 January 2012
Even without the Cobbetts tie-up, DWF has been on a growth spurt. Will it last?
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Focus: A Farr fetched alliance
23 January 2012
With the one-stop shop increasingly de rigueur and cross-border alliances looking like yesterday’s model, is it time for Willkie Farr and Dickson Minto to consign their tie-up to the scrapheap?
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Halliwells: picking at the carcass
23 January 2012
The battle to claw back monies from ex-equity partners has put creditors and former fixed-share partners at loggerheads.
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Insult to injury
23 January 2012
What will happen to personal injury claims in the Coalition’s war on ’compensation culture’?
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Job watch: South West/Bristol
23 January 2012
As trainees and newly qualified associates alike face increasingly stiff competition in the City, there are many good reasons for young lawyers to look further west.
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Judgment call: 23 January 2012
23 January 2012
Bezier Acquisitions Ltd, Re (2011) EWHC 3299, 6 January 2012. Chancery Division, Companies Court. Norris, J.
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Norton Rose's merger anatomy
26-Jan-2012
Four mergers in two years mean a tough integration job, but Norton Rose has found the perfect solution: a speed-dating style session to help get the head of a key practice group to know his or her team.
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Number crunching: Addleshaw Goddard
23 January 2012
Earlier this month Addleshaw Goddard announced that managing partner Paul Devitt would continue for a second term in the role. Devitt breezed back into office in an uncontested election, even though the firm has had a tough downturn.
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On the move
23 January 2012
Ashurst is set to lose heavyweight City projects partner John Inglis to US firm Shearman & Sterling’s energy and resources practice.
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Outgrowing your friends
23 January 2012
I yield to no one in my delight that Nabarro has secured another alliance member, in the shape of Spanish firm Roca Junyent.
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Politically correct
23 January 2012
Efficiency is the watchword for Treasury Solicitor Paul Jenkins, as he and his team keep their government clients on the legal straight and narrow
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Retired and emotional
23 January 2012
Seldon age discrimination case could prove Supreme acid test for compulsory retirement
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The Hot100 Party 2012
23 January 2012
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The Lawyer business: Kemp Little
23 January 2012
Siddhartha Mankad joined technology and digital media firm Kemp Little as its first chief operating officer (COO) last summer. Mankad joined as a fixed-share partner and a member of Kemp Little’s management board.
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Three into one
23 January 2012
Consolidation is continuing in the Baltic states as firms respond to businesses’ requirements for a one-stop shop service across the region
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Thriving in adversity
23 January 2012
With clashes predicted relating to the Lisbon Treaty, heightened regulation and banks calling in debt, litigators will be rolling up their sleeves in 2012
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Well-documented: court cloud system gets fans on Berezovsky
23 January 2012
With 15,000 pre-trial documents totalling 200,000 pages, the battle of the Russian oligarchs was the ideal testing ground for the latest case-management technology
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Work-life quiz
23 January 2012
What was your first-ever job? A Saturday job waitressing when I was 14.
