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  • November 28, 2007 |

    Online special: City firms improving pro bono efforts but controversy rages over PR tactics

    City firms are becoming stronger converts to the pro bono cause, but conservative Brits still cannot quite get used to the US example of firm-wide ventures and hourly targets. Caroline Grimshaw reports on the latest Big Question survey

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Eversheds employment team cut from Virgin panel

    Eversheds has been dropped from Virgin's formal panel of UK legal advisers, Legal Week has learned, in what will be viewed as a set-back for the firm's employment practice.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Dentons appoints McAlpine as deputy as Dallas' Dubai relocation draws near

    Denton Wilde Sapte head of advocacy Rory McAlpine has been appointed as the firm's deputy chairman.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Lovells Dubai team ties up $1bn bond deal

    Lovells' Islamic finance team in Dubai has closed a $1bn (£490m) convertible Islamic bond deal, just five months after moving across from Denton Wilde Sapte to set up the office.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: Job (half) done

    News that Lovells, LG, Simmons & Simmons and Denton Wilde Sapte have either stuck by their leaders or are poised to do so raises intriguing questions about the direction in which these firms are heading.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Uncontested elections see Young and Morris retain pole positions at Lovells and Dentons

    Uncontested management elections at Lovells and Denton Wilde Sapte have seen John Young and Howard Morris re-elected to lead their respective firms.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Four more major UK firms post double-digit H1 growth

    Four UK law firms - Clifford Chance (CC), Simmons & Simmons, Denton Wilde Sapte and Osborne Clarke - are the latest to announce double-digit turnover growth for the first half of the year.

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  • November 12, 2007 |

    Simmons, Dentons in double-digit H1 growth

    City firms Denton Wilde Sapte and Simmons & Simmons have announced double-digit growth in turnover for the first half of the financial year. Dentons saw revenue increase by 10% for the most recent six-month period, while profits jumped by 24%. Simmons, meanwhile, said fee income had increased by 16% compared to the equivalent period last year.

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  • November 12, 2007 |

    Dentons chief Morris unopposed for new term

    Denton Wilde Sapte chief executive Howard Morris has been handed a second three-year term at the helm following an uncontested election. His new term will start in February 2008. Partners at the top 20 City law firm were asked in September to put their names forward if they wished to stand against Morris. However, as first reported on legalweek.com, it was widely expected that Morris would be retained for a second term unopposed.

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Norton Rose hits Dentons with Bi capture

    Norton Rose has boosted its Islamic finance team with the hire of rated capital markets partner Farmida Bi from City finance rival Denton Wilde Sapte. Bi resigned from the top 20 firm this week (6 November), although her departure date is subject to negotiation and she is likely to be required to serve a period of gardening leave.

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