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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Leading lawyers lay predictions bare as year of the credit crunch comes to a close

    Leading partners sum up the year just gone and the year ahead: will 2007 be remembered for anything other than the credit crunch?

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  • December 10, 2007 |

    Norton Rose seals Saudi tie-up in Gulf push

    Norton Rose has secured an alliance with Saudi Arabian practice Abdulaziz Al-Assaf in a move set to boost the top 10 City law firm's profile in the Middle East. The deal with Riyadh-based Abdulaziz, which has 15 lawyers, hands Norton Rose a presence in a third Middle Eastern jurisdiction alongside existing bases in Dubai and Bahrain. The deal goes live on 1 January, 2008, with Norton Rose having previously acted alongside the Saudi outfit on a number of occasions.

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    Norton Rose partner takes Lloyds TSB top role

    Norton Rose corporate partner Margaret Coltman has scooped one of the most coveted in-house legal positions in the UK, taking the combined role of general counsel and company secretary at Lloyds TSB.

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    A year in Paris

    Plus ca change; plus c'est la meme chose. An old adage maybe, but an apt summary by one managing partner of the past year for France's independent law firms.

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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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