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  • April 4, 2012 | International Edition

    The agenda - sizing up the profession's efforts to tackle social diversity

    The legal profession has finally put social diversity 'on the agenda'. Georgina Stanley asks if it will be enough to counter an increasingly unequal British society

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  • April 4, 2012 |

    The agenda - sizing up the profession's efforts to tackle social diversity

    The legal profession has finally put social diversity 'on the agenda'. Georgina Stanley asks if it will be enough to counter an increasingly unequal British society

    1 minute read

  • April 4, 2012 |

    PRIME membership rises to 75 as firms push forward on diversity

    Weil Gotshal & Manges, Baker & McKenzie, White & Case, Reed Smith and Olswang are among a host of firms signing up to social mobility initiative PRIME, with 75 now committed to the scheme. The increased tally means PRIME - which is intended to raise the aspirations of students from under-privileged backgrounds by encouraging them to consider careers in the legal sector - has tripled the number of participating law firms since it launched in September last year.

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  • March 22, 2012 |

    Mayer Brown set to shield billings from currency fluctuations

    Mayer Brown is looking to introduce new financial hedging products that would allow the firm to protect its billings from fluctuating currency values. The US law firm, which last year hired a global treasury manager to centralise its approach, is considering whether to introduce new bank products that would allow it to exchange dollars or euros into sterling at a pre-determined fixed rate for a number of years.

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  • March 22, 2012 |

    Access Asia - the startling comeback of Singapore as a global law hub

    Once derided for unwieldy Bar regulations, Singapore has staged a startling comeback as a legal centre. Helen Mooney reports

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  • March 19, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: latest moves including BLP, Mayer Brown and DLA

    Simmons & Simmons has hired another partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) in London, with the recruitment of real estate specialist John Kelsey taking the number of partners the firm has hired from BLP to seven in less than a year. Kelsey specialises in real estate investment and development work as well as real estate finance and restructuring advice.

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  • March 15, 2012 |

    Aggressive US firms push London partner hiring to five-year high

    Partner hiring by US firms in London increased by over 25% in 2011, with firms adding more partners to their City bases than at any time over the last five years. Legal Week's annual survey of hiring trends at the City operations of some of the largest US and transatlantic firms found there were 116 partner hires during 2011 across the 45 firms taking part in the survey. The overwhelming majority of these (101) were partners at their previous firms.

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  • March 15, 2012 |

    US players grow London footprint as partner presence rises almost 10%

    US law firms grew their partner count in the City by close to 10% during 2011 as they continued to increase their share of the European legal market. Legal Week's research into the hiring activity and penetration of US firms in London found total partner count at the 45 US and transatlantic firms in London taking part in the survey increased by 91 in the year to January 2012, to 1,199.

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  • March 8, 2012 |

    Clydes advises Liverpool FC's former owners on RBS lawsuit

    Clyde & Co and 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) have won roles on the multimillion-pound dispute between Liverpool FC's former owners and RBS. Clydes is advising US businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillet, who claim that they lost around £140m when they were pushed into the sale of Liverpool FC by RBS in 2010, arguing that the club was sold at a significant undervalue.

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  • March 1, 2012 |

    With all the buzz around UK tie-ups, will US firms head Down Under anytime soon?

    "Not a week goes by that we are not approached by an international firm" - as Australia shoots up the agenda for UK firms, will US rivals end their resistance to the Oz push?

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