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  • September 15, 2011 |

    Bird & Bird Paris partner duo exit to join Salans

    Two senior Bird & Bird partners have left the firm's Paris office to join Salans in the French capital. Intellectual property (IP) partner Isabelle Leroux and tax partner Anne Quenedey joined Salans on 1 September, bringing with them three associates each as well as one counsel.

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  • August 31, 2011 |

    Rising from the rubble - the Arab Spring becomes a summer

    The Arab Spring has become a summer. More than six months since a solitary act of protest in Tunisia became the catalyst for widespread political unrest that swept throughout much of the Arab world, the swelling tide of uprisings in the Middle East continues. As the Muslim month of fasting comes to an end, the region is radically different to how it was one year ago. A violent transformation has taken place: dictators have fallen, dynamics have shifted and the institutional setup of the region has been radically altered. Most pressingly for the legal sector, markets in places such as Bahrain, Egypt and Libya have been hit hard.

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  • August 30, 2011 |

    Hogan Lovells media team joins Bird & Bird's new Hamburg base

    Bird & Bird has more than doubled the size of its new Hamburg office with the hire of an 11-lawyer media and telecoms team from Hogan Lovells. The team is led by media and competition partner Stefan Engels, who co-heads Hogan Lovells' international technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector group.

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  • August 11, 2011 |

    SNR Denton boosts London energy team with Linklaters hire

    SNR Denton has added a partner to its London office with the hire of Linklaters counsel Mark Cheney. The energy-focused project finance lawyer, who trained and qualified at Linklaters before reaching the rank of counsel, joins SNR Denton's partnership in the firm's energy, transport and infrastructure team.

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  • August 5, 2011 |

    DLA, Charles Russell and Mishcons win spots on Olympic pro bono panel

    DLA Piper, Charles Russell and Mishcon de Reya are among a roster of 17 law firms and chambers to win places on the pro bono panel for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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  • August 3, 2011 |

    Bird & Bird takes lead role as holiday company goes into administration

    Bird & Bird has been handed a lead role on the administration of tour operator Holidays 4 UK. The Brighton-based travel company, which has more than 12,000 customers currently abroad, went into administration today (3 August), with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) appointed to oversee the process.

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  • July 27, 2011 |

    Bird & Bird to target international expansion and key clients in three-year plan

    Bird & Bird has put international expansion and client relationships at the centre of its three-year strategic plan. The firm is earmarking Asia and the Middle East as targets for growth, with team expansion and office launches forming key parts of the plan, which will run from June 2011 to 2014.

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  • July 25, 2011 |

    Edwards Angell adds partner in London with Bird & Bird hire

    Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has added a partner to its London intellectual property (IP) department with the hire of Richard Graham from Bird & Bird. Graham, who joined the US firm's information technology and outsourcing function within its IP practice today (25 July), has been a lawyer in Bird & Bird's commercial group since 2004.

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  • July 20, 2011 |

    Bird & Bird, Clydes and Freshfields emerge as star performers over five-year run

    Bird & Bird, Clyde & Co, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and DLA Piper have emerged among the best-performing firms in the top 25 over the last five years, but Legal Week research confirms that many smaller firms have outpaced their larger rivals in growth terms. Of the UK's top 25 law firms, Bird & Bird has seen the largest percentage jump in revenues since 2005-06, rising 121.9% from £96.7m five years ago to £214.6m in 2010-11.

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  • July 20, 2011 |

    The rise of the technophile - why IT teams will have to learn to love personalisation

    Since law firms started providing IT systems and services to their employees, those firms have dictated which device would be used. Over the decades of in-house IT systems and services, the nature of those devices has changed very little. A large proportion of the static working population have used desktop machines for years – yes, they are smaller, much more powerful and have a much wider range of services, but they remain fundamentally the same. The user gets a screen – flat and much larger, a processing unit – now small and often hidden away, and a keyboard with a mouse.

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