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  • January 16, 2008 |

    London lawyers fare well in US firms' latest partnership promotions round

    London lawyers have made up around 10% of US firms' overall partnership additions in the latest promotions round. The latest firms to announce their promotions are Dechert, Jones Day and McDermott Will & Emery, which between them have named 98 lawyers as partners worldwide, although only nine of those are London based.

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  • January 16, 2008 |

    Restructuring leads US lateral round in early '08

    The first two weeks of 2008 already have marked an abundance of lateral hires among partners making a switch for better opportunities - or so they hope - at some of the US' biggest law firms, writes the National Law Journal. Each January, law firms issue a deluge of announcements that tout the successes of incoming lateral partners wooed from competitors. The first month of the year is particularly popular for such moves, since those lawyers have closed out the previous year at their old firms and can start fresh at their new firms.

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    The firm that came in from the cold

    Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the West's - and in particular America's - media bias against Russia, the 38-year-old managing partner of Moscow's fast-rising Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners becomes animated.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Dechert scores role on long-running RUSAL dispute

    Dechert's City arm has been instructed in place of Stephenson Harwood in a long-running dispute between two Russian businessmen for a 20% stake of aluminium giant RUSAL.

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Profession gears up for sixth Pro Bono Week

    A raft of major UK law firms have unveiled plans to ramp up their not-for-profit activities from Monday (12 November) to coincide with the sixth National Pro Bono Week. The programme, which this year will focus on international pro bono and how to involve law students in pro bono projects, is to feature more than 30 events across the UK - including the first-ever National Pro Bono Conference at London's QEII conference centre.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 7/11/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Norton Rose and Travers Smith among the movers and shakers

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  • October 19, 2007 |

    Its good to talk

    "People increasingly ask employers 'what can you do for me?'" says Clare Roberts, a human resources (HR) consultant with PA Consulting. "Ten years ago, that would have been unheard of. They have a different attitude to work and employers are having to rethink their proposition to potential recruits."

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 17/10/07...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; another missive from the West End by BSB chair Mark Stobbs; and all the deals you can digest

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  • October 12, 2007 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: Weekend Special 12/10/07...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts and a Friday-sized chunk of legalistic fun

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    McDermott, Dechert kick off new City pay push

    A group of US firms are gearing up for a round of London associate salary rises with McDermott Will & Emery and Dechert the first to increase pay rates to keep up with City competition.

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