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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: All tied up

    The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.

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  • December 14, 2009 |

    Addleshaw Goddard

    Arguably the most successful national/City merger...

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    SNR Denton

    In June 2010 Dentons' partners voted in favour of a transformational transatlantic tie-up with US firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to create SNR Denton...

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Herbert Smith

    There IS a magic circle and this firm is not in it. But Herbert Smith is a class outfit and one of London's most effective high-enders, not to mention the City's top litigation shop. Could yet start to justify its own sales pitch.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    DLA Piper

    The transatlantic giant has become an increasingly omnipresent force of late - with or without post-merger financial integration.

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  • December 9, 2009 |

    Debt chaos signals the end of West's love affair with Dubai

    It was already looking somewhat strained, but now the West's love affair with the debt-fuelled desert oasis of Dubai has come to an abrupt halt. While the initial panic in response to the Dubai Government's decision two weeks ago to ask creditors for a debt standstill on the obligations of Dubai World has died down, there is no doubt the emirate's reputation as a business centre has taken a knock.

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  • December 9, 2009 |

    Morris: Reports of Dubai's death are greatly exaggerated

    "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" said Mark Twain when his obituary was published. And so might be said about Dubai. It doesn't mean the emirate isn't feeling lousy, but the story isn't finished - the patient is sick and the cure may be hard to find, but the schadenfreude and stereotyping do no justice to the problem. My firm - Denton Wilde Sapte - has for years been heavily committed to the Middle East, a region containing immense wealth and natural resources. The feedback from our clients - and we've been operating in the region since the early 1960s - is that, Dubai's role as a centre, a regional hub, and a tolerant and exciting place to live, will remain. If we judged the economic future of any city primarily by ostentation, profligacy and an excess of property speculation, then New York and London would be written off too. The fact is that there are some great and ingenious businesses in the emirate, and they will survive.

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  • December 8, 2009 |

    Mishcons boosts London office with Salans financial services partner hire

    Salans has lost a partner in its City office with financial services partner Jonathan Denton joining London law firm Mishcon de Reya today (10 December). Denton has been a partner with Salans since moving over as a partner from Wragge & Co's Birmingham office in 2004. His practice focuses on advising banks, building societies and other financial organisations on financial services authority regulatory requirements, as well as advising on debt capital markets and structured finance agreements.

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  • December 8, 2009 |

    RBS solidifies legal panel with 18 firms given three-year terms

    Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has finalised a review of its legal panel, with at least 18 law firms making the grade. The bank, which kicked off a review of its external advisers in the spring, is in the process of formalising the appointments, with firms waiting for written confirmation.

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  • December 4, 2009 |

    CMS Moscow cuts 30 jobs in Russian capital in second round of layoffs

    CMS Moscow has laid off 30 members of staff, including 10 fee earners, in a redundancy round which closed last week (27 November). News of the latest cuts comes as it emerges that the Moscow office has cut a total of 29 fee earner positions and 32 support staff roles throughout 2009, combining the current job losses with a previous round which closed in June.

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