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  • May 7, 2010 |

    Debevoise adds City litigator to partnership

    Debevoise & Plimpton has made up four lawyers to its partnership, including one in the US firm's City base. Litigator Sophie Lamb will join the firm's partnership in London as of 1 July. Her practice focuses on complex litigation, commercial and investment treaty arbitration and public international law.

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  • May 5, 2010 |

    Top firms continue to churn out salaried partners as equity tightens

    Leading law firms have continued to aggressively expand their salaried partner ranks over the last three years as firms move to protect partner profits in the face of tough trading conditions. The total number of salaried partners at the UK top 30 firms increased by 17.6% between the 2007 and 2009 partnership rounds, according to research conducted by Legal Week. The figure increased even more dramatically for top 10 City law firms, rising by 22.1% during the period. In contrast, equity partner numbers only increased by 2.9% across the top 30 and by 0.5% across the top 10 City firms.

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  • April 29, 2010 |

    Simmons joins Standard Chartered UK roster after adviser review

    Simmons & Simmons has won a place on Standard Chartered's UK panel as the bank completes a review of its advisers. The UK top 15 law firm is the only new addition to the panel after the bank decided to reappoint all six of its current UK advisers.

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  • April 21, 2010 |

    Bakers hires Bird & Bird team to bolster Dutch tax practice

    Baker & McKenzie has streng-thened its Amsterdam tax practice with the hire of partner Jasper Helder and a three-lawyer team from Bird & Bird. Helder is set to join the international firm in the coming months, alongside senior associate Brian Mulier, associate Chiara Klaui and junior associate Goran Danilovic.

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  • April 16, 2010 |

    Bird & Bird promotions round sees 10 join partnership across Europe

    Bird & Bird has made up 10 lawyers in its annual promotions round, with just one joining the partnership in the City. The firm's office in The Hague has received the most promotions with three made up. Eggo Jan Rietema, Roelien van Neck, Manon Rieger-Jansen join the partnership in disputes, commercial and intellectual property respectively. Elsewhere, dispute resolution lawyer Jonathan Speed has been promoted in London, while the firm's Italy practice receives two new partners with banking and finance lawyers Stefano Febbi and Danilo Quattrocchi made up in Milan and Rome respectively.

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  • April 15, 2010 |

    Editor's comment: What the kids know

    A few weeks back, when writing about the storm in the teacup that accompanied the Superbrands rankings, I argued law firms have wider brands that reflect the general awareness of their business, which can be very different to the views of those with direct dealings with the firm. To follow up on that point, probably one of the best benchmarks any law firm can get of that wider brand is how students see them. After all, it is widely acknowledged that students, while being considerably more clued up than earlier generations about the bruising realities of commercial practice, still find it very hard to distinguish between individual law firms. (You can't hold that against them, since many clients have the same problem.)

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  • April 14, 2010 |

    Mishcons boosts corporate with Orrick hire

    Mishcon de Reya has bolstered its corporate team with the hire of Dean Poster from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Poster joined the London law firm as a partner this week (12 April) and will work alongside Mishcons' head of corporate Nick Davis, focusing on cross-border M&A and corporate real estate work.

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  • April 14, 2010 |

    3,000 students rank A&O, Eversheds and Bird & Bird as stand-out firms

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has edged past Clifford Chance (CC) to be rated as the most prestigious global law firm, according to a major study of student perceptions, with Bird & Bird and Eversheds also topping their respective categories. The flagship report from Legal Week's research arm asked students at leading universities and Graduate Diploma in Law course providers to identify the single firm they regarded as the 'most prestigious' in three primary categories: international law firms, City and national and regional.

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  • April 14, 2010 |

    What the kids know - some brands reach students, some don't

    A few weeks back, when writing about the storm in the teacup that accompanied the Superbrands rankings, I argued law firms have wider brands that reflect the general awareness of their business, which can be very different to the views of those with direct dealings with the firm. To follow up on that point, probably one of the best benchmarks any law firm can get of that wider brand is how students see them. After all, it is widely acknowledged that students, while being considerably more clued up than earlier generations about the bruising realities of commercial practice, still find it very hard to distinguish between individual law firms. (You can't hold that against them, since many clients have the same problem.)

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  • April 14, 2010 |

    IT: Invest to progress

    IT professionals from the top 50 law firms are optimistic about the year ahead and are looking to make new investments, according to a roundtable discussion on 18 March 2010 looking at the key findings of the Legal Week Intelligence IT Report 2009, in association with Rekoop.

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