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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Olswang ramps up telecoms team with regulatory veteran from Mayer Brown

    Olswang has strengthened its telecoms practice with the hire of respected Mayer Brown partner Rob Bratby, who joined the firm on 1 January.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Major US law firms bet on Obama to win 2008 presidential election race

    US law firms are throwing their financial muscle behind the Democrats' attempts to reach the White House, with the legal sector providing more funding to the party's leading candidates than any other industry.

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  • December 5, 2007 | International Edition

    Olswang finance push lures Sidley partner

    Olswang has hired Sidley Austin partner Steve Clark, as the top 30 City firm looks to give more prominence to its finance practice. Clark, who specialises in acquisition and real estate finance, joined Olswang as a partner from Sidley's City arm earlier this week.

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    Olswang finance push lures Sidley partner

    Olswang has hired Sidley Austin partner Steve Clark, as the top 30 City firm looks to give more prominence to its finance practice. Clark, who specialises in acquisition and real estate finance, joined Olswang as a partner from Sidley's City arm earlier this week.

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox 5/12/07...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; and partnership expert Clare Murray returns to Legal Village with a lesson in customer service

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    The long return

    There is a growing split between the domestic commercial work and finance-driven specialist services that the Republic of Ireland's elite band of commercial firms are offering to an international client base, drawn by the country's low corporate taxes.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    That failed bid for Sainsbury's: making life taste bitter

    When Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom won the lead role on the Qatar Investment Authority's (QIA's) £10.6bn bid for Sainsbury's through Delta Two, the mandate was understandably seen as a coup for the US firm's City arm. But with the deal's last-minute implosion there are recriminations and some questioning of the tactics of the bidders; where did it all go wrong for what looked like one of the most daring European deals of the year?

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    US firm settles age claim with GE rainmaker

    Winston & Strawn has settled on the eve of trial a lawsuit brought against it by a New York partner who claimed the firm broke a deal to exempt him from "decompression," a policy sharply reducing partners' pay after age 65, writes the New York Law Journal. Throughout the 1990s, Anthony LoFrisco, 74, was one of the law firm's highest-paid partners, based largely on his close relationship with former General Electric (GE) chairman John "Jack" Welch. According to a 1994 agreement with Chicago-based Winston, LoFrisco was to be paid an amount equal to at least 13% of the firm's GE billings.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Commentary: CC job cuts show finance lawyers must diversify or die

    When it emerged last week that Clifford Chance (CC) had blamed the credit crunch for the firm axing a six-lawyer team from its Manhattan HQ, eyebrows were raised for a number of reasons.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    The transformers

    It was ingenious and audacious, and officials at the Internal Revenue Service were upset.

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