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  • June 13, 2013 |

    The building blocks to create and sustain value from the right organisational structure

    Getting the right building blocks in place to create and sustain value from the right organisational structure is a key challenge for the modern day GC. Clearly, the CEO/Board will have a major influence on how the legal function should be structured and you will have to find a way of fitting your preferred solution into the jigsaw puzzle that is the wider organisation around you. This article explores ways of approaching The Structural Challenge over the course of a 6-12 month period.

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  • June 10, 2013 |

    Keeping it practical when structuring your resources

    Through their discussions with the ValueDynamics panel, Addleshaw Goddard have collated the top hints and tips in addressing The Structural Challenge.

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  • June 10, 2013 |

    ValueDynamics - the structural challenge

    In this, the second article of the ValueDynamics series, Addleshaw Goddard considers the second of four sections of the study: the Structural Challenge. The Structural Challenge supports the Value and Performance challenges and enables General Counsels to address the fundamental area of identifying and developing the right structure for your in-house legal team.

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  • June 6, 2013 |

    Post-recession recovery falters as growth dwindles across UK top 100

    The UK's top 100 law firms saw revenue growth in 2012-13 fall to less than half of that seen last year, with fee income across the group climbing by just 2.6%, as confirmation of the first formal financial results begins to trickle out from the country's top firms. Deloitte's latest quarterly law firm survey found the UK top 100 concluded 2012-13 with a year-on-year Q4 turnover increase of 2.4% – the slowest quarterly growth since October 2010. The average fee income increase of 2.6% across the group for the full financial year – which compares with growth of 6.6% last year – masks a host of disparities between firms. Notably, those in the top 10 saw revenues climb by only 1.5%, compared with 4% in the 11-25 category and 2% in the 26-50 group.

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  • June 4, 2013 |

    The structural challenge

    In this, the second article in the ValueDynamics series, Addleshaw Goddard considers the second of four sections of the study: the Structural Challenge. The Structural Challenge supports the Value and Performance challenges and enables General Counsels (GCs) to address the fundamental area of identifying and developing the right structure for your in-house legal team.

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  • June 3, 2013 |

    Addleshaws signs formal alliance with Japan best friend in Asia push

    Addleshaw Goddard has entered into a formal alliance with its Japanese best friend Hashidate Law Office, as part of a new initiative to ramp up its overseas capabilities. The 750-lawyer firm, which recently launched a new international division led by private equity partner Andrew Carpenter to spearhead its expansion outside of the UK, has had a best friends relationship with Hashidate for 15 years.

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  • May 31, 2013 |

    Addleshaws sees PEP rise 2% as revenue dips 2% after expansive year

    Addleshaw Goddard has posted a 2% drop in turnover for the 2012-13 financial year, alongside a 2% increase in profits per equity partner (PEP). Despite the slight drop in fee income, which fell from £169.5m to £167m, PEP has risen for the second year in succession, up to £457,000 from £446,000. The firm added that its margin stood at 27%, up from 26.5% in 2011-12.

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  • May 30, 2013 |

    Addleshaws acts as Britvic moves into India market

    Addleshaw Goddard has taken a key role on Britvic's distribution agreement with new Indian partner Narang Group, in a deal that marks the soft drinks company's first foray into India. The deal involves the India sales and distribution of Britvic's Fruit Shoot drink product and is due to get underway next year. Britvic, the producer of popular brands such as Robinsons squash, R White's Lemonade and Tango, expects to set up a 10-strong team in India to work on the deal.

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  • May 30, 2013 |

    The fight for fairness – what are law firms doing to tackle the gender pay gap?

    Lawyers have a problem with equal pay – and it's a big one. More than 40 years on from the Equal Pay Act, women in private practice are paid a startling 26.7% less than their male counterparts. The finding, from a new Law Society study of solicitors' salaries in 2012, compares badly with the national picture: the law's gender pay gap is well over double the 9.6% difference between men and women's pay across the UK as a whole, as reported by the Office for National Statistics.

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  • May 28, 2013 |

    Withers appoints first-ever US chairman as Indaimo steps down

    Withers New York chief Ivan Sacks has been appointed as the firm's first US-based chair, as Anthony Indaimo prepares to step down this July. After two three-year terms in the chairman role, Indaimo is handing over to Sacks, the firm's US senior partner, as of 1 July this year.

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