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  • July 17, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 17/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and another law firm leader gets the Herding Cats treatment

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  • July 16, 2007 |

    Sidley strengthens in City with insurance hire

    Sidley Austin has strengthened its London office with the hire of Kendall Freeman contentious insurance partner Dorothy Cory-Wright, the firm announced today (16 July). Cory-Wright, who had been a partner at the City firm since 1991, will head up Sidley's fledgling London insurance and reinsurance disputes practice, which was formed earlier this year.

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  • July 6, 2007 |

    Barclays review keeps faith with familiar faces

    Barclays has unveiled its eagerly awaited new panel, with all the bank's main panel firms reappointed to its coveted main roster. Mandates for the bank's general advisory panel, which are set to run for two years, have been handed out once again to historical advisers to Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells, DLA Piper and Simmons & Simmons.

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  • July 2, 2007 |

    Manhattan duo lead latest monster take-private

    Manhattan rivals Sullivan & Cromwell and Weil Gotshal & Manges have bagged lead roles on the latest mega buy-out as communications group Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) is taken private in a C$51.7bn (£24.2bn) deal. Weil Gotshal is advising the purchasing consortium, which is being led by Teachers Private Capital and includes Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners. Sullivan is acting for the target, with M&A partners James Morphy, George Sampas and Donald Crawshaw spearheading the team.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Key Supreme Court ruling raises bar for class action stock claims

    US investors will find it harder to bring class actions against American companies in shareholder litigation after a Supreme Court hearing last week (21 June).

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  • June 5, 2007 |

    Class action giant to offer City internship

    Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll has struck a deal with the City Law School by offering two internships in its London office, further cementing the class action giant's footprint into the UK market. The two competition internships, which each have a sponsorship value of £5,000 last for three months and will be offered to students undertaking the school's international commercial law LLM.

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  • May 25, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 25/5/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; and the best readers' comments from Career Clinic.

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  • May 24, 2007 |

    Sidley hit with $39m fine over cookie cutter case

    Chicago leader Sidley Austin has been hit with a $39.4m (£20m) fine for its involvement in a controversial 'cookie cutter' tax shelter scheme - although the firm will not face criminal charges, it was announced yesterday (23 May). The Internal Revenue Service and US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said that it would differentiate between the actions of the firm and those of former Sidley tax partner Raymond J Ruble, who faces criminal charges over his role in the scheme.

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  • May 2, 2007 |

    Kirkland knocks Sidley with $1.3bn restructuring mandate

    Kirkland & Ellis has landed the lead role on the €1.3bn (£885m) Sea Containers restructuring, knocking fellow US rival Sidley Austin off the top spot. Sidley, which had been leading on the company's reorganisation, will now take a secondary role advising on securities issues of the restructuring.

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Blag your way through interview: Commercially conscious

    'Commercial awareness' is something that all of the top firms cite as key recruitment criteria - so if you are beginning to worry that you are not fully au fait with current goings-on in the legal market, Legal Week Student presents a crash course in this year's burning issues

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