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  • April 11, 2013 |

    Sexism and the City - why female lawyers are afraid to speak out against discrimination

    In her new book of feminist advice for women in the workplace, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the first woman on the social networking giant's board, acknowledges what many are afraid to admit publicly: "Women face real obstacles in the professional world, including blatant and subtle sexism, discrimination and sexual harassment." Readers of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead will know that Sandberg, a 43-year-old American mother of two, has fought for and won priority parking for pregnant women and picked lice out of her children's hair on a company jet.

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  • April 11, 2013 |

    Pinsents to cut 13 employment jobs in third round of post-McGrigors layoffs

    Pinsent Masons is set to lay off as many as 13 fee earners in its UK employment practice, in the firm's third round of redundancies since its merger with McGrigors went live last year.

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  • April 5, 2013 |

    Simmons strengthens City fraud team with Kingsley Napley hire

    Simmons & Simmons is boosting its crime, fraud and investigations team with the hire of Kingsley Napley criminal litigation partner Stephen Gentle. Gentle, who is top-ranked in Chambers and Partners for both UK cartel defence and corporate crime, joined Kingsley Napley in 1993, becoming a partner in 2001. He will join Simmons' nine-partner crime, fraud and investigations team, which is headed by Nick Benwell, in June.

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  • April 4, 2013 |

    Nabarro targets global growth with new role of international head

    Nabarro has appointed restructuring head Patricia Godfrey to the newly created role of head of international, alongside the appointment of the firm's first fixed-share partner to its board. Restructuring and insolvency chief Godfrey has taken up the head of international role for an initial three-year term, and will take responsibility for overseeing and implementing the firm's international strategy.

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  • April 4, 2013 |

    Addleshaw Goddard - ValueDynamics

    ValueDynamics, published by Addleshaw Goddard, is the first ever 'best practice' toolkit for General Counsel and Heads of Legal. Drawing on the experiences of 25 well-respected General Counsel, we have sought to describe the many and varied challenges facing GCs, and provide an evolving, practical toolkit of how best to structure, align and lead in-house legal functions.

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  • March 28, 2013 |

    Wragges, Field Fisher and Shoosmiths announce partner promotion rounds

    Wragge & Co and Shoosmiths have announced their new partner promotions, with both regional firms confirming slightly smaller rounds than last year. News of their promotions came as Field Fisher Waterhouse today (28 March) confirmed a six-strong haul split between London, Munich and Brussels. Wragges is making up two directors to partner from 1 May - compared with a trio of new partners last year. The promotions will see Birmingham intellectual property lawyer Kate Swaine and construction specialist Daniel Wood joining the partnership.

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  • March 27, 2013 |

    Addleshaws ramps up paralegal hiring with 30 set to join in three months

    Addleshaw Goddard is set to increase the size of its Manchester transaction services team (TST) by almost 50% over the coming months, as it looks to step up the amount of work carried out by the paralegal service. The firm is planning to hire 10 paralegals each month for the next three months, in a recruitment drive intended to bring headcount to 100. The team has already grown from five to 70 paralegals since launch in 2010, and the firm is considering relocating it to a separate Manchester base. The increase in manpower comes as part of a firmwide efficiency drive intended to result in the TST delivering at least 10% of its work by 2015.

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  • March 27, 2013 |

    Crunching the numbers - going behind the headline figures to look at the top 30's financial health

    Caroline Thorpe pores over the top 30 UK firms' LLP accounts covering the past two financial years and assesses their performance during the ongoing financial storms

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  • March 26, 2013 |

    Addleshaws makes up eight to partnership across UK offices

    Addleshaw Goddard has made up eight partners in its latest round of partner promotions, an increase on last year's round of six. Half of the promoted lawyers are based in the firm's London office with Louisa Caswell (litigation), Jon Cheney (professional practices), Alex Dumphy and Steve Mackie (both banking) all set to join the firm partnership as of 1 May.

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  • March 25, 2013 |

    Withers and Speechly Bircham confirm preliminary merger talks

    Withers and Speechly Bircham have confirmed that they are in early stage talks over a possible combination that could create a top 25 firm with revenues of around £170m. The firms issued a joint statement today confirming preliminary discussions are taking place after RollonFriday first reported the pair were talking about a combination on Friday (22 March).

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