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  • May 29, 2008 | International Edition

    Bird & Bird flies high with 24% revenue rise

    Bird & Bird has reported a revenue hike of almost 25% for the last financial year, with the firm today announcing that fee income hit £143m for the year ending 30 April, 2008. The top 25 firm has posted a 24% hike in turnover, equating to a £27.4m increase on last year's figure of £115.6m.

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  • May 22, 2008 | International Edition

    City leaders tough on promotions but expansive band powers forward

    Partner promotions across the top 10 City firms fell by 10% over the last financial year, according to Legal Week research which suggests law firms are already tightening their belts in preparation for a downturn.The group made up 207 partners in total compared with 231 in 2007, even though across the top 50 as a whole new partner promotions are marginally up on 2007.

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  • May 22, 2008 |

    City leaders tough on promotions but expansive band powers forward

    Partner promotions across the top 10 City firms fell by 10% over the last financial year, according to Legal Week research which suggests law firms are already tightening their belts in preparation for a downturn.The group made up 207 partners in total compared with 231 in 2007, even though across the top 50 as a whole new partner promotions are marginally up on 2007.

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  • May 21, 2008 |

    Partnership 2008: supersize vs size zero

    When you produce a piece of research covering 47 law firms and comprising more than 600 numbers there are, unsurprisingly, quite a few ways to work the…

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  • May 21, 2008 |

    Field Fisher nets Howrey litigation partner

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has moved to bolster its commercial litigation practice with the hire of Kit Jarvis from Howrey. Jarvis has joined from the London arm of the US firm, where he was also a partner.

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  • May 20, 2008 |

    2008 Assistant Pay League: a Legal Week Wiki special

    Who pays what and how. Your A-Z guide to the pay scales at the top UK and US firms.

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  • May 19, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 19/05/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; a new Career Clinic dilemma; and more

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  • May 15, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird sets up in CEE with tech hire

    Bird & Bird has launched a Central and Eastern European desk, with the hire of technology, media and telecoms (TMT) partner Stephen Kines in London. The firm hopes to relocate Kines and open an office in Prague later this year, although the details are yet to be finalised. Kines joined from Prague-based TMT firm Kines, which he co-founded in 2004 when he left Linklaters with a six-lawyer team.

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  • May 15, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird taps CMS for Madrid IP partner in bid for expansion

    Bird & Bird has bolstered its Madrid arm with the hire of a partner from the local network office of CMS. Miguel Rodriguez joined the firm last week from CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo, where he was the partner in charge of the intellectual property (IP), IT & media group.

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  • May 14, 2008 |

    Wrong arm of the law

    When Bill Lerach, Dickie Scruggs and Mel Weiss, once among the US's most feted class action lawyers, check into prison, each will be handed a uniform, photographed, fingerprinted and asked to disrobe for a mandatory cavity search. Whatever personal property they have will be taken from them and inventoried. It will either be held until their release or shipped back home. Inmates' families often report being startled when civilian clothing lands unannounced on their doorstep a few weeks after their loved one was incarcerated. Lerach, Scruggs and Weiss will be shown to their living quarters, most likely a bunk bed in a barracks-style dormitory typical of minimum-security camp facilities. The population is usually a mix of drug offenders, white-collar criminals and longer-term detainees approaching the end of their sentences. Fights are few; misbehaviour can mean transfer to a higher-security facility with bars, barbed wire and watchtowers.

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