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  • March 10, 2010 |

    Harbottle bulks up media practice with Reed Smith partner duo

    Harbottle & Lewis has recruited two television and film partners from Reed Smith. Jonathan Berger and Peter Armstrong joined the media and entertainment specialists as partners last month.

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  • March 3, 2010 |

    Reed Smith hires team for advertising practice

    Reed Smith has taken steps to bolster its advertising law capability in London, with the hire of a team from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). Marina Palomba, legal director of the IPA, has joined the firm as a partner in it's advertising group along with two associates.

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  • March 3, 2010 |

    GTM brought in 15 new partners in 2009, leading US firm hires in the City

    Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) emerged as the most active US law firm in London in terms of lateral partner hiring last year, with the new City entrant responsible for a quarter of all partner-level hiring activity.

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  • March 3, 2010 | International Edition

    US firms paused expansion in 2009 but are back on the hunt

    As Legal Week's survey of lateral hiring by US firms in London recently demonstrated, partner moves were thin on the ground in 2009, at least by the yardstick of recent years. The research found 59 hires across 37 of the largest US firms. This was substantially down on the senior recruitment seen at US firms over the last five years - this group managed 77 partner hires in 2008 - but in many ways it is surprising that the figure wasn't even lower. Lateral hiring virtually shut down in the first half of 2009 as firms drastically slashed costs in the worst phase of the global recession. The second half of the year, which saw an aggressive hiring spree from Greenberg Traurig Maher claim no less than 15 partners, was pretty active in contrast.

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  • March 3, 2010 |

    US firms paused expansion in 2009 but are back on the hunt

    As Legal Week's survey of lateral hiring by US firms in London recently demonstrated, partner moves were thin on the ground in 2009, at least by the yardstick of recent years. The research found 59 hires across 37 of the largest US firms. This was substantially down on the senior recruitment seen at US firms over the last five years - this group managed 77 partner hires in 2008 - but in many ways it is surprising that the figure wasn't even lower. Lateral hiring virtually shut down in the first half of 2009 as firms drastically slashed costs in the worst phase of the global recession. The second half of the year, which saw an aggressive hiring spree from Greenberg Traurig Maher claim no less than 15 partners, was pretty active in contrast.

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  • February 25, 2010 |

    QC appointments round sees almost 50% of applicants take silk status

    The latest round of QC appointments has been announced today (26 February), with 129 barristers claiming the elite kitemark. One hundred and twenty nine out of a total of 275 applicants have been awarded QC status, a success rate of 47% - up on last year's rate of 42% and the equivalent figure of 29% for 2007-08.

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  • February 24, 2010 |

    US firms scale back City recruitment as lateral hires fall to five-year low

    Lateral partner hiring by US firms in London fell to its lowest level since 2004 last year, according to new research from Legal Week. A survey of hiring trends at the City operations of 37 of the biggest US and transatlantic firms found there were just 59 lateral partner moves across the whole of 2009, with many firms shying away from expansion against the backdrop of the global recession.

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  • February 10, 2010 | International Edition

    Women in law: Role models

    "When I first started out I was doing a range of work - it was excellent exposure and I had to grow up very fast. It was the boom time in the late 80s and I decided to try my hand at a bigger firm. It was intimidating at first - every second person seemed to be public school and I thought I'd made a mistake. But I realised it was a lot more diverse, grew to love it and got involved in all sorts of interesting work. I haven't looked back."

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  • January 28, 2010 |

    Reed Smith sees partner profits rise to $1m mark as revenues fall

    Reed Smith has posted its financial results for 2009, with the firm reaching the $1m (£619,000) profits per equity partner mark for the first time, reports The Am Law Daily. However, while profits increased by 7%, revenues dipped by 3.8% to $942m (£583m).

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  • January 27, 2010 |

    Lovells brings in former Reed Smith partner to build Middle East practice

    Lovells has hired former Reed Smith partner Stephen York to head up its Middle East dispute resolution practice. York, who left Reed Smith's London office last autumn, will join Lovells next week (1 February) as a consultant, with a brief to grow the firm's regional disputes practice.

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