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  • March 17, 2010 |

    Pharmaceuticals: The game changer

    The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rapidly changing market

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  • March 17, 2010 |

    Pharmaceuticals: Shocks to the system

    The pharmaceutical industry is going through a turbulent period. Patents protecting companies' blockbuster drugs are expiring - according to consultancy firm Evaluate Pharma, around half of the $383bn (£255bn)-worth of patented drugs sold worldwide last year will lose patent protection in the next five years - while barriers preventing makers of generic drugs from selling their own versions of leading products continue to fall.

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  • March 10, 2010 |

    Norton Rose adds partner in Singapore with Links hire

    Norton Rose has hired a new partner who will relocate to Singapore to head up the firm's local insurance practice. Anna Tipping is set to join Norton Rose as a partner from Linklaters' City base, where she was a counsel.

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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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