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  • July 20, 2011 |

    Hogan Lovells strengthens Berlin corporate with five-lawyer hire

    Hogan Lovells has bulked up in Germany with the hire of a five-lawyer corporate team from local outfit Broich Bezzenberger. The team, which is led by partners Karin Arnold and Thomas Keul, joined Hogan Lovells' Berlin office earlier this week, alongside of counsel Gerold Bezzenberger and two associates.

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  • July 4, 2011 |

    Seven-strong Hogan Lovells team exits firm's Munich office to join DLA

    DLA Piper has bolstered its Munich office with the hire of a team of seven lawyers from Hogan Lovells. International arbitration counsel Thomas Gadtke and commercial and regulatory senior associate Thilo von Bodungen will join DLA as partners, with their start date yet to be confirmed.

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    SNR Denton – careful what you didn't wish for

    It's an irony that as SNR Denton faces a tough post-merger period, a fair number of partners seeking to explain the firm's struggles have sought to pin the blame on Denton Wilde Sapte's previous management. The argument goes that the UK firm persistently ducked addressing difficult performance issues in the years preceding its US merger. You can make a solid case for that assertion, but long-time Dentons-watchers are also likely to ask how much the firm as a whole was ready to stomach that sort of medicine.

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  • June 29, 2011 |

    The fall of Howrey - how did the leading US law firm lose its way?

    How did a leading US law firm that was 'in court every day' lose its way? Julie Triedman charts the fall of a legal empire

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  • June 21, 2011 |

    Long-serving Hogan Lovells partner joins Jones Day in Munich

    Jones Day has added to its German technology and media practice with the hire of a long-serving partner from Hogan Lovells. Wolfgang Buchner, who is a partner in Hogan Lovells' Munich intellectual property, media and technology (IPMT) practice group, is set to join Jones Day along with counsel Undine von Diemar. Their start date at Jones Day is yet to be decided.

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  • June 15, 2011 | International Edition

    Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

    Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends

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  • June 15, 2011 |

    Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

    Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends

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  • June 15, 2011 |

    Outriders - the US firms breaking away from the herd in the City

    A disparate band of US firms are breaking away from the herd to become a real competitive force in the City. Caroline Hill assesses how far they've come and the terrain ahead

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  • June 15, 2011 |

    Bushwhacked - advances by US firms in the City reach an ominous stage

    Legal Week's in depth strand has been timely of late. While May's focus on libel and privacy coincided with sustained hysteria about injunctions, this month's international firms in London focus comes as Weil Gotshal & Manges pulls off arguably the most significant City raid yet inflicted on a leading UK law firm. If nothing else, the resignation of a four-partner funds team from Clifford Chance (CC) is evidence that a select band of US law firms is becoming a steadily more menacing threat to the City's finest.

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  • June 10, 2011 |

    The case for self-regulation of social media

    If ever there was a subject which has almost been blogged to death, it must be the CTB v News Group injunction story, with a bit of disclosure action against Unknown Persons thrown in for good measure. Fortunately, the lawyerly inclusion of the word "almost" gives me wriggle room to give the horse one last flog.

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