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  • November 26, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown makes up 27 with two in London

    Mayer Brown has made up 27 associates to the firm's partnership, with two new partners made up in London. Construction associate James Fielden and insurance & reinsurance associate Andrew McGahey have both been promoted to partner at the firm's City arm.Mayer Brown's Washington DC office took the lion's share of promotions, with five associates made up.

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  • November 24, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 24/11/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and more

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  • November 21, 2008 |

    11 City jobs under threat in Mayer Brown cuts

    Mayer Brown and Squire Sanders & Dempsey have become the latest firms to make redundancies as the poor economic climate climate continues to force firms into cost-cutting measures. On Thursday (20 November) Mayer Brown laid off 33 lawyers and support staff. In a statement, the firm said: "We have asked 33 lawyers and some support and administrative staff in our US offices to leave the firm. This reduction does not include lawyers who were asked to leave this year through our performance review process. "Those affected by this decision are good lawyers who have made valuable contributions to the firm. We intend to give them access to outplacement services and other benefits and a substantial period of time to find another job."

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  • November 21, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 21/11/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and more

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  • November 20, 2008 |

    Latham makes triple partner hire from Mayer Brown

    Latham & Watkins has scored a major coup with a triple partner hire from Mayer Brown to boost the firm's investment fund practice. Kathleen Walsh and Andrea Schwartzman will join the firm's New York office as partners in the corporate department and Alan Van Dyke will join the firm's Chicago office as a partner in the tax department. The trio specialises in private investment fund formation for a variety of US and global clients. The investment fund practice is a global cross-practice group that consists of around 60 lawyers from different departments.

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  • November 14, 2008 |

    WilmerHale hits Frankfurt with Mayer Brown hires

    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has secured a Frankfurt launch with the hire of four high-profile partners from Mayer Brown, including two practice group heads. The firm has recruited Mayer Brown's co-head of corporate Ruediger Herrmann, intellectual property (IP) head Reinhart Lange, litigation partner Christofer Eggers and regulatory partner Hans-Georg Kamann and will also relocate Berlin corporate partner Christian Crones for the office launch.The new office will focus on corporate, IP, litigation and antitrust in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, energy and cleantech sectors.

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  • November 12, 2008 |

    Target practice

    On 26 June, 2007, Barry Colvert arrived at the midtown Manhattan office of Cooley Godward Kronish. Colvert is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who has given polygraph tests to Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, Soviet spy Aldrich Ames and former Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee.On this day, Colvert, now a private consultant, would administer a test to a major law firm partner. Cooley had hired the former FBI agent in a desperate attempt to stave off an indictment of their client, Joseph Collins, a senior partner at Mayer Brown. The 58-year-old Collins was being targeted by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York for his role in the scandal at Refco. The New York-based commodities trading firm collapsed in October 2005 after the discovery of massive internal fraud. Collins had been Refco's principal outside lawyer for more than 10 years, and prosecutors were building a case that the Mayer Brown partner was a party to the fraud.

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  • November 10, 2008 |

    Cads and Shearman shrink as US firms' growth slows

    Staff growth at America's largest law firms slowed in 2008, according to new research, with a host of major firms contracting in the face of the ailing economy. The National Law Journal's 250 survey, a closely-watched annual snapshot of staffing at the US's largest law firms, shows the group added 4.3% more lawyers over the last 12 months, down on the 5.6% growth in 2007.The 2007 gains represented the largest increase in lawyer numbers since 2001, when numbers ballooned by 8.2%. In 2006, law firm growth was 4%, while in 2005, it was 4.4%.DLA Piper held its position at the top of the list, with a total of 3,785 lawyers. It grew by 4.5% in 2008.

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  • November 6, 2008 |

    Stars at the Bar: Future stars at the Bar

    Who are the Inns of Court A-listers of the future? Dominic Carman meets 10 up-and-coming young barristers who are being tipped for the top

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  • November 5, 2008 |

    Analysis: Pulling it together

    DLA Piper has always been a firm in a hurry. In the mid-1980s Nigel Knowles, now co-chief executive of the firm, was busy earning his management stripes running Dibb Lupton Broomhead's office in Doncaster.Since then, Knowles - who became managing partner of the firm in 1996 - has been gambling DLA Piper's future on an unrelenting diet of growth and international expansion. First, a merger with Alsop Wilkinson (the firm that put the 'A' in DLA) delivered greater critical mass in London. Then came expansion in Europe, first through an alliance with local practices and later by opening DLA's own offices.

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