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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Four more major UK firms post double-digit H1 growth

    Four UK law firms - Clifford Chance (CC), Simmons & Simmons, Denton Wilde Sapte and Osborne Clarke - are the latest to announce double-digit turnover growth for the first half of the year.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Bird & Bird taps Simmons for four-lawyer team

    Bird & Bird has tapped Simmons & Simmons for a four-lawyer team to launch a dedicated trade and customs practice in its office in The Hague. The team, led by partner Jasper Helder, will work closely with Bird & Bird's existing intellectual property, tax, regulatory and competition teams. Also joining Bird & Bird is associate Tim Hesselink.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Global calling

    BT Global Services' worldwide expansion is helping the communications giant to make new contacts outside of the increasingly competitive UK recruitment scene, as general counsel Tim Cowen tells Michelle Madsen

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Code comfort

    "Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below." So wrote John Dryden in 1678. And so, too, every solicitor makes minor mistakes in his day-to-day work - inconsequential errors and misjudgements. But so what, you may ask, if beneath the surface the client is getting the pearls of a first-rate job? And let us not forget that the standard is generally very high. Clients are, by and large, well served.

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    CC matches City pace with 18% H1 growth

    Magic circle giant Clifford Chance (CC) is the latest to report its half year results with the firm announcing an 18% rise in H1 turnover for 2007-08, taking its revenue for the period up to around £680m. The percentage increase matches that of fellow magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is ahead of arch City rival Allen & Overy, which recorded a 16% increase in turnover. The results put those firms' revenues for the period at £560m and £456m respectively.

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Beachcroft works pro bono on school project

    Beachcroft has deployed a 90-lawyer team to work with property client Balfour Beatty on a pro bono project to renovate a primary school in the West Midlands. The national firm provided lawyers from its London, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol offices and raised a total of £13,000 for the project, which was designed as an alternative to a traditional staff away-day.

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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 24/10/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Travers Smith, Linklaters and DLA Piper among the movers and shakers

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Bird & Bird hires Links partner for German push

    Bird & Bird has strengthened its German practice with the hire of senior Linklaters IT partner Joerg-Alexander Paul, as the City law firm continues to aggressively grow its European practice.

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