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November 5, 2008 |
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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November 5, 2008 |
When Heller Ehrman partners gathered at Santa Barbara, California's Bacara Resort & Spa in March 2007, there was already reason to be concerned about the firm's future. Several practice areas were slow. The firm's national and global ambitions were in disarray. And partners were increasingly skeptical about management's ability to address the problems. But that weekend they were determined to laugh at this worrisome predicament. The final night of the retreat featured a $300,000 (£186,000) skit. Performers from the Los Angeles Opera, accompanied by a professional orchestra, portrayed chairman Matthew Larrabee (pictured) and other firm leaders frantically searching for a merger partner. "Some people were laughing, but I thought it was surreal," says one former partner.
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October 23, 2008 |
The number of law schools offering the new Bar entrance course, the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) looks set to increase, with Kaplan Law School - a joint venture operating with Nottingham Law School - considering whether to enter the market. The London college is to decide in the coming weeks whether or not to offer the Bar training course, after the Bar Standards Board (BSB) gave potential new providers until the end of the month to express their interest in offering the course.
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October 23, 2008 |
Dechert has strongly refuted repeated claims in the legal blogosphere that the firm has made a significant number of associate layoffs. Posters on the legal blog Above the Law have claimed that the top 25 US law firm has laid off between 13 and 80 associates since March of this year.Dechert chairman Barton Winokur (pictured) has denied these claims, saying the number of associates who have left the firm for any reason in the first nine months of the year was lower than in the same period in 2007.
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October 22, 2008 |
Ashurst has sealed a major role in one of the largest leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) in France this year, acting for the banks on a €1.9bn (£1.4bn) deal to buy a stake in power conversion company Converteam Group. The City law firm has advised HSBC, Natixis, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Societe Generale on their roles providing finance to private equity group LBO France to fund its acquisition of a one-third stake in Converteam. The Ashurst team was led by Paris-based finance partner Laurent Mabilat, assisted by corporate partner Bertrand Delaunay and tax partner Nadine Gelli. Frankfurt-based finance partner Stephan Kock and senior associate Miriam Petri also advised on the deal.
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October 15, 2008 |
They came in saris, cheongsams, and Muslim headscarves - plus the usual black tuxedos and glittering gowns. After cocktails and tapas in the marble halls of the National Art Museum of Catalonia, they streamed into a Roman amphitheatre for an intimate sit-down dinner for 400 colleagues and another 300 or so of their significant others.If Baker & McKenzie ever wanted a sideline, party planning could be just the ticket. That soiree in Barcelona last spring was just one of the frequent global shindigs that Bakers uses to unite its far-flung lawyers. This one brought together Bakers' European and Middle East partners, just a fraction of the firm's 700 partners and its approximately 3,000 associates and counsel, who hail from more than 60 countries and speak 70 languages.
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October 15, 2008 |
Clifford Chance (CC) has hired a new partner for its Asian litigation practice after taking Elaine Chen for its Hong Kong office from Mayer Brown JSM. Chen, who is a commercial and contentious tax litigator, rejoins fellow partner Brian Gilchrist, with whom she worked for more than 10 years at Mayer Brown JSM and who joined CC in May this year. Chen joined legacy firm Johnson Stokes & Master in 1997, becoming a partner in 2006. She is qualified in England and Wales and Hong Kong.
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October 15, 2008 |
Hogan & Hartson is set to launch two offices in California with the hire of a nine-partner group from Heller Ehrman. The firm will open offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley with the new hires, while two of the nine partners will join Hogan in New York. Four of the partners will join the new Silicon Valley office, while three will join in San Francisco along with one of counsel.The partners are spread across the securities, white-collar crime, consumer class action, antitrust, M&A and employment litigation practices.
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October 13, 2008 |
At least 100 Heller Ehrman employees were laid off on Friday (10 October), without receiving the 60 days' wages required by federal law or accrued vacation due under California law, reports The Recorder. Heller staff arriving at work on Friday received one of two emails, either notifying them that they had been laid off, effective immediately, or that the firm would be retaining their services for the time being. The emails did not address whether employees would be paid for accrued vacation or other wages owed to them under federal law. The layoffs were directed at staff not involved in client-service positions and lawyers who were already known to be leaving. At least some legal assistants, library staff, marketing staff, recruiting staff and the firm's group of about 10 IT trainers were laid off.
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October 8, 2008 |
US law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has launched a financial markets crisis group in response to the worsening economic conditions. It will keep clients up-to-date on the legal, political and regulatory issues that arise from the current turmoil in the financial markets. The centre will provide regular news alerts, answers to common questions, legal analysis of the latest issues and a round-up of legal and economic articles from across the internet. K&L Gates and Mayer Brown have launched similar initiatives.
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