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  • August 8, 2007 |

    Hair apparent

    As reported in Legal Week's soon to be pen-pal The American Lawyer, partners at Manhattan royalty Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton recently invited an editor from Glamour magazine over to discuss the dos and don'ts of 'corporate fashion' (if that's not too much of an oxymoron).

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  • August 1, 2007 |

    Morgan Lewis makes double hire in the City

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius has boosted its City offering with two partner hires. Saloni Joshi and Kate Habershon joined the firm this week (30 July) from Debevoise & Plimpton and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton respectively.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    MoFo hires DLA partner for employment team

    US firm Morrison & Foerster has strengthened its employment practice with the hire of DLA Piper partner Michael Frank. Frank, who will join the law firm's Palo Alto office, has advised on executive compensation matters on more than 150 transactions in the last 12 years. The West Coast firm also recently strengthened its Asia practice with the hire of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton corporate associate Edward Li and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison counsel Marcia Ellis. Both join as partners.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Germany: The Freshfields effect

    Freshfields' partnership shake-up means more than a flurry of CVs for recruiters - the effects of the firm's restructuring are being felt throughout Germany's main legal centres. James Illman reports

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Italy: The cult of personality

    Italy's lawyers see themselves as individuals, rather than cogs in the corporate wheel. Claire Ruckin analyses the management challenges this presents as Italy's firms go global

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Wages of spin

    Legal Week noted recently that UK and US legal markets were converging. And with London firms handing out substantial rises for assistants this year, that process has taken a considerable step forward as the gap between New York and City 'rates' narrows again.

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  • June 21, 2007 | International Edition

    US firms resist Weil-style pay hikes as salary market begins to fragment

    O'Melveny & Myers, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Hogan & Hartson have set their London associate salary rates, with the firms holding fast against the increases announced at Weil Gotshal & Manges last week. All three have remained in line with the mid-Atlantic newly-qualified rates set by White & Case (£76,000) and Shearman & Sterling (£75,000) earlier this year.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    US firms resist Weil-style pay hikes as salary market begins to fragment

    O'Melveny & Myers, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Hogan & Hartson have set their London associate salary rates, with the firms holding fast against the increases announced at Weil Gotshal & Manges last week. All three have remained in line with the mid-Atlantic newly-qualified rates set by White & Case (£76,000) and Shearman & Sterling (£75,000) earlier this year.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Summer surge gifts top City firms big-ticket IPOs

    A busy seven days for initial public offerings (IPOs) has gifted corporate mandates to a raft of City law firms as the number of companies coming to market surges before the summer break. White & Case, Norton Rose and Baker & McKenzie were among the main recipients of the listings, which had a combined value of more than £3bn.

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  • June 15, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal hikes NQ salaries by 20% to £90,000

    Weil Gotshal & Manges will pay its London newly-qualified lawyers £90,000 after boosting its salaries by 20% to pay the same level as many of Wall Street's elite. The mid-Atlantic firm internally announced the pay bands today (15 June) and has increased all other associate bands by around 17%. Salaries for three year-qualified lawyers have risen from £98,000 to £114,660.

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