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  • September 3, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 04/09/08...

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

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  • September 2, 2008 |

    LG tax partner switches to Boodle Hatfield

    Regional firm Boodle Hatfield has boosted its tax capacity with the hire of LG tax and private capital partner Karen Marks. Marks made the switch last month (18 August), joining Boodle Hatfield's international private client team. Her practice focuses on international tax and trust planning, acting for clients including offshore trustees, private banks and financial institutions, entrepreneurs and investment bankers. She also advises on offshore structures and relocation to and from the UK.She joined LG in 1999 and was promoted to the partnership in May 2003.

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  • September 1, 2008 |

    Heller Ehrman and Mayer Brown in merger talks

    Just two weeks after merger talks with Baker & McKenzie broke down due to conflicts, Heller Ehrmann...

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  • September 1, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 01/09/08...

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

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  • August 29, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 29/08/08...

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

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  • August 28, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown JSM added to HSBC's SmartSearch knowledge database

    Banking giant HSBC has signed up Mayer Brown JSM to its knowledge-sharing venture, taking the tally of law firms sharing legal know-how with the bank to 11. HSBC officially rolled out its SmartSearch software, which allows its in-house legal team to access know-how and precedents at panel firms, in January with 10 panel firms. Mayer Brown's data will now be available to HSBC by the end of the month.

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  • August 27, 2008 |

    Eyeing the door

    When Arnold & Porter's director of professional development, Caren Ulrich Stacy, started working in law firm recruiting in the mid-1990s, she says there was one question she could count on hearing from every incoming associate, be it a new law school recruit or a potential lateral hire: how long does it take to make partner here? Today, Ulrich Stacy says, it goes largely unasked. "I have maybe had that question once in the past five years," she says.Why doesn't anyone ask the partnership question any more? It's not the well-documented reluctance of big law firms to make new equity partners. In The American Lawyer's most recent mid-level associate survey, which polled 7,259 respondents from 180 firms, more than 70% of respondents said they are on their firm's partnership track, and only a few indicated they strongly view partnership as an impossibility.

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  • August 26, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown loses restructuring chief to Orrick

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired the co-chair of Mayer Brown's restructuring and bankruptcy practice, Raniero "Ron" D'Aversa Jr.

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  • August 7, 2008 |

    Stephenson Harwood shelves plans for new City HQ in cautious move

    Stephenson Harwood has postponed plans to move into new London headquarters, with the City firm instead opting to extend its current lease on One St. Paul's Churchyard until 2013. The top 40 firm was expected to move into new premises in either Bath House, Holborn or 107 Cheapside in 2011 but has decided against a move for financial reasons.

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  • August 4, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird signs up McDermott Brussels head

    Bird & Bird has taken McDermott Will & Emery's Brussels head Jose Rivas, less than two years after the competition partner joined the US firm from Hammonds. The Spanish-qualified partner has joined Bird & Bird along with Danish-qualified EU law and competition partner Morten Nissen, with Rivas set to head Bird & Bird's Brussels competition group.

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