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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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  • July 28, 2008 | International Edition

    LG builds real estate with Faegre recruit

    LG has become the latest firm to benefit from a stream of departures from Faegre & Benson's City practice, after taking on real estate partner Malcolm Headley.

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  • July 28, 2008 |

    LG builds real estate with Faegre recruit

    LG has become the latest firm to benefit from a stream of departures from Faegre & Benson's City practice, after taking on real estate partner Malcolm Headley.

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  • July 24, 2008 |

    LG partner joins Mayer Brown City corporate

    Mayer Brown has bolstered its City corporate team with the hire of a partner from LG. Martin Mankabady is set to join Mayer Brown next week (28 July) from LG, where he has been a partner since 2004. This latest hire takes the number of partners in Mayer Brown's London office to 120 - 48 of whom are in the corporate group.

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  • July 24, 2008 |

    Equitable trio set to head up Mayer Brown global accountancy practice

    Mayer Brown has launched a new global accountancy group with a team of lawyers from its litigation and insolvency practices. The initiative, which is being spearheaded by London litigation partners Clare Canning, Simon Willis and Matthew Lawson, will mark a first for the London office, but matches the firm's already active practice in the US. The team combines more than 100 lawyers from the litigation and insolvency groups across the firm advising clients from the US, European and Asian offices.

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  • July 17, 2008 |

    Sao Paulo sizzles as US firms hit Brazil market

    After jetting down to Sao Paulo every few weeks for years, Jonathan Bisgaier has as many close friends in Brazil's largest city as he does in his native New York. And, starting this month, he'll be seeing them even more often. The Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner heads up the firm's newly opened Sao Paulo office, joining a recent rush of Am Law 200 firms opening up in Latin America's hottest economy. "As robust as everything has been for some time, it's been even more so since 2004," says Bisgaier, who brings with him half a dozen Portuguese-speaking associates from New York. "The view is that Brazil has finally broken out of its boom-and-bust cycle."

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  • July 16, 2008 |

    Rising in the east

    UK-qualified lawyers are in huge demand in China, with law firms looking for people with partnership potential. Philip Hoult looks at the state of play in the Asia-Pacific legal markets

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