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  • July 9, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 09/07/08...

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

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  • July 8, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown makes capital markets hire in Paris

    Mayer Brown has bolstered its French capital markets practice with the hire of Robert Flanigan to its Paris office. Flanigan, who joined the firm on 16 June, will head the capital markets practice and brings the total Paris partnership to 15.Prior to joining the Anglo-American firm, Flanigan headed up the capital markets practice at US rival Winston & Strawn in Paris for three years. He also previously worked at Shearman & Sterling.

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  • July 2, 2008 |

    Camerons hires partner for property boost

    CMS Cameron McKenna has bolstered its property practice with the hire of Mayer Brown partner Melville Rodrigues. Rodrigues, who joined Camerons on 1 July, was a partner at the US firm for eight years. Prior to working at Mayer Brown he worked at property boutique McGuinness Finch. He advises on the establishment of real estate funds and real estate transactions internationally and for the UK.

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  • July 2, 2008 |

    Maclays takes lead on £350m Grampian buy-out

    Maclay Murray & Spens has landed a role opposite Anglo-American Mayer Brown on the £350m acquisition of meat supplier Grampian Country Food Group by Vion. Scottish leader Maclays took the lead role for Grampian, with Aberdeen chief Alastair Wyper leading the team. Corporate consultant Mark Aspery assisted from the firm's London office.

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  • July 2, 2008 |

    Litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration: The case for change

    With the English Court's reputation for managing large-scale commercial disputes under scrutiny following the notoriously costly and lengthy BCCI and Equitable Life proceedings, the Commercial Court users' committee working party has considered all aspects of conducting heavy and complex litigation in the Commercial Court and has made recommendations with a view to rationalising commercial litigation procedures. The recommendations centre around the aim of requiring the parties and the Court to identify the pivotal issues between the parties as soon as possible, and undoubtedly make sense as a matter of theory. But can they have any real impact until the Commercial Court is provided with adequate judicial resources to enable it to pursue their substance, rather than merely their form?

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  • June 17, 2008 |

    Milberg agrees to pay $75m kickback settlement

    Class action law firm Milberg today (17 June) reached a $75m (£38.1m) settlement with federal prosecutors over the payment of kickbacks to individual plaintiffs in shareholder cases, writes the New York Law Journal. The firm - four of whose former name partners have pleaded guilty in the past year to criminal charges relating to the payments - will pay the sum in installments until 2012.

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  • June 13, 2008 |

    Salans hires for City competition launch

    Salans has launched a City competition practice following the hire of partner from McDermott Will & Emery. Ian Rose, whose practice focuses on cartels and abuse of dominance litigation, joins from the US firm's City arm as a partner.

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  • June 11, 2008 |

    The Am Law 100: The sky's the limit

    In 2015 - the year that New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez will surpass 762 home runs and break the Major League record - Latham & Watkins and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom will both gross more than $5bn (£2.56bn), Baker & McKenzie will have more than 6,600 lawyers and the lucky partners at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz will bring home about $7.7m (£3.95m) each - a handsome sum, but one that will itself be dwarfed by the $15.7m (£8.05m) Wachtell partners will average in 2025. Or maybe not.

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  • June 4, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown, Clydes bag £136m Argo deal

    Mayer Brown and Clyde & Co have won lead roles advising on the £136m acquisition of Heritage Underwriting Agency by insurer Argo. Mayer Brown advised Argo, with corporate partner Stephanie Bates leading a team of London partners including Gary Cooper and Lauri-Lynn Pursall (corporate), David Chadwick, Jane Childs and Ian McKenna (all insurance).

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  • June 3, 2008 |

    Weiss sentenced to 30 months for kickback scheme

    A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced Melvyn Weiss, the co-founding partner of Milberg, to 30 months in prison. US District Judge John Walter of the Central District of California said it was "difficult to reconcile" Weiss's numerous charitable contributions with his criminal conduct, which "strikes directly at the core and heart of the judicial system." Weiss is set to report to prison on 28 August. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, of Brafman & Associates, asked that Weiss serve his sentence at a men's minimum security facility in West Virginia.

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