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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Jones Day makes up London duo in 36-strong promotions round

    Jones Day has promoted two new partners in London out of a global total of 36 in the firm's annual partnership round. The new City-based partners are international litigation and arbitration specialist Nicholas Cotter and Barnaby Stueck in the US firm's trial practice.

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  • January 8, 2010 |

    A&O recruits Latham partner in Paris as quartet quit US firm

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has recruited a Latham & Watkins litigation partner in Paris in one of four partner departures from the US firm, reports The Am Law Daily. Jean-Christophe Tristant, an intellectual property (IP) licensing and litigation lawyer, is set to join A&O in Paris after the magic firm yesterday (7 January) announced the hire of a six-lawyer Clifford Chance team in the French capital.

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  • January 8, 2010 |

    SJ Berwin associate lands new role as director of mergers at OFT

    The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recruited SJ Berwin lawyer Sheldon Mills as its new director of mergers. Mills, who will take up his new role on 15 February, joined SJ Berwin's EU and competition practice in January 2007 from the London office of US firm Jones Day.

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  • January 6, 2010 |

    Stay on your toes

    Last year many of the top law firms asked volunteers to defer their training contract start dates - and in some cases gave trainees-to-be no choice in the matter. Some firms, including Norton Rose and Clifford Chance, accompanied deferrals with the payment of generous sums of up to £11,000 to students holding off for a year. Others, such as Shoosmiths, declined to pay anything.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: All tied up

    The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown and Latham lead on $8.5m Ernst & Young settlement

    Mayer Brown and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have taken roles advising Ernst & Young (E&Y) in settlement talks with regulators over the accounting firm's failure to report fraudulent activity at one of its clients, reports The Am Law Daily. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had accused E&Y of issuing unqualified audit opinions that said that Chicago-based company Bally Total Fitness's 2001 and 2003 financial statements conformed with US accounting rules.

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  • December 15, 2009 |

    Weil Gotshal billings on Lehman bankruptcy rise to $127m

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' billings on the Lehman Brothers collapse have reached $127.1m (£78m), according to a new bankruptcy report filed yesterday (14 December). The monthly operating report filed by Weil bankruptcy partner Shai Waisman shows that Lehman has paid legal counsel and financial advisers nearly $533.5m (£328m) since entering Chapter 11 in September 2008.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Jones Day

    Hard-nosed product of the 2003 union between a US national giant and individualistic City outfit Gouldens. Has improved on a shaky start.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Nabarro

    With Nicole Paradise at the helm, this solid mid-tier outfit has one of the few female managing partners in the UK top 50...

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Macfarlanes

    This hard-working but merit-driven firm City thoroughbred has a top-notch rep for private equity and private client - though it's actually pretty handy for most stuff.

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