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  • March 31, 2014 |

    Pinsents sets out management election timetable as 15 join partnership

    Pinsent Masons has confirmed it is to hold its first management elections since merging with McGrigors in 2012, with the firm also announcing its new partner promotion round.

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  • March 30, 2014 |

    Trio of firms toast place on Diageo external counsel line-up

    Slaughter and May, Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons have won places as "general preferred suppliers" on Diageo's consolidated UK legal panel, following a four-month review.

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  • March 27, 2014 |

    Taking London – the US firms swooping in on the City's top talent

    The Olympic stadium wasn't the only venue for record setting in London in 2012.

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  • March 26, 2014 |

    Lend Lease reviews panel as construction group seeks to drive down legal spend

    Lend Lease has revamped its roster of legal advisers after asking its go-to advisers to reduce their rates.

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  • March 13, 2014 |

    HSF sets 30% target for female partners by 2019

    Herbert Smith Freehills has become the latest firm to push gender diversity up the agenda, setting a 30% target for female partners, by 2019. The gender target is set in two stages: by May 2017 at least 25% of the partnership will be women and by May 2019 at least 30% of the partnership will be women.

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  • March 10, 2014 |

    Making sense of the next move in banking reform

    In-house counsel sitting in financial institutions across the City could not be blamed for thinking that trying to make sense of the banking reform agenda at the moment is like trying to solve the Rubik's Cube in the dark. With competing priorities at local, national and supranational levels, it could scarcely be harder for those at the vanguard of delivering transformational change to get to grips with a raft of new regulation. And yet, get to grips with it they must. In January the European Commission proposed a set of banking regulations that will be of global systemic importance. The proposals would mean that national regulators could force the EU's largest and most complex banks to separate certain 'risky' trading activities from their core deposit-taking functions in the event of a threat to financial stability.

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  • March 3, 2014 |

    Pinsent Masons to address gender imbalance with 30% female partner target

    Pinsent Masons has launched a suite of initiatives aimed at increasing its number of female partners to 30%, with an initial target of 25% set for May 2018. 'Project Sky', which is being led by employment partner Linda Jones, seeks to remove any barriers to the progression of women to partnership and senior leadership.

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  • February 27, 2014 |

    Links, CC and Norton Rose named on nine-strong Green Investment Bank panel

    Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Norton Rose Fulbright are among nine firms to have won spots on the UK Government-backed Green Investment Bank's (GIB) first formal panel. Legal Week understands that Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy (A&O), Pinsent Masons, Burges Salmon and KWM SJ Berwin were all also successful in their pitches for the roster.

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  • February 26, 2014 | International Edition

    Pure and simple – the most popular Legal Week Law briefings from Q4 2013

    The practice of law is often maligned – and sometimes fairly so – as overly complex and inaccessible, with its use of arcane language, dense documents and labyrinthine legislation. But the issues that engage lawyers on a day-to-day basis are often the most simplistic, and, as the most popular briefings on Legal Week Law demonstrate, subjects as straightforward as clear communication, signatures and getting names right remain just as much of interest as ever. The doctrine of misnomer was thrown into the spotlight last year by the case of Liberty Mercian v Cuddy Civil Engineering, which was covered by Macfarlanes in its briefing 'Mistaken identity – the importance of getting names right in contracts', which proved to be one of the top 10 most popular downloads during the last three months of 2013.

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  • February 26, 2014 |

    Pure and simple – the most popular Legal Week Law briefings from Q4 2013

    The practice of law is often maligned – and sometimes fairly so – as overly complex and inaccessible, with its use of arcane language, dense documents and labyrinthine legislation. But the issues that engage lawyers on a day-to-day basis are often the most simplistic, and, as the most popular briefings on Legal Week Law demonstrate, subjects as straightforward as clear communication, signatures and getting names right remain just as much of interest as ever. The doctrine of misnomer was thrown into the spotlight last year by the case of Liberty Mercian v Cuddy Civil Engineering, which was covered by Macfarlanes in its briefing 'Mistaken identity – the importance of getting names right in contracts', which proved to be one of the top 10 most popular downloads during the last three months of 2013.

    1 minute read