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  • September 4, 2008 | International Edition

    Field Fisher scores second partner with Reed Smith hire

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has bagged its second partner in a week after taking on Lesley Webber from Reed Smith. Webber joins the firm's City real estate practice from the local office of Reed Smith, where she was a partner and head of the UK property litigation and planning group.

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  • September 4, 2008 |

    Field Fisher scores second partner with Reed Smith hire

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has bagged its second partner in a week after taking on Lesley Webber from Reed Smith. Webber joins the firm's City real estate practice from the local office of Reed Smith, where she was a partner and head of the UK property litigation and planning group.

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  • September 4, 2008 |

    Reed Smith boosts Paris arm with De Pardieu real estate partner hire

    Reed Smith is to boost its Paris offering with the hire of a real estate partner from local outfit De Pardieu Brocas Maffei. Stephane Illouz will join the firm as a partner in late September with two associates. Illouz's practice focuses on transactional real estate work but he also has experience in providing corporate, restructuring and debt advice to clients in the real estate sector.

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  • September 3, 2008 |

    The single solution

    On a crisp sunny day in late March, fee earners from 39 law firms gathered at the corporate headquarters of pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer, a nondescript office building a couple of blocks east of Grand Central Station in New York. The collective mood was cheerful. After all, each of the firms still had a piece of Pfizer's US litigation work. Two years earlier, the company had dumped 80% of its hundreds of outside counsel in a convergence project called P3 - the Pfizer Partnering Programme. Now, representatives from the survivors had been convened to receive an update.There was nothing surprising in what the first speaker, Sandra Phillips, head of the company's product litigation group, had to say. But the second speaker had some unexpected news to deliver. Margaret Madden (pictured right), head of Pfizer's employment law group, explained how her staff had slashed its roster of 50 outside law firms in the first phase of P3 to 10. A quick look around the room, however, revealed that just one of those employment firms was present. What happened to the other nine?

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  • September 3, 2008 |

    Reed Smith recruits shipping team in Paris

    Reed Smith has strengthened its Paris shipping practice with the hire of a team of lawyers. Luc Grellet joined the firm on Monday (1 September) as a partner from local outfit Bouloy Grellet & Godin, where he was a partner. He brings with him two associates.Grellet's practice focuses on international arbitration and product liability matters within the shipping industry.The hire is follows a number of moves within the US-based firm's shipping group since its merger with Richards Butler last year, with a raft of partners relocating to firm's Middle East and Asian offices.

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  • August 21, 2008 |

    Duane Morris cuts marketing and BD staff

    US law firm Duane Morris has cut around 18% of its marketing and business development staff, making staff reductions that echo moves at other firms in recent months.The 650-lawyer firm now has a marketing and business development team of 30-35 people, after laying off seven managers and staff and hiring three more senior executives in the past few months, said Ed Schechter, the firm's chief marketing officer.

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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 7, 2008 |

    Reed Smith launches NY derivatives group

    Reed Smith has moved to bolster its financial industry group, with the launch of a derivatives and structured products group. The group, formed in the firm's New York office, will comprise lawyers from its restructuring, transactional, litigation and insurance recovery practices across offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US

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  • August 1, 2008 |

    Reed Smith set for Silicon Valley office launch

    Reed Smith is set to open an office in Silicon Valley with the hire of corporate partner Rich Scudellari from Morrison & Foerster's Palo Alto office. Scudellari will initially be the only full-time partner based in the new office when it launches in early autumn. The office will become Reed Smith's fourth California base, in addition to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland.

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  • July 30, 2008 |

    Germany: A missed opportunity

    Although Germany's new private equity investment laws are welcome, a fragmented legal framework means the country's lawmakers have missed the opportunity to establish a coherent venture capital market

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