• June 7, 2000 |

    Freedom or Fraternity

    As hard as it is for them to stomach, allowing the firm to be taken over may be what Ashurst Morris Crisp partners have to accept if they are to realise their ambition of sitting at the global top table, writes Philip Hoult

    1 minute read

  • June 7, 2000 |

    Seconding that motion

    Are secondments really such a good idea? Mary Mullally talks to lawyers in private practice and in-house to assess the pros and cons of placing staff in-house

    1 minute read

  • April 5, 2000 |

    Orricks to work closer with VLG

    Legal Week Reports

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  • March 22, 2000 |

    Rewarding client commitment

    Eversheds recently became the first foreign firm to win an award from chemicals giant DuPont. Mary Mullally asks if this US phenomenon of rewarding suppliers for performance is about to take place in this country

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  • March 15, 2000 |

    Bird & Bird recruits three

    France

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  • March 15, 2000 |

    Digging for gold

    Legal Week Reports

    1 minute read

  • March 15, 2000 |

    Target: Europe

    Telecommunications

    1 minute read

  • March 1, 2000 |

    The one that got away

    Merger talks between Bird & Bird and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe recently failed. The official reason was that both firms' global strategies failed to gel but, reports Mary Mullally, the real reason boils down to economics

    1 minute read

  • March 1, 2000 |

    Bird & Bird set to expand HK office

    Hong Kong

    1 minute read

  • February 23, 2000 |

    Bird & Bird puts skids on US mergers

    Legal Week reports

    1 minute read