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  • July 3, 2013 |

    DAC Beachcroft rolls out freelance employment and HR service

    DAC Beachcroft has become the latest firm to offer freelance staff on a temporary basis to clients with a new initiative focused on employment and HR work. The scheme, called The People Pool, currently comprises more than 25 employment lawyers and HR consultants - including non-lawyers - who will work on a flexible basis for clients during busy periods.

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  • June 26, 2013 |

    Freshfields leads on liquidation of London 2012 organising committee

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised on the liquidation of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). The role marks what is likely to be one of the final London 2012 matters for the magic circle firm, having been the official provider of legal services to the games since 2003, when it played a part establishing the joint venture behind the organising committee.

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  • June 25, 2013 |

    Pinsents signs up top-ranked banking partner in Birmingham

    Pinsent Masons has strengthened its financial services team with the hire of top-rated SGH Martineau partner David Doogan as head of the firm's Birmingham banking team. Doogan, who is top ranked by Chambers and Partners for banking and finance work in Birmingham, headed up the banking team at SGH Martineau, which was formed by the merger of Birmingham firm and London's Sprecher Grier Halberstam in 2011.

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  • June 20, 2013 |

    Diageo advisers on alert as new general counsel takes reins

    Diageo has appointed Siobhan Moriarty as its new general counsel, replacing current global legal chief Tim Proctor, who is retiring after 13 years in the role. Moriarty (pictured), who was previously European GC at the drinks giant, will formally step into the top legal role on 1 July, following a transition period that began in January. One of the largest corporates in the FTSE 100, Diageo counts Smirnoff, Jose Cuervo and Guinness among its brands.

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  • June 20, 2013 |

    TLT recruits top-rated DLA Piper IP partner for Manchester launch

    TLT has taken on a second DLA Piper partner as the expansive Bristol-based firm continues to recruit for its upcoming Manchester launch. The firm has sealed the hire of Manchester intellectual property (IP) partner Graeme Orchison, who has been a partner at DLA for more than 17 years and led the firm's northwest technology, media and communications group. He is top ranked by Chambers and Partners for Manchester IP work.

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  • June 19, 2013 |

    BLP offers 'pay-as-you-go' lawyers to expand Lawyers on Demand service

    Berwin Leighton Paisner has beefed up its pioneering Lawyers on Demand business by adding a "pay-as-you-go" service, which will give clients access to legal help remotely to manage surges in workload.

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  • June 16, 2013 |

    Pinsents posts £309m turnover as McGrigors merger drives 40% growth

    Pinsent Masons has announced turnover of £309m for 2012-13, representing combined growth of 5% in its first year of trading since its merger with McGrigors last May. The two firms last year posted a combined figure of £294m, of which legacy Pinsents contributed £221m, meaning total revenues at the firm have grown 40% since the Scots merger.

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  • June 13, 2013 |

    The AXA man – AXA UK's legal head on getting tough on law firm fees

    Edward 'Ed' Davis is slimmer than his Google images – the result, no doubt, of a recently acquired obsession with cycling. "I'm absolutely passionate about it," he admits, his eyes glazing with thoughts of country lanes or aerodynamic handle bars or whatever it is about the sport that has him hooked. The self-confessed MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man In Lycra) is fortunately wearing a suit and tie and leads the way into a chilly, white-walled meeting room, sparsely decorated with clip-framed AXA promotional posters. He apologises for the temperature and smell of fresh paint as if he is personally responsible – the first indicator that this is a company man through and through. Davis has spent the majority of his career at AXA Group, the French global insurance and asset management giant boasting 163,000 employees in 57 countries. In the UK, the core businesses of AXA Wealth, AXA PPP Healthcare, AXA Commercial and AXA Personal Insurance employ some 13,000 people nationally.

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  • June 6, 2013 |

    Post-recession recovery falters as growth dwindles across UK top 100

    The UK's top 100 law firms saw revenue growth in 2012-13 fall to less than half of that seen last year, with fee income across the group climbing by just 2.6%, as confirmation of the first formal financial results begins to trickle out from the country's top firms. Deloitte's latest quarterly law firm survey found the UK top 100 concluded 2012-13 with a year-on-year Q4 turnover increase of 2.4% – the slowest quarterly growth since October 2010. The average fee income increase of 2.6% across the group for the full financial year – which compares with growth of 6.6% last year – masks a host of disparities between firms. Notably, those in the top 10 saw revenues climb by only 1.5%, compared with 4% in the 11-25 category and 2% in the 26-50 group.

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  • June 5, 2013 |

    TLT boosts revenues by 10% as firm recruits for Manchester launch

    TLT has posted a double-digit hike in turnover for 2012-13, as the firm continues its recent UK expansion with the launch of a new office in Manchester. The Bristol-based firm, which saw turnover rise 10% from £44.5m to £49m during the last financial year, has made two hires for its new Manchester base - which it hopes to be operational this summer - with more in the pipeline.

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