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  • April 29, 2010 |

    Simmons joins Standard Chartered UK roster after adviser review

    Simmons & Simmons has won a place on Standard Chartered's UK panel as the bank completes a review of its advisers. The UK top 15 law firm is the only new addition to the panel after the bank decided to reappoint all six of its current UK advisers.

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  • April 23, 2010 |

    Addleshaws litigation partners quit firm to launch new boutique

    Addleshaw Goddard is set to see the departure of two senior litigators as Simon Twigden and Pietro Marino leave the firm to set up their own litigation boutique. Litigation partner Marino and Twigden, the national firm's practice head, both handed in their notice last week. It is unclear if the duo, who will now serve a 12-month notice period, will take any other Addleshaws staff with them.

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  • April 21, 2010 |

    Addleshaws weighs up voting rights for salaried partner rank

    Addleshaw Goddard is considering handing more power to its salaried partners by giving them voting rights on some aspects of the firm's management. The national law firm is kicking off a governance review in the coming weeks in a bid to update its internal structures and is looking into extending the voting rights of its partners beyond the equity.

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  • April 21, 2010 |

    Addleshaws and Latham lead on £350m card company acquisition

    Addleshaw Goddard and Latham & Watkins have advised on the £350m buyout of greeting cards chain Card Factory by Charterhouse Capital Partners. Addleshaws advised Card Factory on the buyout of the Wakefield-based business, which boasts some 480 shops across the UK and employs around 4,500 staff.

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  • April 21, 2010 |

    Dentons seals deal to provide ATE insurance

    Denton Wilde Sapte has sealed a deal with a major insurer placing it among the few major law firms with authority to broker after-the-event (ATE) insurance for litigation clients. The top 20 UK firm signed a deal with FirstAssist Legal Protection giving the firm delegated authority to set up insurance for an unlimited number of cases across fields including property, professional negligence, construction and general commercial litigation.

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  • April 14, 2010 |

    3,000 students rank A&O, Eversheds and Bird & Bird as stand-out firms

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has edged past Clifford Chance (CC) to be rated as the most prestigious global law firm, according to a major study of student perceptions, with Bird & Bird and Eversheds also topping their respective categories. The flagship report from Legal Week's research arm asked students at leading universities and Graduate Diploma in Law course providers to identify the single firm they regarded as the 'most prestigious' in three primary categories: international law firms, City and national and regional.

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  • April 8, 2010 |

    Nabarro misses out as Yorkshire development agency completes panel review

    Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward has completed an adviser review which has seen Nabarro lose its place on the organisation's legal panel. The agency has split its adviser roster in two, with Eversheds, Hammonds, Pinsent Masons, Cobbetts, Walker Morris and Addleshaw Goddard appointed to the main legal panel. The six firms were reappointed following a competitive tender process, with Nabarro the only former panel firm not to be reappointed.

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  • April 1, 2010 |

    Hammonds partner duo hand in notice as resignation window opens

    Hammonds is to lose two senior partners, with Manchester head Jonathan Edwards and construction chief David Moss resigning from the firm. Both partners handed in their notice earlier this week (31 March), on one of only two days each year on which equity partners are able to resign from the firm.

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  • March 31, 2010 |

    Addleshaws litigation partner Burch steps into new chairman role

    Addleshaw Goddard has overhauled its management structure with litigation partner Monica Burch taking over from senior partner Paul Lee at the helm after a contested election. Burch will take on the newly-created role of chairman of the board on 1 May for a three-year term when Paul Lee steps down as senior partner. Lee will remain as a partner in the corporate department.

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  • March 24, 2010 |

    Training and education: The talent grab

    Despite a broad move towards widening participation, entry into the legal profession is a long way from being a level playing field. A demand for intelligent high-performers inherently pushes law firms towards recruiting from leading institutions, so despite their best efforts at broadening access it may be of limited surprise that half of the trainees recruited at City firms over the last two years went to one of the UK's top 10 universities.

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