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  • May 8, 2008 |

    Nabarro hires in pensions and environment

    Nabarro has announced the arrival of two new partners to bolster its environment and pensions practices. Clare Deanesly joins the City outfit from US firm Jones Day, where she headed up the London environment group. Her practice has a focus on waste management, contaminated land and renewable energy.

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  • May 8, 2008 |

    Kirkland, King & Spalding net $14bn wi-fi JV

    Kirkland & Ellis and King & Spalding have bagged lead roles advising on a $14.5bn (£7.3bn) joint venture between ailing telecoms giant Sprint Nextel and Clearwire Corporation to create a high-speed wireless network dubbed WiMax, writes The American Lawyer. Under the terms of the deal, Clearwire - which was founded by cell phone and wireless pioneer Craig McCaw in 2003 - will combine its wireless broadband network with that of Kansas-based Sprint Nextel. The long-term aim is to create a national network that can be accessed from laptops and mobile phones.

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  • May 7, 2008 |

    Skadden boosts US healthcare expertise

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has boosted its US healthcare practice with the hire of a senior partner from rival Jones Day. Greg Luce, who co-chaired the healthcare team at Jones Day, joins Skadden in Washington DC, where he will lead its healthcare enforcement and litigation group.

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  • May 2, 2008 |

    Skadden nabs senior Jones Day healthcare man

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has boosted its US healthcare practice with the hire of a senior partner from domestic rival Jones Day. Greg Luce, who co-chaired the healthcare team at Jones Day, joins Skadden in Washington DC, where he will lead the firm's healthcare enforcement and litigation group.

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  • April 30, 2008 |

    Commentary: A real American law firm lands in the Square Mile

    Unlike most US firms landing blinking in the City, one problem that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will not have is standing out. After all, these self-consciously combative trial lawyers extraordinaire manage to stand out in their home town, having grown at staggering speed from their 1986 launch to become a top 100 US practice in just two decades. But it is far more than startling growth that the Los Angeles-based upstart is known for: it remains one of the very few law firms of any significance to focus exclusively on litigation, a focus that the firm has turned to its advantage by freeing itself from conflicts.

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  • April 24, 2008 |

    Howrey boosts NY and Madrid with partner hires

    Howrey has added two intellectual property (IP) partners and a litigation partner in its New York and Madrid offices. All three partners joined at the beginning of this month. Two of the three hires are in New York, where Anthony Rotondi has joined the litigation practice from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, while Theresa Gillis has joined from Jones Day to launch an IP practice. Both were partners at their previous firms.

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  • April 23, 2008 |

    Corporate Counsel: Soft landings

    It is Wednesday afternoon and Paul McNulty is searching for his taxi outside Dulles International Airport. The former deputy attorney general and current Baker & McKenzie partner is just back from an overnighter in Houston, where he spoke to a group of 25 general counsel.His topic? How to handle federal investigations, of course. After all, McNulty did write the memo that governs federal prosecutions of corporations. While general counsel might not like the spectre raised by the McNulty Memorandum, if they have to comply, who better to consult than its author?

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  • April 23, 2008 |

    Suckers for punishment

    It's obviously the season for gruelling/unnecessary feats/stunts of daring/foolhardiness (delete as appropriate), with LW Towers this week swamped by missives from lawyers about their exercise-based exploits.Earlier this year The Diary revealed how a team of tough-nuts from Jones Day were running the Paris and London marathons in successive weekends - and cycling the 300 miles between them to boot. Well, they did it, and you can contribute to the £100,000 they hope to raise for Cancer Research UK via the Daily Diary blog on legalweek.com.

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  • April 22, 2008 |

    Jones Day joins NY elite on $7bn fundraising

    Jones Day has bagged a role alongside a clutch of leading New York firms on a $7bn (£3.5m) fundraising by US lender National City. Sullivan & Cromwell advised Cleveland-based National City alongside Jones Day, while Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advised Corsair Capital, the largest single investor. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton also landed a role advising Axon, another of the investors.

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  • April 22, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 22/04/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; Alex Novarese on A&O RIM bill; and more

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