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  • April 17, 2008 | International Edition

    TMT rivals Bird & Bird and Field Fisher maintain substantial promotions round

    Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week. Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners - doubling its 2007 count - with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    TMT rivals Bird & Bird and Field Fisher maintain substantial promotions round

    Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week. Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners - doubling its 2007 count - with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.

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  • April 15, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 15/04/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; promotions fun on the Legal Week Wiki; and more

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  • April 14, 2008 |

    Clydes promotes nine to break 150-partner mark

    Clyde & Co has made up nine new partners in this year's round of promotions, more than doubling last year's tally of four. Three of the new partners are promoted in the City, the firm announced today (13 April) - energy lawyer Mike Swangard plus insurance specialists Lee Bacon and Geraldine Quirk, who will divide her time between London and the firm's Guildford office. Mark Williamson, who is based full-time in the Guildford branch, is promoted in corporate.

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  • April 14, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 14/04/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; a new Legal Villager blogs from Baghdad; and more

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  • April 3, 2008 |

    Reed Smith snares Clydes asset finance hire

    Reed Smith Richards Butler has moved to strengthen its City asset finance team with the hire of a partner from Clyde & Co. Siva Subramaniam joined the US firm from Clydes yesterday (2 April). He had been a partner at the top 20 UK law firm for the last two years.

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  • April 2, 2008 |

    Middle East and India: The new road to riches

    It is easy to become blase about the significance of law firms entering a new market in their droves, and for the pace of change in that market to become a platitudinous talking point among lawyers.But it was not that long ago that some lawyers in the Middle East outposts of City firms routinely took advantage of the Gulf weekend being on Thursdays and Fridays, by rolling the local weekend into the Western weekend for a bumper four-day rest, leaving three days to get their weekly work done. Now it is more common for Gulf lawyers to work both weekends, such is the volume of business being done in the region.

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  • March 25, 2008 |

    Serle Court silk in pioneering Qatar move

    Serle Court's Khawar Qureshi QC is to head the first barristers' set based outside the UK, as McNair Chambers launches in Qatar at the end of the month. McNair launches on 30 March, with Qureshi set to be joined in Doha by high-profile names including former House of Lords judge Lord Slynn of Hadley and fellow Serle Court tenants William Ballantyne and Michael Palmer.

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  • March 12, 2008 |

    Clydes loses lawyer to mobile operator 3

    Clyde & Co competition lawyer Mark Warrington has been swiped by mobile phone operator 3 to head up its in-house competition capability. Warrington, who worked on the UK's first-ever class action against JJB sports last year, will work alongside the mobile company's in-house regulatory division and report to general counsel Stephen Lerner. His appointment brings the operator's in-house legal team to a total of 15 lawyers.

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  • March 6, 2008 |

    Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank makes first general counsel hire

    Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has appointed Simon Copleston as its first-ever general counsel. Copleston joined the bank from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) on 8 January to become the first lawyer to hold the post. The appointment is Copleston's latest in-house position in the Middle East after leaving Olswang in January 2006 to join investment house Dubai International Capital. It is understood he will be responsible for building up the bank's legal function to around five lawyers by the end of the year.

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