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  • December 12, 2007 |

    New Freshfields London head Jones to grapple with career management

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer UK corporate head Tim Jones has vowed to put alternative career paths at the top of his agenda in his new role as head of the firm's London management group.

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  • December 6, 2007 |

    Banking Team of the Year

    Winner: Allen & Overy

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    Dealmaker: Andrew Sheach

    Self-confessed deal junkie Andrew Sheach leads CMS Cameron McKenna's corporate practice

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  • December 3, 2007 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 3/12/07...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; a new Career Clinic dilemma; and more

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  • November 28, 2007 |

    Sullivan, Skadden top US firms in Europe tables

    Sullivan & Cromwell and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have emerged as the top US law firms in European M&A over the last three years, according to research produced for Legal Week that show the pair have worked on the highest value of deals over the period.

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  • November 22, 2007 |

    US summer's class of 2007 - partner time, Picasso and cash

    Smaller US firms are continuing to outclass Big Law in the ferocious battle to attract summer associates

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Corporates cut back panel numbers as legal consolidation gathers pace

    The UK's top companies are turning to a shrinking band of firms as the trend towards legal services consolidation accelerates, according to Legal Week research. Legal Week Intelligence's (LWI's) Client Satisfaction Survey underlines the dominance of the panel model among UK buyers of legal services with almost 90% of FTSE 100 companies surveyed now using formal panels.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    DLA Piper hits top spot in NLJ league of largest firms in US

    DLA Piper has overtaken Baker & McKenzie as the largest law firm in the US, according to research by Legal Week's US sister title, The National Law Journal (NLJ), which shows the top 250 US law firms have grown headcount by 5.6% in the past year.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    US summer's class of 2007 - partner time, Picasso and cash

    Small is beautiful, at least in the eyes of 2007's summer associates in the US. While respondents to The American Lawyer's Summer Associates Survey liked big firms, they liked life at small to mid-sized firms even better. Students craved juicy assignments, friendly offices and lots of attention; the firms that best satisfied these needs were medium-sized shops with relatively small summer programmes.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    McGrigors casts off credit fears to launch capital markets team

    McGrigors has put aside fears about the global debt and equity markets to launch a 17-lawyer national capital markets practice.

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