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  • July 23, 2009 |

    Davenport Lyons boosts corporate with Addleshaws partner hire

    Davenport Lyons has expanded its corporate team with the hire of John Hiscock from Addleshaw Goddard. Hiscock, who joined the West End law firm as a partner at the beginning of this month, will work with corporate head Michael Hatchwell. His practice covers private equity and venture capital, investment funds, structured finance, M&A and structured real estate work, with his past clients including Matrix Group and Royal Bank of Scotland.

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  • July 22, 2009 |

    Perks of the job

    Legal Week takes a look at some of the bait law firms are using during vacation schemes to hook potential recruits - including treasure hunts, medieval banquets and trips to New York. Linklaters underlines its credentials as an employer of sophisticated people with a taste for the finer things in life by whisking off its vac schemers to the theatre.

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  • July 21, 2009 |

    Perks of the job

    Legal Week takes a look at some of the bait law firms are using to hook potential recruits...

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  • July 16, 2009 |

    Field Fisher hires Halliwells partner in litigation boost

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has made its eighth lateral partner hire so far this year, with the City law firm set to boost its disputes practice. Commercial litigation partner Michael Mulligan will join the dispute resolution practice on 1 September from Halliwells, bringing with him a practice focused on contentious insolvency, asset recovery and fraud work.

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  • July 10, 2009 |

    Addleshaws rolls out flexi-work scheme

    Addleshaw Goddard has rolled out a flexible working scheme after 95% of fee earners voted in favour of the plans.The scheme, which started on 1 July, will run for a 12 month period and will see the firm putting some fee earners onto a four day week in return for 85% of pay.

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  • July 9, 2009 |

    Addleshaws wins key Barclays role as bank confirms new panel line-up

    Barclays has completed its panel review, with Addleshaw Goddard winning a coveted spot on the bank's main panel.

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  • July 9, 2009 |

    Addleshaws partners asked to repay profits to cover tax bill

    Addleshaw Goddard earlier this year asked partners to return some profits handed out ahead of schedule in order to pay a tax bill, it has emerged. The top 20 law firm requested that equity partners pay back some profits that had been distributed in late 2008.

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  • July 9, 2009 |

    Diageo hands CMS pan-Euro mandate and reviews advisers

    Diageo has handed CMS Cameron McKenna a flagship appointment, with the UK firm and its eight-firm CMS alliance appointed as preferred adviser for commercial work across continental Europe. The news comes as the drinks giant - which owns brands including Guinness and Smirnoff - launches an informal review looking at how it can cut legal spend globally without creating a formal legal panel.

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  • July 2, 2009 |

    Addleshaws wins Barclays role as bank confirms new panel line-up

    Barclays has completed its panel review, with Addleshaw Goddard winning a coveted spot on the bank's main panel. The national firm joins Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance , DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells and Simmons & Simmons on the bank's general advisory roster, with Barclays also appointing a string of firms to 10 specialist panels.

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  • July 2, 2009 |

    Addleshaws targets four key sectors for growth in five-year strategy plan

    Addleshaw Goddard is to align its business around four key sector groups as part of its new five-year strategy. The national firm has highlighted financial services, public sector, retail and consumer and real estate for growth, with the firm hoping the focus will help strengthen ties with existing clients as well as attracting new clients. The sectors will run alongside Addleshaws' existing four main practice divisions – real estate, contentious and commercial, and finance and projects and corporate.

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