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  • August 17, 2012 |

    Herbert Smith & Pinsents advise on £1bn wealth management merger

    Herbert Smith and Pinsent Masons have advised on a merger that sees two planning and wealth management firms combine to create an organisation with assets in excess of £1bn. Pinsents won the role for London-based Calkin Pattinson & Company, which has joined forces with Herbert Smith client James Hambro & Partners.

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  • August 16, 2012 |

    Stephenson Harwood in pole position for new Welsh racetrack project

    Stephenson Harwood has won a key mandate advising on a new public private partnership behind a new £250m Welsh motor racing circuit. The racetrack, which will be located in Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent, South East Wales, is the largest capital investment programme in automotive infrastructure in the UK over the last 50 years.

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  • August 8, 2012 |

    Howard Kennedy and Finers Stephens Innocent announce £43m merger

    Howard Kennedy and Finers Stephens Innocent have agreed to merge in a deal that is set to create a UK law firm with revenues of around £43m. The combination, which will go live on 1 November, will create a firm with 88 partners and 125 fee-earners under the brand Howard Kennedy FSI.

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  • August 7, 2012 |

    Freshfields, Bird & Bird and SJ Berwin confirm trainee retention rates

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Bird & Bird, SJ Berwin and Field Fisher Waterhouse have all confirmed trainee retention rates for their September 2012 qualifiers, with all bar SJ Berwin keeping on more than 80% of their intake.

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  • August 6, 2012 |

    Field Fisher cuts public sector from revamped sector focus

    Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has overhauled its sector groups, with the firm no longer listing public sector work among its core areas of focus. The firm has cut back its sectors from eleven to five, with public sector sitting alongside sport and transport as one of three core sectors removed from the list. Meanwhile media and entertainment have been merged with technology and communications to form a TMT group and real estate now sits within a combined hotel, retail and leisure sector.

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  • August 3, 2012 |

    Above and beyond - the scope of a solicitor's duty to their client

    The onset of the financial crisis led to speculation that there would be a flood of large claims against solicitors. For the most part, that prediction has not materialised. Where claims have been advanced, some have been the subject of robust judicial scrutiny. For example, in recent cases involving questions about the scope of a solicitor's duty of care, the courts have handed down judgments that were favourable to the profession.

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  • August 2, 2012 |

    Pro bono panellists tackle Olympic disputes as legal contests kick off

    Firms and chambers including Charles Russell, Farrer & Co and 4 New Square have taken roles on a trio of Olympic disputes after last year winning spots on a pro bono panel to provide legal advice during the Games. The London 2012 Pro Bono Service, which was set up to provide free legal advice to Olympic participants, comprises a line-up of nine law firms, chambers and advocates, with the first three cases handled by the panel covering selection and doping disputes.

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  • August 2, 2012 |

    You're fired - how angry clients get to the point of dumping their advisers

    GCs usually eschew the drama of dumping advisers but relationships can easily wither and die. Caroline Hill examines how the client/law firm bond can break

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  • July 26, 2012 |

    UK-wide law firms record 9.4% turnover growth to outpace City-centric rivals

    Nationally represented law firms have outpaced their City counterparts after a period of consolidation to post average turnover growth of 9.4%.

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  • July 26, 2012 |

    A good time to grow... if you have the nerve – senior lawyers spy opportunity in hard times

    Leaders across the top 50 reflect on a turbulent and eventful 2011-12 as firms get used to the New Normal

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