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  • August 31, 2012 |

    Pinsents secures France launch with hire of nine-partner team

    Pinsent Masons is opening a new office in Paris after recruiting a nine-partner team from Marccus Partners, the legal arm of accounting firm Mazars. The new nine-partner office in the French capital, which will open for business tomorrow (1 September), will mark Pinsents' second continental European base and comes just two months after the firm set up shop in Munich on 1 July.

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  • August 29, 2012 |

    Addleshaws confirms 24 fee earner cuts as attrition remains low

    Addleshaw Goddard has confirmed that 24 fee earners have been made redundant following a two-month consultation at the firm. The firm first announced its intention to trim the number of senior fee earners in June, at the same time as announcing that partner profits had risen by 37% to £450,000.

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  • August 24, 2012 |

    Pinsents cuts 47 back office roles after post-merger consultation

    Pinsent Masons has announced that 47 members of its support team are to be made redundant following its merger with Scottish firm McGrigors. Confirmation of the cuts comes after Pinsents announced in June that around 40 roles were at risk, after a post-merger review found that there were a number of duplicate roles within its support teams.

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  • August 22, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including DLA, Plexus and CC

    DLA Piper has added a partner to its German finance and projects practice with the hire of Linklaters managing associate Wolfram Distler. Distler, who will join DLA's Frankfurt base as of 1 September, has been at Linklaters since 2003, primarily in Frankfurt as well as two spells in the magic circle firm's London office.

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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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