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  • May 18, 2012 |

    Al Tamimi and CC among winners at first Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards

    Middle East leader Al Tamimi & Company was the big winner at the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards last week, securing three prizes at the inaugural event in Dubai, which also saw firms including Clifford Chance (CC) honoured alongside in-house teams at companies such as Al Tayer Group...

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  • May 16, 2012 |

    Pinsents makes up 13 in first promos round since McGrigors merger

    Pinsent Masons has made up 13 lawyers to partnership in its 2012 promotions round, the first since it joined forces with Scots firm McGrigors on 1 May this year. The firm's construction advisory and disputes practice has received four new partners, with London trio Shy Jackson, Sam Boyling and Kevin Joyce made up alongside Leeds lawyer John Williams.

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  • May 15, 2012 |

    Dickie Dees posts 2% revenue rise for 2011-12 financial year

    Dickinson Dees has unveiled solid financial results for 2011-12, with turnover rising by 2.4% to reach £46.1m. The year also saw profit grow by 10% to £12.1m, with income for the first four months of 2012 up 12% year-on-year.

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  • May 10, 2012 |

    Squire Sanders recruits partner duo to restock pensions team

    Squire Sanders is bolstering its UK pensions practice with the hire of a partner duo from Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper, with the recruitment coming as it emerged that the law firm saw two employment partners leave its Manchester office last month.

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  • May 10, 2012 |

    Pinsents senior partner pledges McGrigors deal will lay foundation for global expansion

    "Belfast is in focus as a destination that offers cost-saving opportunities from a legal process side, and former McGrigors managing partner Richard Masters is to look at operational efficiency and innovation, including issues like legal process outsourcing..."

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  • May 3, 2012 |

    Pinsents revamps sector focus as McGrigors merger goes live

    Pinsent Masons has overhauled its practice and industry sector group focus to tie in with its merger with Scots firm McGrigors, which went live earlier this week (1 May).

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  • May 3, 2012 |

    New entrants make mark in Manchester as local projects boost region's economy

    Against an ever more gloomy economic outlook in the UK, for some leading law firms, Manchester is offering the opportunity to defy the downturn, with a host of firms planning to expand in the city.

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  • May 3, 2012 |

    Family matters - are law firms delivering on their flexible working promises?

    HR departments are sympathetic to flexible working. But their frustration is that they will write up a policy and invite line managers to a training course on it and then, because it wasn't mandatory, the managers often won't even bother attending...

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  • April 26, 2012 |

    Fortune's firms - as King & Wood goes global, can its Chinese rivals follow?

    The internationalisation of China's legal market has seen the country's law firms prosper both locally and abroad. Can they continue to dominate their market as other global firms move in? Alice Gartland reports

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  • April 13, 2012 |

    Salans to pull plug on Beijing and refocus China efforts on Shanghai

    Salans is set to close its five-person Beijing office, leaving the firm with a single base in mainland China in Shanghai. Partners voted to close the office late last month, nearly four years after the office opened in July 2008. Managing counsel Aiping Bao, the only full-time member of staff in Salans' Beijing base, is expected to relocate to Shanghai, taking total headcount in the office to 38. Salans is still in discussions with the four remaining support staff working in Beijing.

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