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  • January 18, 2011 |

    SNR Denton advises on £300m Thames Water outsource deal

    SNR Denton has advised London's main water distributor Thames Water on a £300m deal that will see it outsource all of its metering services. The 10-year contract will see Vennsys - a consortium led by Veolia Water UK - handle all of the meter readings and meter installation for Thames Water.

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  • January 13, 2011 |

    How CEOs assess the performance of their lawyers; or why it's good to say thanks for the coffee

    Let's ignore the irony that this post about assessment of lawyers' performance is written by a lawyer shall we? Yes? Good. Last week I attended the Pinsent Masons Atlas Retreat. Chatham House rules prevents me from sourcing the origin of this post, who was an ex-lawyer, ex-chair of board, ex-company director, ex-superhero etc. Let's call him in a pedantic lawyer-defined term kind of way, 'the Speaker'. The Speaker was here, so we thought, to talk about how CEOs assess the performance of their lawyers.

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  • January 12, 2011 |

    Drax Power promotes new GC as it looks to expand external roster

    Drax Power has promoted senior in-house counsel Kavita Singh to general counsel, with a remit to increase its roster of external law firms as the company expands internationally and to oversee the planned development of three biomass power stations with Siemens. Singh takes over at the helm of the nine-lawyer in-house team from Philip Hudson, who will now serve as director of corporate affairs following a management reshuffle.

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  • January 12, 2011 |

    Seven law firms cited among UK's top 100 gay-friendly employers

    Seven law firms have been included in this year's Workplace Equality Index compiled by gay rights charity Stonewall, with Simmons & Simmons topping the rankings for the second year in a row. The index, which ranks the top 100 gay-friendly employers in the UK, included Simmons & Simmons in 19th place, down from its 15th-place ranking last year. Other firms to be featured in the rankings include Baker & McKenzie, Eversheds, Herbert Smith, Hogan Lovells, Irwin Mitchell and Pinsent Masons.

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  • December 9, 2010 |

    Bank rescue work sends Govt legal spend surging 400% to £45m

    Government legal spend under the legal services framework has quadrupled over the last three years, according to figures obtained by Legal Week through a freedom of information request. Figures released by Office of Government Commerce agency Buying Solutions show legal spend stood at £44.8m for the 2009-10 financial year, compared with £11.3m in pre-recession 2007-08. The figures show expenditure in the last financial year was only marginally lower than the previous two years combined, which stood at £47.9m including 2008-09 legal fees of £36.6m.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    Camerons sees fee income rise 5% at half-year stage of financial year

    CMS Cameron McKenna has posted improved revenues at the half-year stage, with the firm reporting a 5% increase on the same period last year. The UK top 15 law firm has recorded fee income of £100m for the 2010-11 financial year so far, after last year posting a 13% fall in revenues at the H1 stage.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    Law Firm Innovation Award

    The judges were impressed both by the simplicity of thinking behind Pinsent Mason's HR Network TV and the hard evidence of its usefulness to its intended audience - busy human resources (HR) executives. The project was conceived and developed by Pinsents' national employment group, which had received feedback from HR clients that they wanted legal briefings and updates delivered in a more immediate and less time-consuming way than via seminars and written briefings. This was especially important because budget cuts meant it was more difficult for these executives to attend seminars precisely at a time when they needed to be at the top of their games thanks to the impact of the credit crunch.

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  • December 3, 2010 | International Edition

    BLP, A&O and BAE scoop prizes at British Legal Awards

    Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Allen & Overy (A&O), and BAE Systems were among the prize winners at last night's (2 December) British Legal Awards 2010, which took place in a snowy London at Old Billingsgate Market.

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  • December 3, 2010 |

    BLP, A&O and BAE scoop prizes at British Legal Awards

    Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Allen & Overy (A&O), and BAE Systems were among the prize winners at last night's (2 December) British Legal Awards 2010, which took place in a snowy London at Old Billingsgate Market.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    SNR Denton and Eversheds get client vote on cost and billing practices

    SNR Denton has emerged as the highest ranked top 20 UK law firm by clients for cost and billing practices, according to Legal Week research. The merged firm was closely followed by Eversheds, Simmons & Simmons and CMS Cameron McKenna, according to Legal Week Intelligence's seventh annual Client Satisfaction Report, which is based on responses from 1,265 senior in-house lawyers.

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