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  • November 10, 2010 |

    Pinsents sees half-year revenues inch up on last year's performance

    Pinsent Masons has posted a marginal increase in revenues for the first half of the 2010-11 financial year. The UK top 15 firm's total fee income for the first six months of the year stood at £98.3m, 0.5% up from the figure of £97.8m taken in during H1 last year. Pinsents managing partner David Ryan said: "I am pleased with the progress that we have made so far.

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  • November 2, 2010 |

    Trowers plans private sector push with hire of Pinsents construction partner

    Trowers & Hamlins is targeting the private construction sector with the hire of Pinsent Masons' London transactional construction team head Michael Mullarkey. Mullarkey, who advises contractors in the health, education, water, transport, social housing and private development sectors, joined Trowers' projects and construction group earlier this week (1 November).

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  • October 28, 2010 |

    Salans managing partner wins third term after contested vote

    Salans has re-elected Dariusz Oleszczuk as global managing partner for his third consecutive term in the role. Oleszczuk, who was voted in yesterday (27 October) after a contested election, has held the role since 2004 and has been a partner at Salans for almost 20 years.

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  • October 26, 2010 |

    Norton Rose seals hire of Jones Day finance partner for Perth office

    Norton Rose has expanded its Australian arm with the hire of Jones Day Singapore banking and finance partner Herman Yip. Yip has rejoined the firm in Perth, after leaving Norton Rose's Singapore arm in 2006 to move to Jones Day. He was previously with Norton Rose between 1999 and 2006.

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  • October 26, 2010 |

    Fit for practice - the new hurdles for overseas lawyers taking the QLTS

    The Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) has paved the way for numerous overseas solicitors to practise law in England and Wales since it was created in 1990, but after setting the standard for 20 years, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) recently decided that the time had come to reform the system. With the new Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) now in play as of 1 September 2010, new applicants face a number of hurdles.

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  • October 25, 2010 |

    Brabners scores high-profile role on Rooney contract negotiations

    Northwest firm Brabners Chaffe Street has taken a high-profile role advising on Wayne Rooney's contract negotiations with Manchester United Football Club, following last week's intense media speculation over the England striker's future. The firm worked on the contract overnight last Thursday (21 October), with Manchester United announcing the deal the following day. The contract sees Rooney sign up to another five years at the club, replacing his existing deal that was set to expire at the end of next season.

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  • October 20, 2010 |

    New ideas in law: Follow the leader

    Philip Wood QC ambles into one of the meeting rooms of Allen & Overy's (A&O's) Bishops Square offices and launches into a series of surreal asides, including but not limited to 1930s Yorkshire, his love of colouring in and how there are too many laws in the world. The face of - and brains behind - A&O's new Global Law Intelligence Unit, who holds visiting professor posts at universities including Oxford, Cambridge and London School of Economics, plays the eccentric academic role well. But spend a bit longer in his company and it is clear that he also possesses the commercial nous you'd expect from someone who has spent 40 years in corporate law, including a high-profile stint as A&O's head of banking in the 1990s.

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  • October 20, 2010 |

    New ideas in law: The geek shall inherit...

    Having reached the profession late, law blogging has emerged in recent years to secure real influence. Alex Aldridge assesses how the format has introduced a new range of voices to the legal community

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  • October 20, 2010 |

    Tweet disposition - the tech-savvy lawyers making social media work for them

    Do you tweet? Among journalists the answer is becoming a given, but among City lawyers the question may be considered a little less relevant. Not so, say a host of web-literate legal advisers and in-house counsel.

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  • October 13, 2010 |

    Top names ready to battle for honours at 2010 British Legal Awards

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) are among the firms shortlisted for a number of categories in the 2010 British Legal Awards. The group has been nominated for the much sought after Law Firm of the Year award alongside Clyde & Co, Sullivan & Cromwell and Travers Smith.

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