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  • November 28, 2007 |

    Online special: City firms improving pro bono efforts but controversy rages over PR tactics

    City firms are becoming stronger converts to the pro bono cause, but conservative Brits still cannot quite get used to the US example of firm-wide ventures and hourly targets. Caroline Grimshaw reports on the latest Big Question survey

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    McGrigors London NQs receive salary boost

    Scots firm McGrigors has boosted its newly-qualified (NQ) pay, with its starting lawyers in London now receiving £62,000 a year, up 19% from the equivalent period last year.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Addleshaws client survey used in partner appraisals

    Addleshaw Goddard partners are to be appraised based on client feedback generated by an independent market research company, following a successful pilot of the scheme at the national firm.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Global calling

    BT Global Services' worldwide expansion is helping the communications giant to make new contacts outside of the increasingly competitive UK recruitment scene, as general counsel Tim Cowen tells Michelle Madsen

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Norton Rose hits Dentons with Bi capture

    Norton Rose has boosted its Islamic finance team with the hire of rated capital markets partner Farmida Bi from City finance rival Denton Wilde Sapte. Bi resigned from the top 20 firm this week (6 November), although her departure date is subject to negotiation and she is likely to be required to serve a period of gardening leave.

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    London boutiques target expansion with Addleshaws and Withers hires

    Two London boutiques have moved to broaden their horizons with senior partner hires from larger City rivals. Bates Wells & Braithwaite and Forsters have hired well-known partners from Addleshaw Goddard and Withers respectively.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Eighteen of 19 top firms report double-digit H1 growth

    The UK's top law firms have posted a robust set of half year results, with 18 out of 19 firms to have announced their figures so far unveiling double-digit revenue growth. The results (see table below) show no less than seven firms posting turnover increases of 20% or more compared to the equivalent period last year.

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