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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Addleshaws lawyer joins Pinsents partnership

    Pinsent Masons has hired a new partner from national rival Addleshaw Goddard in a boost for its City real estate practice. Claire Hughes, also a qualified surveyor, joined the top 15 UK law firm earlier this month after seven years as an associate at Addleshaws. Pinsents has also hired Royal Bank of Scotland senior solicitor Gary MacDonald as a senior associate in its Edinburgh corporate team.

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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Dickinsons looks after £218m NHS project

    Newcastle's Dickinson Dees has advised on an NHS healthcare project in Manchester worth a total of £218m.

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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 24/10/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Travers Smith, Linklaters and DLA Piper among the movers and shakers

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  • October 19, 2007 |

    A determined approach

    A qualifying law degree has traditionally been the first step on the road to becoming a solicitor.

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Media, Sport and Entertainment: Bad sport

    In 1950, George Orwell noted: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Walker Morris bags top mandate with £650m Land Securities deal

    Walker Morris has landed its first major instruction for UK property giant Land Securities, advising on the creation of a new £650m shopping complex.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Willkie Farr referral gifts Addleshaws Reliance Steel's first UK acquisition

    A referral from New York's Willkie Farr & Gallagher has gifted Addleshaw Goddard a mandate to advise US metals company Reliance Steel & Aluminium on its first ever acquisition in the UK.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 10/10/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Pinsents, Freshfields and Clifford Chance among the movers and shakers

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  • October 4, 2007 |

    Cobbetts turns to Barlows to help fight against £10m property negligence claim

    Cobbetts has instructed Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to defend it from a £10m negligence claim brought by Cheshire Building Society.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Addleshaws eyes referrals to tap lucrative Chinese market

    Addleshaw Goddard is on the hunt for referral partners in China as the UK law firm broadens its international strategy to cover some of the world's largest emerging markets.

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