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  • September 25, 2009 |

    Morgan Lewis names new London chief as firm targets City growth

    Morgan Lewis has appointed Charles Lubar as head of its London office, replacing Bob Goldspink, who is set to retire at the end of this month. Lubar, who was part of the team that founded the firm's London office and managed it until the mid-1990s, will take up the role on 1 October. He has been a partner at Morgan Lewis for almost 30 years and also heads up the firm's London tax practice.

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  • September 23, 2009 |

    Renewable energy: Critical mass

    "The nuclear industry was for many years not very glamorous in this country, to say the least," recalls Amec Nuclear legal director Kevin Smith. "Now, though, it has suddenly become fashionable," he continues, "with law firms suddenly claiming they have got a nuclear law department". The shift in attitude began in 2003, counter-intuitively with the establishment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which subsequently opened up the decommissioning of various ageing nuclear plants, including Sellafield, to private companies. Around this time the Government's commitment to reduce its carbon emission levels, agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, came into force.

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  • September 23, 2009 |

    Is Whitehall wilting in the climate change heat?

    Against the background of one of Europe's most liberalised energy markets and a renewable generation subsidy scheme designed to be driven by market forces, there are signs that the Government is struggling to make the model fit with its challenging low carbon targets. Is Whitehall losing faith in the power of free markets to deliver the goods when it comes to climate change?

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  • September 18, 2009 |

    Slaughters and Freshfields take roles on major Hong Kong IPOs

    Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among a number of international law firms to have picked up mandates on two major Hong Kong Stock Exchange listings which closed this week. China's largest pharmaceutical company, Sinopharm, raised HK$8.73bn (£688m), while Metallurgical Corp raised HK$18.2bn (£1.4bn) from the listings, which together dwarfed the initial public offering (IPO) activity to have taken place on the Hong Kong exchange so far this year.

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  • September 16, 2009 |

    1,000 clients sign up to join Legal Week LinkedIn group

    Legal Week has attracted more than 1,000 members to its LinkedIn group for in-house lawyers, making it one of the largest online networking groups for lawyers in the world. The group, which was set up in April this year, was established to enable lawyers with an interest in the in-house world to exchange information and forge working relationships on the popular business networking site.

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    Macfarlanes adds partner duo with A&O and Jones Day laterals

    Macfarlanes has made a double partner hire to strengthen its restructuring and litigation teams with Francis Bridgeman and Barry Donnelly joining from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Jones Day respectively. Jones Day partner Donnelly and former A&O consultant Bridgeman will both join Macfarlanes' partnership later this month (10 September), with the firm predicting an increase in litigation and restructuring mandates in the wake of the credit crunch.

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    US Briefing: Talkin' revolution

    Jeffrey Carr is sick of talking about alternative fee arrangements. The general counsel for Houston-based FMC Technologies has been using alternative fee structures - arrangements with outside counsel that are not based on billable hours - for "well over a decade". But Carr (pictured right) says his efforts over the years to promote these billing models among his counterparts at other companies fell largely on deaf ears.

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  • August 27, 2009 |

    America – another country, legally another world

    I guess it's the same whatever industry you work in, but it's amazing the extent to which...

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  • August 21, 2009 |

    SJ Berwin

    An energetic mid-market player that divides opinion among the market over its uncompromising approach.

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  • August 17, 2009 |

    Greenberg recruits White & Case partner duo as City growth continues

    Greenberg Traurig Maher is set to bring in two more partners from White & Case in London as the US firm continues its push in the City. Banking and capital markets partners Andrew Caunt and Andrew Croxford are both set to join Greenberg over the next few days. Their appointments come only weeks after Legal Week reported that Greenberg was launching a capital markets practice in the City with the hire of fellow White & Case partner Tim Jeveons.

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