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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Simmons rated as UK's most gay-friendly firm

    Four law firms have been included in this year's Workplace Equality Index compiled by gay rights charity Stonewall. The index, which ranks the top 100 gay-friendly employers in the UK, included Simmons & Simmons as the highest-ranked law firm in 15th place, up from 31st place last year.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    New research highlights financial benefits of legal process outsourcing

    New research produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers has highlighted the growth of legal process outsourcing (LPO) services in the wake of the economic downturn. The study, which canvassed 514 outsourcing service providers in 50 countries around the world, identified legal services outsourcing as providing the highest cost savings - 44% - in comparison to other markets.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    The nuclear option

    Mark Richards, international operations chief counsel at US engineering firm CH2M Hill, is pleased to be back in the office. He recently returned from Abu Dhabi, where he spent much of last year leading the primary contractor selection on United Arab Emirates' nuclear power programme, which CH2M Hill is project managing - a baptism of fire to a job that Richards began in September 2008. It has been an interesting project, he says, but has not left much time to get to grips with the other elements of his newly-created London-based role.

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  • January 7, 2010 | International Edition

    Pinsents recruits DLA partner to head up Manchester banking team

    Pinsent Masons has bolstered its Manchester banking and finance practice with the hire of Matthew Morgan from DLA Piper. Morgan joined Pinsents this week (4 January) to lead the national firm's banking team in Manchester.

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  • January 7, 2010 |

    Pinsents recruits DLA partner to head up Manchester banking team

    Pinsent Masons has bolstered its Manchester banking and finance practice with the hire of Matthew Morgan from DLA Piper. Morgan joined Pinsents this week (4 January) to lead the national firm's banking team in Manchester.

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  • January 5, 2010 |

    Pinsents projects partner receives CBE in New Year Honours list

    Pinsent Masons projects partner Martin Harman has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list. Harman, who joined legacy firm Masons' construction group in 1975 and has been a partner for 24 years, received the honour for services to international trade and the legal profession.

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  • December 21, 2009 | International Edition

    Law firm management: The hard sell

    "A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Law firm management: The hard sell

    "A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: All tied up

    The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.

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  • December 15, 2009 |

    Pinsents boosts Mid East tech and outsourcing group with DLA hire

    Pinsent Masons has appointed a Middle East head of outsourcing, technology and commercial (OTC), with the hire of DLA Piper telecoms specialist Lenka Glynn. Glynn, who is currently a legal director at DLA Piper in Dubai, will join Pinsents at the beginning of the New Year as a partner.

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