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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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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Cobbetts

    With the bruising partnership restructuring of 2006 now in the past, it's a make-or-break period for this emerging national player.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Hammonds

    The national giant continues to wrestle with the consequences of its over-expansion in the 1990s.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Eversheds

    Sprawling national giant that seems to be slowly gaining a bit more direction. One to watch.

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  • December 2, 2009 |

    LLP filings show nearly 400 partners left UK top 20 firms in 2009

    The UK's top 20 law firms have seen nearly 400 partners leave since the beginning of 2009, with Clifford Chance (CC), Eversheds and Allen & Overy (A&O) topping the departure rankings. Limited liability partnership (LLP) filings with Companies House show that 384 partners have left the UK's largest 20 firms by revenue since 1 January – in a year in which many firms have been actively restructuring their partnerships and managing out partners. This figure rises to 496 including partners resigning from the LLP but remaining with the firms as consultants or offices outside the LLP.

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  • December 1, 2009 |

    Eversheds lands role on £500m Thames Gateway regeneration scheme

    Eversheds has secured a role on a £500m regeneration scheme for the Thames Gateway region. The top 10 firm will advise on the transformation of Purfleet in the Thames Gateway, under a public-private partnership agreement, which was given the green light from the Department of Communities and Local Government recently.

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  • December 1, 2009 |

    Independent Law Firms in Europe: A model of resilience

    The global recession has done little to alter the faith of Europe's independents in the strength of their law firm models. While the global UK and US-based firms have been busy with internal housekeeping and the struggle for position in their home markets, Europe's independent law firms cannot be accused of having let the opportunity pass them by.

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  • November 18, 2009 |

    Eight more UK top 30 firms size up legal outsourcing moves

    Some of the City's leading law firms are considering outsourcing legal work as increasing numbers of firms look to cut costs by using external providers for both legal and business support. Linklaters, SJ Berwin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS Cameron McKenna are among eight firms within the top 30 currently looking at introducing some aspects of legal process outsourcing (LPO).

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  • November 17, 2009 |

    Olswang posts 3% decrease in revenues at half-year stage

    Olswang has recorded a drop in half-year revenues, with turnover dipping to £43.3m. The drop marks a 3% decrease on the same period in 2008, when the UK top 50 firm posted fee income of £44.7m.

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