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  • June 8, 2007 | International Edition

    Lovells leads BBC's Manchester 'mediacity' move

    Lovells has advised the BBC on its move to a new broadcasting and production centre set to be built near Manchester. The City giant's projects and real estate practices joined up to advise the broadcaster on the controversial move, which will see around 1,500 London-based staff relocate to the new development in Salford Quays in 2011. Eight-hundred Manchester-based BBC staff will also relocate to the new property when it is completed.

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  • June 8, 2007 |

    Lovells leads BBC's Manchester 'mediacity' move

    Lovells has advised the BBC on its move to a new broadcasting and production centre set to be built near Manchester. The City giant's projects and real estate practices joined up to advise the broadcaster on the controversial move, which will see around 1,500 London-based staff relocate to the new development in Salford Quays in 2011. Eight-hundred Manchester-based BBC staff will also relocate to the new property when it is completed.

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  • June 8, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 8/6/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of your comments and the best of the blogs

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    Addleshaws statement of intent exposes rivals' crude calculations

    Mark Jones, Addleshaw Goddard’s managing partner, is not a man prone to hyperbole or marketing guff, so it is unsurprising that he spoke to Legal…

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  • June 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Camerons becomes seventh UK firm to break £500,000 PEP this year

    CMS Cameron McKenna has become the seventh UK firm to break the £500,000 profits per equity partner (PEP) barrier so far this year, posting a 5.5% rise for the past financial year. The City firm has announced PEP of £502,000 for the financial year, up from £476,000 last year. Revised turnover now stands at £197.4m, up 6.5% from last year's value of £185.3m.

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    Camerons becomes seventh UK firm to break £500,000 PEP this year

    CMS Cameron McKenna has become the seventh UK firm to break the £500,000 profits per equity partner (PEP) barrier so far this year, posting a 5.5% rise for the past financial year. The City firm has announced PEP of £502,000 for the financial year, up from £476,000 last year. Revised turnover now stands at £197.4m, up 6.5% from last year's value of £185.3m.

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    Addleshaws' 21% pay hike shocks national market

    Addleshaw Goddard has hiked pay for its City-based junior lawyers by 21%, fuelling the prospects of a pay war among the UK's leading national firms.

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    Facebook wrangle leaves firms uncertain about web revolution

    Allen & Overy's (A&O's) slightly fumbling recent attempts to deal with the Facebook phenomenon may have given rivals a good opportunity for a laugh at the City giant's expense. But the reality is that most of A&O's rivals are trying themselves to figure out whether online social networking and related techniques like blogging are key communication tools or a dangerous threat and distraction to be contained at all costs.

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  • June 6, 2007 |

    National trio join raft of firms posting robust fee growth

    Three national firms have unveiled strong financial performances in the last week, joining in a stream of non-London firms to have enjoyed double-digit growth in 2006-07.

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  • June 6, 2007 |

    City firms chip in for low-income careers initiative

    A dozen leading UK law firms is sponsoring a far-reaching initiative aimed at helping bright state school students to improve their career prospects. Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Norton Rose, CMS Cameron McKenna, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Addleshaw Goddard join 30 other organisations sponsoring the event, which is run by independent group Pure Potential Days.

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