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  • July 16, 2013 |

    Norton Rose Fulbright turns to CMS for City private equity partner hire

    Norton Rose Fulbright has bulked up its City corporate and M&A team with the hire of CMS Cameron McKenna partner Richard Bull. Bull, who was made up as a corporate partner at CMS in 2009, acts primarily for private equity clients, sponsors, portfolio companies and management teams, with particular experience in the financial services and technology sectors.

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  • July 15, 2013 |

    Eight-partner Norton Rose Fulbright Dubai team leaves for Baker Botts

    Baker Botts has sealed the hire of a 14-lawyer team from Norton Rose Fulbright in the Middle East, including eight legacy Fulbright & Jaworski partners. The team, which made up the bulk of legacy Fulbright's operation in Dubai's Festival City, includes corporate partner John Lonsberg, who helped to establish Fulbright's presence in the Middle East when he joined the firm in 2005.

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  • July 11, 2013 |

    Links, Travers and Shoosmiths come out top in associate satisfaction poll

    Linklaters and Norton Rose Fulbright have been rated as the law firms that associates at rivals would most like to work for, according to new research by Legal Week. Legal Week Intelligence's flagship Employee Satisfaction Report (ESR) this year found the pair ranked ahead of Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Pinsent Masons as the five most popular firms to work for, as rated by peers at rival law firms. Norton Rose, A&O and Slaughters have been in the top five for the last three years of the survey, while Pinsents and Linklaters are new entrants this year, replacing Berwin Leighton Paisner and Clyde & Co.

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  • July 11, 2013 |

    Singapore leader Rajah & Tann seals alliance with triple merger of Malaysia firms

    Rajah & Tann has made its formal debut into Malaysia this month after signing a strategic alliance with local Malaysian outfit Christopher & Lee Ong. The Singapore firm, which also did tie up with Indonesian firm Assegaf Hamzah & Partners in May, is among a number of outfits from the city-state looking to grow its footprint in South East Asia and tap the steady flow of deals from the region.

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  • July 10, 2013 |

    Line-up of top law firms win spots on new RBS EMEA panel

    Clifford Chance (CC), Allen & Overy (A&O), White & Case and Eversheds are among a host of firms to have won places on Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) EMEA legal panel. At least 21 international firms have taken coveted spots on the panel - which covers the bank's legal work across 24 European, Middle East and African countries - following a competitive tender process.

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  • July 5, 2013 |

    Eversheds posts 3% revenue rise with partner profits up 2% to £642,000

    Eversheds has posted a 3% increase in revenues and a 2% rise in profits per equity partner (PEP) over the 2012-13 financial year. The firm saw its revenues increased to £376m from £366m while PEP rose from £632,000 last year to £642,000 this year. According to Eversheds, net profit rose 6% with all litigation teams witnessing strong growth while its financial institutions and energy and natural resources sectors grew by 20% and 14% respectively.

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  • July 4, 2013 |

    Norton Rose reports 4% turnover rise for year up to Fulbright merger

    Norton Rose Fulbright has reported a 4% increase in global turnover after seeing income rise to $1.334bn (£845.3m) during 2012-13. The figures cover the year to 30 April, and as such do not yet reflect the firm's transatlantic merger with Texas firm Fulbright & Jaworski, which went live on 1 June.

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  • July 4, 2013 |

    Go your own way - Norton Rose Fulbright CEO Peter Martyr on how he changed his firm's mindset

    At the Global Independent Law Firms Forum, Norton Rose Fulbright chief executive Peter Martyr told John Malpas how he changed his firm's mindset and urged business lawyers to give more back to society

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  • July 4, 2013 |

    Near-shoring and LPO takes hold as more top 30 firms eye moves

    Fifteen of the UK's top 30 law firms by revenue have either set up their own low-cost legal centre or are sending routine legal work to legal process outsourcing (LPO) providers, according to research conducted by Legal Week. Several other leading firms are reviewing their options, including Stephenson Harwood, which is considering opening a low-cost legal centre, and SJ Berwin, which is in early stage talks to outsource its document production team.

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  • July 4, 2013 |

    Branching out - how top law firms are going beyond the City to cut costs

    Deutsche Bank's global head of compliance, Simon Dodds, is one of many senior in-house lawyers to have called on City-based law firms to farm out straightforward legal work to low-cost centres. "Magic circle law firms in particular have a problem with their model. [They have] commoditised to some extent but lawyers are sitting in London – the most expensive place in the world," he told a Legal Week conference.

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