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  • April 18, 2013 |

    Norton Rose boosts trainee retention to 89% of May qualifiers

    Norton Rose has posted a sharp increase in its trainee retention rate by keeping on 89% of its May 2013 intake of qualifiers. The top 10 firm offered newly qualified (NQ) solicitor roles to 18 of its 19-strong trainee intake, with 17 acceptances.

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  • March 14, 2013 |

    CC makes key white collar hire with addition of top Norton Rose partner

    Clifford Chance (CC) is bulking up its regulatory enforcement and white collar crime practice in London with the hire of Norton Rose litigation partner Dorian Drew. Drew, who joined Norton Rose in 2000, recently led a Norton Rose team advising former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond in relation to the Libor rate-fixing scandal. He is expected to join CC this summer.

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  • March 5, 2013 |

    CC overtakes Links as top law firm in annual ranking of business brands

    Clifford Chance (CC) has moved ahead of Linklaters to regain its position as the top-ranked law firm in the annual Superbrands poll of leading UK business brands. CC dropped to second place behind its magic circle rival last year, but retook the top law firm spot this year - despite dropping 63 places to rank 241 out of a total of 500 brands.

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  • February 14, 2013 | International Edition

    Crunch time – the real work is just beginning for Norton Rose

    Five quick-fire international mergers and three-and-a-half years are all it will have taken Norton Rose to transform its business from struggling UK mid-tier practice to global giant by the time its merger with Fulbright & Jaworski goes live this summer. Any way you look at it, the scale of what the firm has achieved is impressive, as our analysis this week illustrates. Even rivals – usually quick to criticise – readily concede that the mergers Norton Rose has pushed through are hard to knock.

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  • February 14, 2013 |

    And now for the hard part – after five mergers, can Norton Rose's CEO tackle his biggest challenge yet?

    When Norton Rose's merger with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski goes live on 1 June, it will have completed its fifth tie-up in just three-and-a-half years. Given that even one merger is beyond the ability of many of the UK's leading players, the achievement cannot be underestimated. The unions mean that in just 42 months, Norton Rose will have transformed itself from an also-ran UK law firm with a smattering of international offices and turnover of £314m into a global giant operating in 55 locations around the world with revenues approaching £1.3bn.

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  • February 14, 2013 |

    Crunch time – the real work is just beginning for Norton Rose

    Five quick-fire international mergers and three-and-a-half years are all it will have taken Norton Rose to transform its business from struggling UK mid-tier practice to global giant by the time its merger with Fulbright & Jaworski goes live this summer. Any way you look at it, the scale of what the firm has achieved is impressive, as our analysis this week illustrates. Even rivals – usually quick to criticise – readily concede that the mergers Norton Rose has pushed through are hard to knock.

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  • February 14, 2013 |

    Norton Rose hands top global board role to Australia chairman

    Norton Rose has appointed Australia chair Adrian Ahern as the new global chairman of the Norton Rose Group, as preparations for its June merger with Texas firm Fulbright & Jaworski gather pace. Ahern will succeed Norman Steinberg as head of the firm's global supervisory board, which currently includes 14 members across the group, in addition to Steinberg. Ahern will also take up a non-exec position on the global executive committee.

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  • February 12, 2013 |

    K&L takes Fulbright partner ahead of Norton Rose tie-up for Houston launch

    K&L Gates has opened in Houston with the hire of Fulbright & Jaworski's head of securities, Charles Strauss. Strauss has worked for Fulbright for 30 years and served on the firm's partner committee, as well as several diversity and inclusion committees. His exit comes ahead of Fulbright's merger with Norton Rose this June.

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  • February 7, 2013 |

    Norton Rose moots funding options for global expansion into new regions

    Norton Rose is in the early stages of looking at how to fund expansion into new regions, as it gears up for this June's merger with US outfit Fulbright & Jaworski. The firm, which already operates a shared account across Norton Rose Group to cover central costs such as IT, finance, branding and research and development, is looking at how the cost of new launches can best be shared between different parts of the business.

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  • February 1, 2013 |

    Norton Rose top earner took home £1m for last financial year, accounts reveal

    Norton Rose's highest earning member pocketed just over £1m in 2011-12 - a 22% increase on the previous year, according to financial documents recently filed with Companies House. The profit share entitlement - revealed in the limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts for Norton Rose LLP, which covers the original Norton Rose UK and international business but exclude its mergers in Canada, South Africa and Australia - compares with an equivalent figure of £839,000 the previous year.

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