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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Travers takes top law firm prize at British Legal Awards 2012

    Travers Smith, Norton Rose and LV= were among the prize winners at last night's (22 November) British Legal Awards, which took place at London's Old Billingsgate Market. Travers saw off competition from Berwin Leighton Paisner, Clifford Chance, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon de Reya and Olswang to scoop the coveted Law Firm of the Year award.

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Rage against the machine – can Linklaters still do the vision thing?

    Lauded as a world-beater during the boom, Linklaters found itself in 2012 dogged by controversy and discord after its latest restructuring. Georgina Stanley asks if the City icon can still do the vision thing

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  • November 19, 2012 |

    Norton Rose follows up Fulbright merger with hire of A&O IP partner

    Norton Rose has hired high-profile intellectual property (IP) partner Huw Evans from Allen & Overy (A&O). Evans, who joined A&O from Wragge & Co in 2009, focuses on patent litigation and cross-border disputes, and works across a range of sectors, including technology, telecoms and pharmaceuticals.

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  • November 15, 2012 |

    Norton Rose ends hunt for US merger partner with $2bn Fulbright tie-up

    Norton Rose has sealed one of the largest-ever transatlantic mergers, with the firm agreeing to tie up with Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski in June 2013. The deal, approved by more than 75% of Fulbright partners at the weekend and by Norton Rose partners at the firm's Toronto conference earlier this month, will create a firm just outside the global top five, with combined revenues of nearly $2bn (£1.26bn) – just behind Clifford Chance.

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  • November 15, 2012 | International Edition

    Branded, for good or ill – for Dentons, bigger may not be better

    "Dentons' management shouldn't expect much of a honeymoon as bigger does not always equal better and, in this case, the firm will have a lot to prove after Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Denton Wilde Sapte badly underperformed on initial hopes following their 2010 tie-up..."

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  • November 15, 2012 |

    Branded, for good or ill – for Dentons, bigger may not be better

    "Dentons' management shouldn't expect much of a honeymoon as bigger does not always equal better and, in this case, the firm will have a lot to prove after Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Denton Wilde Sapte badly underperformed on initial hopes following their 2010 tie-up..."

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  • November 14, 2012 |

    Norton Rose and Fulbright & Jaworski to merge from June 2013

    Norton Rose is set to merge with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski from June next year, creating a 3,800 lawyer firm. The merged entity, which will be known as Norton Rose Fulbright, will sit just outside the global top five law firms, with revenues of just under $2bn.

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  • October 25, 2012 | International Edition

    The hard sell – profiling the mad men and women who strive to sell law

    "Procter & Gamble may have been created by soap makers, but their brands have been built by running them as a rounded business," argues Mishcon de Reya's iconoclastic business development director Elliot Moss. "You would have never heard of P&G if they had left just the soap makers in charge. Law firms are no different."

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  • October 18, 2012 | International Edition

    New world orders: the 2012 Global 100

    At first glance the 2012 Global 100 rankings, which show revenues for the world's largest law firms rising to an all time high of $81.9bn (£50.8bn) during the last financial year, do much to prove the well-coined expression that, rain or shine, people (or at least major public companies) always need lawyers.

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  • October 18, 2012 | International Edition

    Global 100: top firms push revenues to new high amid merger rush

    Consolidation in the legal market has helped the world's 100 largest law firms to cast aside the ongoing economic downturn to see combined revenues soar to a record high of $81.9bn (£50.7bn) over the last year.

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