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  • May 17, 2012 | International Edition

    Young and restless - John Young reflects on a 33-year legal career

    At the end of last month John Young bowed out of Hogan Lovells by somewhat unusually zipwiring across Old Billingsgate market in front of more than 900 lawyers and staff at a summer party (brought forward to coincide with his retirement) dressed as Braveheart.

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  • April 4, 2012 | International Edition

    The agenda - sizing up the profession's efforts to tackle social diversity

    The legal profession has finally put social diversity 'on the agenda'. Georgina Stanley asks if it will be enough to counter an increasingly unequal British society

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  • March 2, 2012 | International Edition

    Different routes – the non-magic circle way to fly American

    The magic circle may have yet to find their dream partners in New York, but the more flexible model used by some London rivals - notably Hogan Lovells and DLA Piper - has allowed them to make considerable progress in the US...

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  • March 1, 2012 | International Edition

    The long, long haul - can the magic circle break America?

    As attention turns to emerging economies, London's top firms continue to press on in the US. Georgina Stanley asks whether a breakthrough is finally in sight

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  • October 4, 2011 |

    Norton Rose seals South America entrance with new Canada tie-up

    Norton Rose has confirmed that it is to add a second Canadian firm to its international network, with Calgary-based Macleod Dixon to merge with the firm on 1 January 2012. The move, news of which first emerged in the Canadian press yesterday (3 October), will gift the group an additional 250 fee earners, adding to its Swiss Verein-structured international network which already comprises 2,500 fee earners.

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  • September 14, 2011 |

    Norton Rose on agenda as US leader Fulbright reviews global strategy

    Fulbright & Jaworski has kicked off a review of its international strategy that could see the top 50 US firm pursuing a much-touted merger with Norton Rose. The Texan firm's global chairman Steven Pfeiffer launched the review two months ago, with a prospective UK merger forming a central plank of the consultation. A merger with Norton Rose is not thought to be the only option under consideration; however, the firm is the preferred target for a number of partners within Fulbright, which has not yet engaged Norton Rose in any discussions.

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  • August 8, 2011 | International Edition

    Weil names City partner as firmwide international arbitration head

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has named London disputes partner Juliet Blanch as firmwide head of international arbitration. Blanch, who joined Weil last year from the City office of McDermott Will & Emery, has replaced Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, who left Weil at the end of 2010 to join King & Spalding in New York.

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  • July 13, 2011 | International Edition

    Partner exits – if you've got to go, don't go quite yet

    On the face of it there are very few parallels between Clifford Chance (CC) and SNR Denton right now, with CC's average profits per equity partner standing around the £1m mark, while those at legacy Dentons lag behind its City peers at just £232,000. But in one respect the pair are taking a very similar approach, with both firms currently planning to hold some of their exiting partners to all, or most, of their notice periods.

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  • July 6, 2011 | International Edition

    Advisers: retail restructurings a sign of what's to come

    Habitat, Thorntons, Jane Norman, AllSaints… in recent weeks restructuring activity has been all about the high street and, with the possible exception of DLA Piper, which has worked on a string of high-profile mandates for struggling stores, there seem to have been very few winners. The last few weeks alone have seen DLA and Maclay Murray & Spens appointed on the pre-pack and sale of struggling fashion chain Jane Norman; Linklaters and Salans brought in on the administration of Habitat and sale of its UK brand to Home Retail Group; and Shoosmiths mandated to advise chocolate maker Thorntons on a strategic review set to result in up to 180 shops closing across the UK.

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  • June 15, 2011 | International Edition

    Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

    Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends

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