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  • November 20, 2007 | International Edition

    Beachcroft outsources Bristol front office

    Beachcroft is to outsource all its front-office functions in Bristol to services provider Intelligent Office UK, as the national firm prepares to transfer to new office space in the southwest city next year. The move will see five staff, including those manning the firm's reception and meeting rooms, transferred to Intelligent Office, with two further staff members set to join the team onsite.

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  • November 20, 2007 |

    Beachcroft outsources Bristol front office

    Beachcroft is to outsource all its front-office functions in Bristol to services provider Intelligent Office UK, as the national firm prepares to transfer to new office space in the southwest city next year. The move will see five staff, including those manning the firm's reception and meeting rooms, transferred to Intelligent Office, with two further staff members set to join the team onsite.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers

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  • November 12, 2007 |

    Simmons, Dentons in double-digit H1 growth

    City firms Denton Wilde Sapte and Simmons & Simmons have announced double-digit growth in turnover for the first half of the financial year. Dentons saw revenue increase by 10% for the most recent six-month period, while profits jumped by 24%. Simmons, meanwhile, said fee income had increased by 16% compared to the equivalent period last year.

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  • November 12, 2007 | International Edition

    Norton Rose, LG top new AIM adviser rankings

    Norton Rose, LG, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and DLA Piper are among a clutch of UK firms to have cashed in on the rapid growth of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in recent years, according to new figures released today (12 November). Top 10 City firm Norton Rose advises more AIM-listed clients than any other UK practice, according to the Hemscott statistics, having acted for 64 businesses to have floated on London's junior stock exchange.

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  • November 12, 2007 |

    Norton Rose, LG top new AIM adviser rankings

    Norton Rose, LG, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and DLA Piper are among a clutch of UK firms to have cashed in on the rapid growth of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in recent years, according to new figures released today (12 November). Top 10 City firm Norton Rose advises more AIM-listed clients than any other UK practice, according to the Hemscott statistics, having acted for 64 businesses to have floated on London's junior stock exchange.

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    CC matches City pace with 18% H1 growth

    Magic circle giant Clifford Chance (CC) is the latest to report its half year results with the firm announcing an 18% rise in H1 turnover for 2007-08, taking its revenue for the period up to around £680m. The percentage increase matches that of fellow magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is ahead of arch City rival Allen & Overy, which recorded a 16% increase in turnover. The results put those firms' revenues for the period at £560m and £456m respectively.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Pensions group unveils Pinsents partner as chair

    Pinsent Masons partner Alastair Meeks has been named the new chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers (APL). Meeks landed the role after an election by APL's membership, which now numbers more than 900 UK-based lawyers. London-based Meeks has been a pensions lawyer at the national firm for 15 years. His tenure at the APL takes effect from next week (16 November).

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Nail that niche

    A recent article in Legal Week argued that, as all law firms advertise a sector strategy nowadays, sector specialism is no longer a real point of differentiation. Indeed, on one hand, from the perspective of an independent observer, it could look as if every leading law firm in the UK has a sector group claiming expertise in manufacturing, financial services, technology and so on.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Eighteen of 19 top firms report double-digit H1 growth

    The UK's top law firms have posted a robust set of half year results, with 18 out of 19 firms to have announced their figures so far unveiling double-digit revenue growth. The results (see table below) show no less than seven firms posting turnover increases of 20% or more compared to the equivalent period last year.

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