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  • September 19, 2007 |

    DWF lands place on Leeds Met legal panel

    Northwest law firm DWF has won a place on the legal panel for Leeds Metropolitan University.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    Addleshaws taps school regeneration market with £250m east London deal

    Addleshaw Goddard has sealed an eye-catching mandate to advise on a new £250m schools regeneration project in northeast London.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    Landmark Microsoft case reaches finale

    A host of top-tier transatlantic firms have finally seen an end to the nine-year €497m (£344m) Microsoft court battle which finished this week with wide-reaching implications for European competition law.

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  • September 17, 2007 |

    Hammonds extends notice periods in associate benefits revamp

    Hammonds has brought in a new-look benefits package for associates in a move that also extends the notice periods required of its junior lawyers. The new incentives scheme is part of a wider revamp of the firm's compensation for junior fee earners that began earlier this year and includes greater holiday allowances as its lawyers move up the career ladder, with senior associates receiving 27 days of paid leave a year.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Mishcons partner becomes latest Withers IP hire

    Withers has beefed up its intellectual property (IP) practice in the capital after scooping the head of non-contentious brands and rights from London rival Mishcon de Reya.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    The North: Deal or no deal

    They have won the big clients and are doing the big deals, but how do they solve the problem of luring the lawyers back up north? Helen Mooney reports

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    The North: Leeds by example

    In 2000, Professor Alan Paterson of Strathclyde University described Leeds as "the largest legal market outside London".

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 12/9/2007

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

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Mishcons signs up Pinsents partner duo

    Mishcon de Reya has recruited a two-partner team from Pinsent Masons to enhance its intellectual property (IP) practice.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Mills & Reeve hires DLA Piper's Jones to boost Birmingham property team

    Mills & Reeve has snared DLA Piper partner Alex Jones to head up its real estate practice in Birmingham, Legal Week can report.

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