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  • September 27, 2007 |

    Legal Week Assistant: The full story

    Legal Week's in-depth survey of the country's top law firms offers the big picture on just what law firms offer their assistants and associates - from salary, to soft benefits, to career progression. Read on to find out how your law firm fares and how the competition stacks up. Derek Bedlow and Sophie Evans report

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  • September 27, 2007 |

    Manchester's Pannone in Gosnay coup

    Pannone has bagged high-profile former Watson Burton partner Andrew Gosnay in a coup for its corporate and finance practice, Legal Week can reveal today (27 September). Gosnay joins the Manchester stalwart on Monday (1 October) as a partner in its banking and finance practice.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Commentary: Midlands M&A low makes London push ever more crucial

    Deal Week is so used to bullish economic forecasts from lawyers that when activity levels fall to 'reasonable' or are 'on the road to recovery' it normally means something is wrong.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 26/9/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Hammonds, Clifford Chance and Travers Smith among the movers and shakers

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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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