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  • August 22, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 22/8/07

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and recent updates on the Legal Week Wiki include Pinsent Masons and Shoosmiths

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  • August 21, 2007 | International Edition

    Scots giant on track with £1bn railways role

    Dundas & Wilson has won an eye-catching appointment from Transport Scotland as the main legal adviser on a railway investment programme worth more than £1bn. The appointment represents Dundas' first instruction from the body since being reappointed to the legal panel of the Scottish Executive earlier this year, although the big four Scots firm has advised Transport Scotland in the past.

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  • August 21, 2007 |

    Scots giant on track with £1bn railways role

    Dundas & Wilson has won an eye-catching appointment from Transport Scotland as the main legal adviser on a railway investment programme worth more than £1bn. The appointment represents Dundas' first instruction from the body since being reappointed to the legal panel of the Scottish Executive earlier this year, although the big four Scots firm has advised Transport Scotland in the past.

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  • August 9, 2007 |

    Pinsents and US ally pull plug on projects JV

    Pinsent Masons has pulled the plug on its joint venture (JV) with US ally Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steinwer because of its running costs. The operation, which focused on construction work, was set up by legacy firm Masons in 2003 under the banner Masons Thelen Reid (MTR).

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  • August 8, 2007 |

    Scotland: Home and away

    From London to Aberdeen, Scotland's law firms are branching out and the English are moving in. But is the success of some Scots firms' London operations a cause for concern among those rooted to Edinburgh and Glasgow - or does London success come at a price? Ed Thornton reports

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  • August 8, 2007 |

    Transylvanian families

    What are trainees for? Okay, so The Diary can think of a thousand unprintable answers City partners might offer to that question, but at Addleshaw Goddard the answer is... bricklaying.

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  • August 8, 2007 |

    Linklaters management rated top of UK elite for second year running

    Peer group survey rates Linklaters as having the best management among the UK's top 10 firms, while lawyers also voice their faith in the improving standards of law firm leadership. Ben Mitchell reports on the results of the latest Big Question survey

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    Big four secure world-beater status as top 50 breaks £10bn

    London's big four have secured their place among the emerging global elite after what will be seen as a breakthrough year for the UK's leading law firms.

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Nationals get City status with strong results

    Top national firms have outperformed their City counterparts, making the group among the strongest performers in the UK over the past six years.

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  • July 17, 2007 |

    The unloved lawyer

    As the six readers of this blog will be aware, I would seriously like to know why nobody wants a City solicitor on their board. Our firms are some of the…

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