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  • September 18, 2007 |

    Litigators start to lose those BCCI blues

    I wouldn't want to accuse litigators of delighting in the miseries of others, but there is a definite spring in the step of the delegates at today's Legal…

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  • September 15, 2007 |

    Covington slips down the pecking order

    In contrast, Covington & Burling, while not discounting greater competition in the marketplace, is confident - some might say overconfident - that it is on the right track. The firm points to its profits per partner, just more than $1m (£500,000) in 2006, and its high partner retention rate as two of many reasons why Covington has not felt as keen a need to transform itself in response to market forces.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Eversheds leads on $1bn deal in fast-growing care home sector

    Eversheds has landed a role opposite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on the $1.1bn (£542m) acquisition of a retirement home portfolio from Sunrise Senior Living in one of the biggest deals in the sector this year.

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  • September 6, 2007 | International Edition

    Davis Polk recruits Jeantet chief for renewed Paris push

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited the managing partner of respected Paris independent Jeantet along with another partner, as the Wall Street leader boosts its only foreign law practice. Georges Terrier joins Davis Polk along with corporate partner Christophe Perchet in a significant boost to the top 25 US law firm's Paris arm.

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  • September 6, 2007 |

    Davis Polk recruits Jeantet chief for renewed Paris push

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited the managing partner of respected Paris independent Jeantet along with another partner, as the Wall Street leader boosts its only foreign law practice. Georges Terrier joins Davis Polk along with corporate partner Christophe Perchet in a significant boost to the top 25 US law firm's Paris arm.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    UK firms poised to reap rewards of class action litigation upswing

    The vast majority of the UK's top lawyers expect class action-style group litigation work to increase across Europe in the near future as advisers bid to cash in on the nascent market. According to the results of the latest Legal Week/EJ Legal Big Question survey, nearly 25% of senior lawyers are forecasting a substantial rise in class action work with a further 50% of respondents anticipating at least some scope for growth.

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  • August 31, 2007 |

    As class action hits Europe, securities cases slump in US heartlands

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft stock some years ago, he was part of a class of plaintiffs. The class had already brought a lawsuit against Microsoft for a problem the reader had never noticed. Now the settlement was being divided and the reader might be entitled to something. But the reader, disheartened by the sheaf of forms asking for details about a barely remembered transaction, usually tossed the notice in the trash and started flipping through that day's Pottery Barn catalog.

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    UK firms bypassed as US associates rank Wachtell top of prestige tables

    US associate survey rates elite New York firms as most prestigious places to work; no UK firms make top 20

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Dewey makes double partner hire in the US

    New York law firm Dewey Ballantine has continued its bid to strengthen its domestic practice with the hire of Nixon Peabody intellectual property litigation partner Jeff Schwartz and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom senior corporate finance lawyer Avinash Ganatra. Ganatra joins Dewey's New York HQ as a partner and Schwartz joins the Washington DC office.

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  • August 9, 2007 |

    Dewey recruits Skadden partner for finance boost

    Dewey Ballantine has hired a senior lawyer from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom to boost its corporate finance practice. Avinash Ganatra joins the law firm's New York office as a partner, having previously been a counsel in Skadden's New York HQ. Ganatra was one of the founding members of the South Asian Bar Association of New York in 1998 and served as the organisation's president from 1998 to 2000.

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