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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Commentary: Freshfields star becomes Magpies' latest big signing

    Lawyers love reading the sports pages. Even for the ones that know very little about it, there seems to be an inherent need to keep abreast of Premiership football affairs, if only to be able to discuss it with clients.

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  • July 3, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 3/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and Beachcroft managing partner Paul Murray is the latest law firm leader under the Herding Cats microscope

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Italy: The cult of personality

    Italy's lawyers see themselves as individuals, rather than cogs in the corporate wheel. Claire Ruckin analyses the management challenges this presents as Italy's firms go global

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  • June 22, 2007 |

    CC, A&O beat Freshfields and Links for H1 M&A

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) have replaced Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters at the top of European M&A rankings for the first half of 2007. CC and A&O finished first and second respectively in the tables, knocking their magic circle rivals into third and fourth place, according to preliminary figures released by Mergermarket today (22 June).

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  • June 21, 2007 | International Edition

    US firms resist Weil-style pay hikes as salary market begins to fragment

    O'Melveny & Myers, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Hogan & Hartson have set their London associate salary rates, with the firms holding fast against the increases announced at Weil Gotshal & Manges last week. All three have remained in line with the mid-Atlantic newly-qualified rates set by White & Case (£76,000) and Shearman & Sterling (£75,000) earlier this year.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    US firms resist Weil-style pay hikes as salary market begins to fragment

    O'Melveny & Myers, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Hogan & Hartson have set their London associate salary rates, with the firms holding fast against the increases announced at Weil Gotshal & Manges last week. All three have remained in line with the mid-Atlantic newly-qualified rates set by White & Case (£76,000) and Shearman & Sterling (£75,000) earlier this year.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 20/6/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Freshfields, Ashurst and Wragges among the runners and riders.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Linklaters set to recruit senior M&A partner for Italian push

    Linklaters is set to boost its Italian arm with the high-profile hire of an equity partner from respected local M&A boutique Pedersoli.

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    US duo scoop latest mega buy-out

    East Coast firms Weil Gotshal & Manges and Ropes & Gray have bagged the lead roles on America's latest multi-billion dollar leveraged buy-out (LBO), advising on a $8.2bn (£4.1bn) consortium bid for electronic group Avaya. Boston private equity leader Ropes & Gray is advising the consortium which consists of Silver Lake and Texas Pacific Group, while Weil Gotshal is advising the target.

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  • June 6, 2007 |

    More senior lawyers quit Stroock as rivals target bankruptcy talent

    New York firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has fallen victim to the latest predatory hire in the US restructuring market with seven senior lawyers leaving its bankruptcy group in the last month alone.

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