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  • June 22, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 22/6/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com on a very busy Friday; plus the pick of readers' comments; and the latest indispensable entry to Legal Village

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  • June 22, 2007 |

    DLA Piper ups City pay 19% but just 4% in regions

    DLA Piper has spiced up the ongoing pay war among the UK's top national firms after unveiling a 19% salary rise for its newly-qualified (NQ) solicitors in the City but an increase of just 4% in the regions. Legal Week can reveal today (22 June) that NQ lawyers at the transatlantic giant's London arm will pocket £63,000 for 2007-08, up from £53,000 last year.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Eversheds edges out rivals to land £450m Croydon regeneration deal

    Eversheds has won a substantial regeneration mandate with the UK giant landing an eye-catching role to advise the London Borough of Croydon on a £450m public-private partnership (PPP) in the region.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Employment: Gainful employment

    "Employment practices and employment lawyers used to be the poor cousins in the legal world, servicing law firms' corporate departments. That has changed. Now we have a seat at the table," says Edward Goodwyn, employment partner at Pinsent Masons. Just 15 years ago, former Simmons & Simmons partner Janet Gaymer founded the Employment Lawyers Association, having already set up Simmons' own employment department and begun the long process of raising the profile of her chosen practice area.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Pinsents and Maclays jump on digital bandwagon with launch of podcasts

    National firms Pinsent Masons and Maclay Murray & Spens have become the latest major UK practices to join the digital revolution with both firms' employment practices this month launching podcast services.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    The week in pictures: Technology special

    In the week it emerged that Eversheds was shelling out almost £30m on IT outsourcing (that's almost three times Danny Hall's annual drawings), The Dotcom Diary brings you the week in digitally-enhanced, Web 2.0 jpegs.

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  • June 12, 2007 |

    Government names record 48 firms on super-panel

    A record 48 firms have bagged places on the Government's legal panel, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) announced today (12 June). The OGC estimates the contracts will be worth a total of around £240m over the next four years.

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  • June 8, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 8/6/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of your comments and the best of the blogs

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    Addleshaws statement of intent exposes rivals' crude calculations

    Mark Jones, Addleshaw Goddard’s managing partner, is not a man prone to hyperbole or marketing guff, so it is unsurprising that he spoke to Legal…

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  • June 7, 2007 |

    Addleshaws' 21% pay hike shocks national market

    Addleshaw Goddard has hiked pay for its City-based junior lawyers by 21%, fuelling the prospects of a pay war among the UK's leading national firms.

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