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  • November 30, 2012 |

    Diversity initiative PRIME surpasses work experience targets by 10%

    Social diversity initiative PRIME has exceeded its target for the number of work experience placements offered, with 10% more opportunities offered at law firms than was aimed for.

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  • November 29, 2012 |

    Three steps forward – Milbank Tweed aims to translate a proud Wall St brand to the City

    Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy may have opened in London more than 30 years ago, but it is only in recent months that its recruitment efforts have really started to gather pace. Last month's hire of Norton Rose financial disputes partner Charles Evans capped a run of high-profile new joiners for the US firm's City arm, with the appointment marking the fifth lateral partner addition in as many months. It followed the recruitment of former Linklaters projects veteran Clive Ransome and Mayer Brown leveraged finance partner Neil Caddy in August, while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Nicholas Spearing, the office's first competition partner, joined in June – a year after Milbank narrowly missed out on hiring SJ Berwin's then EU and competition head Stephen Kon, who opted to remain at the City firm where he is now senior partner.

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  • November 29, 2012 |

    Eversheds acts on Shell-Waitrose petrol deal

    Eversheds has advised on an agreement between Shell UK and Waitrose that will see the oil and gas giant take over the running of the retail chain's petrol stations. The deal has seen Waitrose, which is part of the John Lewis Partnership, allow Shell to take over the branding of its petrol stations and supply petrol to Waitrose filling stations for a five-year period.

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  • November 29, 2012 |

    Carillion to drive panel firm work through new low-cost legal arm

    Carillion is to make all of its recently appointed panel firms use its new low-cost arm in Newcastle for commoditised work as the FTSE 250 construction group considers offering the service to other companies or law firms. The Newcastle base, known as Carillion Advisory Services (CAS), currently houses 60 paralegals providing support to Carillion on the commoditised elements of deals and other work, as well as providing legal aid advice to clients.

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  • November 28, 2012 |

    Bond Pearce and Field Fisher advise as Post Office secures key DVLA contract

    Bond Pearce and Field Fisher Waterhouse have advised on the Post Office's successful bid to continue supplying tax discs to UK motorists. The £450m contract with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will see the Post Office's standing authority to sell road tax and run driving licence applications renewed for a further seven years.

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  • November 26, 2012 |

    Slaughters elects disputes chief Clark to helm of firm as White retires

    Slaughter and May has elected head of dispute resolution Richard Clark as its new executive partner, succeeding current post-holder Graham White. Clark will take up a four-year term from 1 May 2013, taking responsibility for the firm's overall management strategy, covering issues relating to people, compliance, finance and systems.

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  • November 23, 2012 |

    RPC takes on insurance GC as partner

    Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has recruited corporate insurance specialist Charlotte Taggart as partner from independent insurance broker Lockton Companies International. Taggart, who spent four years at Lockton as international general counsel, will join RPC on 1 January, bringing the number of corporate insurance lawyers at the firm to 35.

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Slaughters, Bird & Bird and BLP lead City pack on client satisfaction

    Slaughter and May, Bird & Bird and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have emerged as the top-rated law firms in the UK top 20 according to a major new research project by Legal Week which canvassed the opinions of more than 1,200 clients. Legal Week Intelligence's ninth annual Client Satisfaction Report puts the firms squarely ahead of rivals based on responses from more than 1,650 individuals at 1,204 companies, including 89% of the FTSE 100.

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  • November 22, 2012 | International Edition

    Rage against the machine – can Linklaters still do the vision thing?

    Lauded as a world-beater during the boom, Linklaters found itself in 2012 dogged by controversy and discord after its latest restructuring. Georgina Stanley asks if the City icon can still do the vision thing

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Rage against the machine – can Linklaters still do the vision thing?

    Lauded as a world-beater during the boom, Linklaters found itself in 2012 dogged by controversy and discord after its latest restructuring. Georgina Stanley asks if the City icon can still do the vision thing

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