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  • October 14, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Reed Smith, Linklaters and RPC

    Reed Smith has added a partner to its London media team with the hire of Askandar Samad from DLA Piper. Samad's practice focuses on film and media financing, structured finance, co-production funding and tax. The hire for Reed Smith comes after the firm recruited Nick Swimer from Channel 4 - where he was head of legal for governance, regulatory and trading - in November last year.

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  • October 11, 2012 |

    Cracking the code - how retrieving electronic data should be child's play

    Cutting-edge technology is providing quicker access to electronic documents – but are law firms up to speed? Neil Hodge reports

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  • October 8, 2012 |

    Direct Line eyes move into legal services with planned ABS switch

    Direct Line has signalled its intention to become an alternative business structure (ABS) once it has completed its separation from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The insurance company, which is currently being advised by Allen & Overy and Slaughter and May on its £3bn initial public offering (IPO), revealed in its share flotation prospectus that it is considering applying for an ABS licence.

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  • October 4, 2012 |

    New tricks - Novartis GC Felix Ehrat reflects on one of the top jobs in law

    Despite a long career in private practice, Felix Ehrat has proved his mettle in-house as GC of pharmaceutical giant Novartis. Caroline Hill reports

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  • October 4, 2012 |

    Freshfields and Shearman target ethnic minority grads with recruitment deal

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Shearman & Sterling are ramping up their diversity efforts by signing up to work with an agency that specialises in African Caribbean graduates. The firms have joined the client list of Rare Recruitment, which specialises in providing high-achieving African Caribbean graduates, as well as other ethnic minorities.

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  • October 2, 2012 |

    Slaughters set to make 28 secretary job cuts in rare redundancy round

    Slaughter and May is set to lay off as many as 28 secretaries in a rare redundancy round at the magic circle firm. Slaughters this morning confirmed the redundancies of up to 28 full-time equivalent secretaries out of 165 currently employed at the firm's City base.

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  • October 2, 2012 |

    CC, Mishcons and BBC up for prizes at 2012 British Legal Awards

    Clifford Chance (CC), Mishcon de Reya and Latham & Watkins are among the leading law firms in contention for this year's British Legal Awards. Shortlists unveiled today (2 October) reveal that the trio will go up against Berwin Leighton Paisner, Olswang and Travers Smith for the flagship Law Firm of the Year award, while the BBC, Everything Everywhere, Marks & Spencer and Nationwide are shortlisted for Legal Department of the Year.

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  • September 27, 2012 |

    Top 20 sees over 400 partners leave LLPs in stormy markets

    The UK's top 20 law firms saw 439 partners exit their main limited liability partnerships (LLPs) in 2011-12, as firms continue to actively manage their partnerships.

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  • September 25, 2012 |

    Slaughters mulls adding US-qualified partners in Asia

    Slaughter and May is mulling adding US law capability to its Hong Kong office, after a spate of US firms launched local practices in the region. The magic circle firm is considering whether to hire US-qualified lawyers for its Asia base - a move which would involve lateral partner hires and would represent a break from the firm's traditional strategy of organic growth.

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  • September 25, 2012 |

    Macfarlanes leads as mining giant Bumi launches internal investigation

    Macfarlanes has been drafted in to advise mining giant Bumi on an investigation into alleged financial irregularities in its Indonesian operations. The City firm is understood to have been instructed by the company yesterday (24 September), when Bumi announced the internal investigation into its Indonesian subsidiary PT Bumi Resources, in which it has a 29% stake.

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