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  • March 24, 2010 |

    Former DLA Piper partner sentenced in Singapore after forgery trial

    A former partner at DLA Piper in Singapore has been sentenced to two months in jail for lying about his annual compensation, reports The Am Law Daily. Rudy Lim, who was based at DLA's Singapore arm for several years, handling project development and finance work, joined US firm Duane Morris in late 2006 in anticipation of the firm opening a Singapore office.

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  • March 24, 2010 |

    The smoking section - British American Tobacco's GC in profile

    During the 1640s, lawyers in Virginia were paid in pounds of tobacco - a way of working that would continue to suit British American Tobacco (BAT) quite nicely, jokes the company's general counsel, Neil Withington. But resigned to the likely failure of resurrecting such a payment method, Withington is instead focusing on the rather more 21st century concept of legal process outsourcing as he bids to keep BAT's external legal spend as tight as possible.

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  • March 22, 2010 |

    Bakers boosts City regulatory team with Barlows partner hire

    Baker & McKenzie has significantly boosted its regulatory capabilities in the City with the hire of highly rated Barlow Lyde & Gilbert partner Ian Mason. Mason, the former head of the FSA's wholesale group in the the body's enforcement division, becomes Bakers' second financial regulatory partner in the City.

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  • March 17, 2010 | International Edition

    Pharmaceuticals: The game changer

    The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rapidly changing market

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  • March 17, 2010 |

    Pharmaceuticals: The game changer

    The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rapidly changing market

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  • March 10, 2010 |

    Diversity dips at US firms as recession hits ethnic minority lawyer headcounts

    The number of ethnic minority lawyers in US firms has fallen for the first time in nine years, with large firms losing 9% of minority lawyers, according to research by Legal Week sister title The American Lawyer. The findings, based on statistics from 202 participating firms including Baker & McKenzie and Latham & Watkins, suggest that minority lawyers were disproportionately affected by job cuts at US firms over the last year.

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  • March 10, 2010 |

    Hanging on the telephone

    Last year was not good for Sony Ericsson. The troubled mobile phone manufacturer found itself recording a $1.1bn (£730m) loss as the recession saw handset sales plummet and competitor products, such as Apple's iPhone, dominate what was left of the market. During the last 18 months the company has cut over 2,000 jobs, including 10 in its legal department. "Although I am very confident about our future, we're very much in protect and survive mode at the moment," admits Sony Ericsson general counsel and company secretary Jonathan Pearl.

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  • February 24, 2010 |

    The outsourcers are coming

    The news that Microsoft is sending out legal work to a team of lawyers at legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider CPA Global in India is the latest indication that one of the most talked-about trends in recent years is no flash in the pan. That the announcement followed the defection earlier this month of former Rio Tinto managing attorney Leah Cooper to a business development role at CPA only adds further credence to the growing acceptance of legal outsourcing - particularly since Cooper herself was the driving force behind an agreement struck between CPA and Rio last June that saw a team of CPA lawyers take on work such as document review and legal research for the mining giant.

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  • February 23, 2010 |

    A&O takes lead role for Vietnam Government on $1bn bond offering

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised the Vietnamese Government on a $1bn (£648m) sovereign bond offering. The deal also handed a role to Wall Street's David Polk & Wardwell as lead international adviser to the underwriting banks.

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  • February 19, 2010 |

    Shearman and Linklaters strike gold on billion-dollar mining IPO

    Shearman & Sterling and Linklaters have taken lead roles on Barrick Gold's spin-off of its African mining assets and subsequent listing on the London Stock Exchange. Canada's Barrick, the largest gold miner in the world, will list its Tanzanian mining assets as African Black Gold (ABG) with a pricing set to take place in the next fortnight.

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