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  • May 30, 2001 |

    SPBG signs up US pro bono trio

    Camilla Hardwick reports

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  • May 30, 2001 |

    Winners and losers

    Boosted by their heavyweight connections across the Atlantic, US law firms, such as Weil Gotshal & Manges, are creating a serious presence in London, forcing the City's legal elite to take notice, writes James Baxter

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  • May 24, 2001 |

    The grass is always greener

    With legal directors in the US commanding salaries of more than $1m, the assumption is that all US in-house lawyers are well paid. That, says Larry Smith, is a myth. Not only does their pay lag behind that of private practice lawyers, they are expendable

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  • May 23, 2001 |

    Rock and a hard place

    Saira Zaki finds that Citibank's overhaul of its legal advisers has provided plenty of challenges for City firms - and opportunities for their US rivals

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  • May 23, 2001 |

    Lovells packs up Cinven and CVC

    Legal Week reports

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  • May 20, 2001 |

    Treading on virgin territory

    LEGAL IT REPORTS

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  • May 17, 2001 |

    Freshfields pushed off Citibank panel

    Slaughter and May and Linklaters & Alliance have been appointed as recommended corporate counsel to global banking giant Citibank - while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is unlikely to see "any substantive work again". A senior Citibank lawyer confirmed the appointments and the end of Freshfields role as a primary adviser following the results of the long-awaited review of the banking group's Europe-wide panel.

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  • May 16, 2001 |

    Murray-Jones joins Skadden Arps from Lovells

    In Brief

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  • May 9, 2001 |

    Clifford Chance in office talks with Slaughters

    Legal Week reports

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  • May 9, 2001 |

    Waiting for Theodore Goddard

    James Baxter assesses Salans' chances of bagging a City firm that can afford to be choosy

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