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  • February 17, 2010 |

    Editor's comment: Passage to India

    When a law firm does it, heads are turned - but when a company does it, people really sit up and take notice. Microsoft's decision to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Rio Tinto by outsourcing a chunk of its in-house legal work to CPA Global's offshore operation in Delhi has added further momentum to one of the most talked-about trends of the last few years. The additional news that Rio Tinto's managing attorney Leah Cooper, the driving force behind the mining giant's offshore move, is to join CPA, makes it a pretty good news week for the outsourcing leader.

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  • February 17, 2010 |

    Russia and Ukraine: Standing their ground

    The ongoing turf war between Russia's independent and foreign law firms moved up a gear in 2009. Local lawyers, long resigned to sharing their market with the crowd of international firms that began arriving in droves at the end of the Soviet era, regained a little of that lost ground thanks to the economic downturn.

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  • February 8, 2010 |

    Unilever names former Linklaters lawyer as new legal chief

    Unilever has appointed Tonia Lovell as its new chief legal officer and group secretary, replacing longstanding legal head Steve Williams. Williams will step down at the end of the year after 24 years at the company in a variety of roles.

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  • February 8, 2010 |

    A&O set to launch in Australia with partner hires: comment and reaction

    Allen & Overy (A&O) is set to enter Australia after hiring 17 new partners to open new offices in Sydney and Perth. Fourteen of the partners join from Australian firm Clayton Utz, which announced today (8 February) that the partners had tendered their resignation with the intention of joining the magic circle firm.

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  • January 27, 2010 |

    Dealmaker: Chris Bown

    Freshfields' private equity veteran displays a touch of literary class (and aces the McBeal question)...

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  • January 26, 2010 |

    Bakers appoints global head of BD and marketing with CC hire

    Baker & McKenzie has appointed its first-ever global head of business development and marketing. The firm has recruited Laurie Robertson from Clifford Chance, where he has spent the last 10 years, most recently in the role of global head of business development, which he has held since 2007.

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  • January 19, 2010 |

    Testing the waters

    Two years into the financial crisis, Am Law 200 firms continue to grapple with their response to the new reality: that's the main theme from The American Lawyer's annual Law Firm Leaders survey, which shows an increased willingness among firms to implement a smorgasbord of short-term cost-cutting measures while pondering more fundamental changes.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Tax evasion in spotlight in post-crunch crackdown

    With all the talk of the bank bonus tax, global financial institutions' reassessment of their commitment to London and UK politicians other than Boris Johnson queuing up to bash the City, you might question what place London will have in the financial new world order in 2010. But before you pack your skis and head to Switzerland, the changes since the London G20 Summit and the unstoppable move towards global transparency should make you think again.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: All tied up

    The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Baker & McKenzie

    The original international law firm, Bakers' City office is in fact its largest.

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