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  • January 21, 2010 |

    Now for the hard work - the challenges ahead for Hogan Lovells

    If the outlook of any major strategic move can be gauged from the general reaction of rivals, the prospects for the impending union between Lovells and Hogan & Hartson could not look brighter. For while the cynical City legal community typically pours buckets of derision and faint praise over major moves by rivals, the upcoming merger has won a remarkable degree of support from observers.

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  • January 14, 2010 |

    Ashurst litigation partner steps down from top-level management board

    Ashurst litigation partner Ed Sparrow has stepped down from the management board after a top-level shake-up at the firm. Corporate partner Anthony Clare has been elected to the board for the first time, starting his three-year term from the beginning of 2010, while energy, transport and infrastructure partner Logan Mair has been re-elected.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Paved with good intentions

    With the new year comes new resolve. Some of the City's finest give their self-improvement goals...

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Latham makes rare City lateral with Ashurst private equity hire

    Latham & Watkins has made its first lateral partner hire in London since October 2008, with the US firm bringing in private equity partner Graeme Ward from Ashurst. Ward is set to join Latham's City corporate practice over the coming weeks. He will become the seventh private equity partner in London, working as part of a team led by partner Nigel Campion-Smith.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Ashurst invests in Singapore corporate with hire of ex-A&O partner McGuire

    Ashurst is to strengthen its Singapore corporate practice with the hire of a former partner from Allen & Overy's (A&O) London office. City-based corporate partner Keith McGuire joined Ashurst's Singapore office on 11 January. The move marks a return to the country for McGuire, who headed A&O's Singapore corporate practice between 1998 and 2005, moving to its City base in January 2006.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Law firm confidence rebounds for 2010

    Senior City lawyers are facing 2010 in a considerably more optimistic mood according to new research, which shows business confidence rising sharply over the last three months. Legal Week's quarterly business confidence survey found that 83% of responding partners expect revenue growth at their own firm over the next 12 months, a result that is up sharply on the last poll in October, when just 58% were expecting growth.

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  • December 21, 2009 | International Edition

    Training and education: Moving on up

    It was inevitable that the recent report put together by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn would find professions such as law and medicine dominated by affluent, privately-educated individuals. While social mobility has been on the political agenda for years, the professions have seen little change, with the majority of the UK's lawyers still coming from a select group of independently-educated pupils who go on to attend Russell Group universities.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: Moving on up

    It was inevitable that the recent report put together by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn would find professions such as law and medicine dominated by affluent, privately-educated individuals. While social mobility has been on the political agenda for years, the professions have seen little change, with the majority of the UK's lawyers still coming from a select group of independently-educated pupils who go on to attend Russell Group universities.

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  • December 17, 2009 |

    India shuts doors on foreign firms after High Court ruling

    One of India's highest courts has banned foreign law firms from all forms of practice in India, a major victory for a trade group of Indian lawyers and a defeat for firms that opened liaison offices in India during a brief window in the 1990s. Representatives of the three firms immediately affected by the ruling - Ashurst, White & Case and Chadbourne & Parke - have confirmed the nature of the decision and said they are reviewing its implications.

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  • December 14, 2009 |

    Ashurst

    Don't mention that much-vaunted private equity practice as these days the City blueblood hates being written off with the buy-out tag. An ambitious finance team has attracted much admiration in recent years, although the European network could do with a brush-up.

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