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  • November 22, 2007 |

    US summer's class of 2007 - partner time, Picasso and cash

    Smaller US firms are continuing to outclass Big Law in the ferocious battle to attract summer associates

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    DLA Piper hits top spot in NLJ league of largest firms in US

    DLA Piper has overtaken Baker & McKenzie as the largest law firm in the US, according to research by Legal Week's US sister title, The National Law Journal (NLJ), which shows the top 250 US law firms have grown headcount by 5.6% in the past year.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    US summer's class of 2007 - partner time, Picasso and cash

    Small is beautiful, at least in the eyes of 2007's summer associates in the US. While respondents to The American Lawyer's Summer Associates Survey liked big firms, they liked life at small to mid-sized firms even better. Students craved juicy assignments, friendly offices and lots of attention; the firms that best satisfied these needs were medium-sized shops with relatively small summer programmes.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Bakers City arm advises on American Standard's Bain bath and kitchen sale

    Six hundred Baker & McKenzie lawyers across more than 40 offices have advised on the $1.745bn (£832m) sale of American Standard's bath and kitchen products business and the wider separation of the company's operations.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Commentary: CC job cuts show finance lawyers must diversify or die

    When it emerged last week that Clifford Chance (CC) had blamed the credit crunch for the firm axing a six-lawyer team from its Manhattan HQ, eyebrows were raised for a number of reasons.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Norton Rose hits Dentons with Bi capture

    Norton Rose has boosted its Islamic finance team with the hire of rated capital markets partner Farmida Bi from City finance rival Denton Wilde Sapte. Bi resigned from the top 20 firm this week (6 November), although her departure date is subject to negotiation and she is likely to be required to serve a period of gardening leave.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    Barclays Wealth banks on Bakers partner Burt

    Barclays Wealth, the offshore and private banking arm of the UK financial services giant, has appointed Baker & McKenzie London private banking partner Jonathan Burt to the newly created non-legal role of senior wealth advisor. Burt leaves Bakers' City office after seven years in the global firm's private banking division, where he advised high-net worth individuals, trustees and private banks on cross-border taxation, the creation and taxation of trusts, investment taxation and multi-jurisdictional estate planning.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    Bakers partner resigns after fraud charges

    An indicted Baker & McKenzie partner has resigned following a request to do so from his firm. Martin Weisberg was indicted last month in the Eastern District of New York on charges that he participated with five other defendants in a stock-fraud scheme that netted two overseas short-sellers $55m (£27m) in illegal profits. He has pleaded not guilty,

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  • October 26, 2007 |

    US Briefing: Sullivan settles with former associate

    Sullivan & Cromwell said on Thursday (25 October) it had reached a settlement with former associate Aaron Charney, who sued the law firm earlier this year for sexual orientation discrimination. The settlement, the terms of which are confidential, brings to a close a dispute that had fascinated the New York legal community over the past several months, both with its allegations concerning partners at one of the city's most prestigious firms and its bizarre twists and turns in the courtroom.

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