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  • May 12, 2009 |

    That was then, this is now

    Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst and Addleshaw Goddard recently topped a table of graduate employers in a major survey of law students' views on which firms are the best to work for. They may be household brands these days - well, for houses containing lawyers and law students - but it wasn't always this way.

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  • May 8, 2009 |

    Linklaters appoints head of corporate in Paris

    Linklaters has named a new Paris head of corporate, with Fabrice de La Morandiere taking over from Marc Loy. Loy, who has headed Linklaters' 55-lawyer corporate team in the French capital for four years, had reached the end of his term.The group, which has 12 partners, is the largest practice group in the Paris office, which has around 180 lawyers in total.

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  • May 7, 2009 |

    12 partners at top of Ashurst ladder after review

    Ashurst partners have learned their new positions in the firm's lockstep, with 12 partners now sitting in the firm's top band. Partners discovered their new positions on the 25-65 point scale last month, following an annual review process that has seen two additional partners' join the top rung of Ashurst's lockstep.

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  • May 6, 2009 |

    Management: Greasing the training wheels

    In response to constrained budgets for 2009-10, most learning and development teams have focused on real and immediate needs and driving down costs. This has most commonly meant that career-critical training programmes have remained sacrosanct, attendances at external conferences require strong justification and the use of external training providers has been significantly curtailed.

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  • April 30, 2009 |

    Nomura cuts 12 legal staff in London restructuring

    Japanese banking giant Nomura has cut up to 12 legal positions in London as the bank nears the end of restructuring its in-house team in the wake of its takeover of Lehman Brother's European and Middle East equities and investment banking operations. The cuts were made at the beginning of this month, with lawyers from legacy teams at both Lehman and Nomura affected.

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  • April 29, 2009 |

    Dealmaker: Tom Whelan

    Lovells rising star Tom Whelan on the highs and lows of City life and ballroom dancing for charidee

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  • April 29, 2009 |

    Partners confident of improving business nous

    City lawyers' commercial awareness has come along in leaps and bounds in recent years, according to a survey of senior partners, with three out of four respondents rating the profession's business nous as 'good' or 'excellent'.The latest Legal Week Big Question poll found 54% of respondents rated partners' commercial awareness at top 50 UK law firms as 'good', while 21% had it down as 'excellent'. A further 20% rated partners as 'OK' while only 5% viewed commercial knowledge as 'poor'.

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  • April 27, 2009 |

    Beachcroft boosts disputes in promotions round

    Beachcroft has made up nine new partners in its 2009 promotion round, with the firm's dispute resolution group gaining the lion's share.Five lawyers have been made up in the Bristol heavyweight's dispute resolution group, with the firm's commercial group gaining two new partners and employment and corporate one apiece. Geographically, Leeds gained the most promotions with four new partners, while Bristol and London gained two partners each, with Manchester picking up one.

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  • April 24, 2009 |

    Hammonds makes up six to firm's partnership

    Hammonds has promoted six lawyers to the partnership in its latest promotion round, the firm announced today (24 April). The appointments see the firm's London and Manchester offices gaining two partners each, while Brussels and Birmingham will gain one partner apiece from 1 May. Four of the six new partners were trainees with Hammonds.The promotion round represents a significant drop on last year, when Hammonds made up 19 new partners.

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  • April 24, 2009 |

    Carphone Warehouse turns to OC on business split

    Osborne Clarke is understood to be advising longstanding client Carphone Warehouse on the company's plans to separate its mobile phone business from its fixed line and broadband operations.The UK's largest mobile retailer confirmed earlier this week that it is to split its telecoms business, TalkTalk, and its retail business into two separate listed companies, both of which could enter the FTSE 250.

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