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  • July 2, 2008 |

    Ward Hadaway's animal magic

    "Big, powerful and intelligent... we must mean business," reads the spiel on the website for top four Newcastle firm Ward Hadaway, accompanied by a (presumably Photoshopped) picture of a gorilla in a pinstripe suit. Either that or the PG Tips chimps have been to acting classes.With law firms certainly not averse to 'borrowing' good ideas from rivals - we should launch in Milan, we need to merge, we should sack everyone over 40 - it's only a matter of time before more firms start defining themselves in terms of the animal kingdom. How about:

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  • July 1, 2008 |

    Travers partnership votes in LLP conversion

    City firm Travers Smith has become the latest firm to convert to a limited liability partnership (LLP). The conversion takes effect from today (July 1) and will apply to the firm's office in London. The practice's Paris office will become an AARPI, the French equivalent of an LLP.The move follows a partnership vote in May. The LLP will apply to both equity and non-equity partners.

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  • June 29, 2008 |

    CIS - staying independent, going international

    Today's first panel discussion of the CIS Local Counsel Forum featured a Who's Who of the independent Russian legal market, which now includes 16,500 firms…

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  • June 26, 2008 | International Edition

    Slaughters revamps compliance function with new team launch

    Slaughter and May has overhauled its compliance function, creating a new team under the remit of executive partner Graham White. The magic circle law firm has put the group in place to oversee issues such as conflicts and meeting Law Society regulations. The compliance team will be headed by support lawyer Sarah de Gay, who previously led the charge on much of Slaughters' conflicts policy.

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  • June 26, 2008 |

    Slaughters revamps compliance function with new team launch

    Slaughter and May has overhauled its compliance function, creating a new team under the remit of executive partner Graham White. The magic circle law firm has put the group in place to oversee issues such as conflicts and meeting Law Society regulations. The compliance team will be headed by support lawyer Sarah de Gay, who previously led the charge on much of Slaughters' conflicts policy.

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  • June 25, 2008 |

    Dealmaker: Ian Hamilton

    Weil Gotshal M&A partner Ian Hamilton on a memorable worst day on the job and being the butt of Cooke and Compagnoni's jokes

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  • June 25, 2008 |

    Italy: All Gianni's boys

    Last year's high-profile Gianni exodus underlined the mounting tension between Italy's select band of elder rainmakers and the new generation of talent. Dominic Carman reports on the battle of ideas raging within the profession "I do not think there is room in the Italian market for new independent, full-service law firms - there is a sufficient number already." When Francesco Gianni said this 18 months ago, he was at pains to add: "If you change your partnership agreement to reduce competition between partners in terms of profits, you create a more stable firm."

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  • June 25, 2008 |

    ITV's got talent

    ITV's group legal director and general counsel, Andrew Garard, and his team are hoping to do something that no FTSE 100 in-house team has done before - pull the plug on the chargeable hour entirely.Since taking the legal helm of the broadcasting

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  • June 25, 2008 |

    Run, fat boys, run

    Further proof that lawyers have little or nothing to do as a cataclysmic economic meltdown fast approaches (yeah, right), comes with the latest annual Great City Run (pictured above, from last year), sponsored by Standard Chartered, which this year takes place on 17 July.

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  • June 20, 2008 |

    Unilever GC takes up Whitbread non-exec role

    Unilever general counsel and chief legal officer Stephen Williams has taken up a non-executive director role with Whitbread. Williams has already taken up the position with the restaurant and hotel company and will remain in his role as legal chief with Unilever on a full-time basis.

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