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  • April 23, 2008 |

    Dealmaker: Frances Murphy

    Slaughter and May's new head of corporate Frances Murphy on eureka moments, clay pigeon shooting and not being fluffy

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  • April 23, 2008 |

    Central and Eastern Europe: Centre of attention

    Law firms that invested in Central and Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain are enjoying the region's enduring economic boom and seeking shelter from the London gloom. Dominic Carman speaks to partners across the region, from Vienna to Kiev

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  • April 23, 2008 |

    Banks for nothing

    The field of legal punditry is growing ever more crowded as hacks vie with consultants to pick over the strategic bones of the new generation of super firms. Take City legend Slaughter and May, which in recent years has had to put up with the indignity of oiks banging on about how its international best-mates strategy can't match up to the McFirms of this world.

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  • April 23, 2008 |

    Trainees: know your place!

    Some regular readers of legalweek.com will be familiar with some of my contributions to Career Clinic.Some of you may think I am blunt and cut-throat and…

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  • April 22, 2008 |

    Freshfields to the fore on Bank of England's £50bn cash injection

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has underlined its close links with the Bank of England after taking lead advisory duties on the bank's £50bn liquidity support programme for the UK lending market. Freshfields is advising the longstanding client on its plan to swap secured Government bonds for premium mortgage debts held by commercial banks in a bid to ease the effects of the global credit crisis.

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  • April 17, 2008 | International Edition

    TMT rivals Bird & Bird and Field Fisher maintain substantial promotions round

    Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week. Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners - doubling its 2007 count - with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    City giants pledge £750k to finance trainee diversity drive

    A clutch of London's leading law firms have committed around three-quarters of a million pounds to an initiative that aims to increase diversity in the legal profession. Thirteen members of the City Solicitors' Educational Trust (CSET) have set aside £250,000 for next year to finance the new project - aimed at encouraging students from a wider range of universities and backgrounds to consider a career in law - with similar totals expected for 2009 and 2010.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    Slaughters makes rare partner secondment to bank

    Slaughter and May has made a rare partner secondment to a client, as the magic circle firm looks to boost its private equity credentials. Tim Pharoah, who sits in Slaughters' general corporate and financing group, is on a long-term secondment to investment bank Morgan Stanley.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    TMT rivals Bird & Bird and Field Fisher maintain substantial promotions round

    Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week. Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners - doubling its 2007 count - with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    BPP hikes fees 10% to £11,500

    BPP Law School - already London's most expensive postgraduate law school - has announced a 10% hike in its fees for the Legal Practice Certificate (LPC) to £11,500. The hike widens the price gap between BPP and City Law School, the next most expensive LPC provider in London, to nearly £1,000. City Law School will charge its full-time students fees of £10,600 for the 2008-09 academic year, after announcing a more modest 1% rise in its own rates.

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