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  • May 29, 2008 |

    Planning lawyers face uncertainty as Johnson reviews tower schemes

    City planning lawyers are gearing up for a period of uncertainty and delay in the wake of Boris Johnson's election as London Mayor. Numerous projects across the City are on hold pending reviews to be carried out by Johnson and his new planning team, headed up by Sir Simon Milton - who is an outspoken critic of tall buildings being built in London.

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  • May 28, 2008 |

    Ashurst adds fourth partner to Frankfurt

    Ashurst has bagged White & Case leveraged finance partner Anne Force for its loan markets group in Frankfurt. She becomes the fourth addition to Ashurst's Frankfurt partnership this year, with the firm hiring Hengeler Mueller corporate lawyer Claudia Junker as a partner in January and making two internal promotions in the office last month. Force was previously an in-house counsel at German giant Deutsche Bank.

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  • May 28, 2008 |

    Pinsents boost funds arm with Ashurst hire

    Pinsent Masons has boosted its funds practice with the hire of an Ashurst senior associate as a partner. Ian Warner focuses on forming investment funds and advising clients on private equity and investment fund issues. Pinsents corporate head Gareth Edwards said: "Ian's arrival will help us to consolidate our funds work and build upon it to create a substantial practice, which will be an important asset for the corporate group and the firm's offering as a whole."

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  • May 28, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 28/05/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts.

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  • May 27, 2008 |

    Ashurst pay review sees NQ rates rise 1.5%

    Ashurst's newly-qualified lawyers are set to take home £65,000 after a salary review at the firm sees pay increased by around 1.5%. The City firm has raised its newly qualified salaries by £1,000 from last year's figure of £64,000, making it the latest firm to announce below-inflationary rises.

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  • May 22, 2008 |

    Countdown to this year's Global 100: the UK members

    Later this year Legal Week and The American Lawyer will be joining forces to produce the Global 100 the definitive ranking and analysis of the world’s…

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  • May 22, 2008 |

    Editor's Comment: Naked partnership

    There is a theory in scientific circles that the act of observing something will alter the subject. You can see the logic with the UK legal profession, which has gone through radical changes at the same time as it has become used to unprecedented transparency. There is no doubt that the publication and benchmarking of revenue and partner profit figures made these targets more central to law firm thinking. On that basis, the question becomes whether a more rigorous analysis of partnership will do to the demographics of law firms what the reporting of financial results did to the economics of partnership.

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  • May 22, 2008 |

    Partnership round reveals gender equality gap

    Female associates continue to lag far behind their male counterparts when it comes to partnership prospects, with women representing less than a third of this year's new partner promotions. Only 27% of the total number of new partner promotions across the top 50 were female this year - amounting to 161 new female partners compared to 424 male partners. On average women made up only 29% of each firm's new partner promotions, with this figure falling further still at a number of firms.

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  • May 22, 2008 |

    SJB eyes Moscow as strong Russian economy attracts Western players

    SJ Berwin is considering launching in Moscow, as growing numbers of international law firms seek to bolster their presence in Russia's oil-driven economy. The top 20 UK firm is currently assessing plans overseen by Russian practice group head, David Goldberg, to launch a local practice - which would mark SJ Berwin's first office outside continental Europe and its sixth outside London.

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  • May 21, 2008 |

    Dealmaker: Mark Elsey

    Ashurst infra guru Mark Elsey on public transport, Geoffrey Green's powers of persuasion and making it up in Portugal

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