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  • November 22, 2007 |

    Italian indies: giant killers turned masochists

    Just a few years ago, Italy’s leading law firms looked like the exception to the rule in global legal markets.Where the top US and UK law firms had…

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  • November 22, 2007 |

    Latham taps Bonelli for Italian law launch

    Latham & Watkins has launched an Italian law practice and opened in Rome after hiring a five-partner team from Slaughter and May's Italian ally Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. Bonelli partners Andrea Novarese, Maria Cristina Storchi, Fabio Coppola, Tommaso Amirante and Simone Monesi all join the US firm as partners.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 21/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Herbies, DLA Piper and Hammonds among the movers and shakers

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  • November 20, 2007 | International Edition

    BPP gets full marks in latest LPC assessment

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has awarded BPP Law School top marks for all areas of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in a boost for the private sector education provider. The school's LPC was rated as a "commendable practice" by the SRA's panel of assessors across all six performance criteria: teaching, learning and the curriculum; assessment; students and their support; learning resources; leadership and management; and quality assurance and enhancement.

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  • November 20, 2007 |

    BPP gets full marks in latest LPC assessment

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has awarded BPP Law School top marks for all areas of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in a boost for the private sector education provider. The school's LPC was rated as a "commendable practice" by the SRA's panel of assessors across all six performance criteria: teaching, learning and the curriculum; assessment; students and their support; learning resources; leadership and management; and quality assurance and enhancement.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Slaughters' Boardman wins top role on £67bn mining mega-merger approach

    Slaughter & May corporate heavyweight Nigel Boardman has snared a lead role on BHP Billiton's £67bn bid for Anglo-Australian rival Rio Tinto, which would create the world's biggest mining company.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Linde prepares for second panel review of 2007

    Gas giant Linde is set to overhaul its roster of external counsel for the second time this year following the departure of general counsel Nick Deeming.

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Links in for Rio Tinto on BHP's £67bn mega-bid

    Linklaters has bagged a headline role opposite Slaughter and May advising Rio Tinto on the £67bn takeover bid by rival mining giant BHP Billiton - an approach that looks likely to spark a protracted bidding war. The magic circle giant would not comment on its role but it is understood that London-based corporate partner Richard Godden is playing a key part in the Linklaters team.

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    Tribunal reveals M&S discovered Freshfields conflict in Legal Week

    Marks & Spencer (M&S) only discovered that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer had accepted its ill-fated role to act for Philip Green in 2004 after reading about it in Legal Week, according to official findings from the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) published this week. The report details how M&S was unaware that Freshfields was involved until Legal Week revealed its role for the consortium after the bid was announced in May 2004. M&S subsequently obtained an injunction to prevent Freshfields from acting.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    Tribunal reveals M&S discovered Freshfields conflict in Legal Week

    Marks & Spencer (M&S) only discovered that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer had accepted its ill-fated role to act for Philip Green in 2004 after reading about it in Legal Week, according to official findings from the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) published this week. The report details how M&S was unaware that Freshfields was involved until Legal Week revealed its role for the consortium after the bid was announced in May 2004. M&S subsequently obtained an injunction to prevent Freshfields from acting.

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