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  • April 17, 2008 |

    Editor's Comment: Wanted - high road

    Two of London's most interesting law firms face interesting times. The more obvious manifestation of this is Herbert Smith's decision to appoint its first managing partner since Andrew Congreve to back up David Gold as senior partner.The logic isn't hard to fathom, since Herbert Smith is one of the few major firms to operate without a managing partner. Bringing in the well-regarded corporate partner David Willis, seen as a natural for an implementation brief, has obvious advantages

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    City firms renew lobbying and step up local hiring as Indian Bar reform stalls

    A delegation of City lawyers headed to India this week as partners predict further delays in opening up the legal market to foreign firms while the country prepares for a general election. Talks about liberalising the legal sector are set to take a back seat as the Indian Government looks at prioritising wider issues such as poverty and infrastructure.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    Webb to head up DLA Abu Dhabi team

    DLA Piper is to formally launch in Abu Dhabi later this month, with projects and finance partner Stephen Webb - currently based at the firm's Dubai office - appointed office managing partner. The new office is expected to have around 10 lawyers by the end of the month, including three partners. In addition to focusing on projects work, Webb expects the office to cover corporate and construction work as well as media and film financing issues.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    Budding lawyers give A&O the thumbs up for work experience

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has been voted the UK's most popular firm for students and graduates looking to become a solicitor, according to new research. Sixty-four percent of more than 1,400 students and graduates polled rated A&O as 'excellent' and said that the firm provided the best work experience and internships, in the survey by graduate jobsite targetjobs.co.uk.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    Diary sports special: jogo bonito comes to Legal Week

    Never mind the pulse-quickening Premiership climax or English clubs' magic circle-like hegemony of the Champions League semi-finals - the beautiful game will be at its most dazzling later this month as the sixth annual Legal & Financial Cup, in association with Legal Week, fast approaches. Thirty teams will be taking part (and taking each other apart) in this year's competition, which is held in sunny Lisbon on 18-20 April and is organised for the legal and financial services sectors by London sports agency Top Corner.

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  • April 11, 2008 |

    Litigation misses out as Lovells makes up 18

    Lovells has become the latest major City firm to concentrate its promotions overseas, with just a third of the firm's 18 new partners coming in London - while the firm's key litigation practice misses out completely. Six new partners are made up at the firm's London headquarters, with nine coming across continental offices in Moscow, Duesseldorf, Warsaw, Munich and Madrid. In Asia the firm promoted one new partner apiece in Beijing and Hong Kong, with a single promotion coming in the firm's New York office.

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  • April 8, 2008 |

    Those slightly less short-term partner prospects

    Given the challenges facing the global economy, London’s top firms can’t be accused of panicking, given the robust number of promotions so…

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  • April 7, 2008 |

    Paul Hastings hires City projects partner

    Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has boosted its City projects group with the addition of partner David Manny. Manny joins from the London arm of rival US firm Vinson & Elkins. He specialises in sectors including energy, water and infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on construction work.

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  • April 4, 2008 |

    Nabarro exits Weil Gotshal after two-year stay

    High-profile banking partner Jonathan Nabarro has left Weil Gotshal & Manges after little more than two years with the New York firm, it has emerged. Weil confirmed that Nabarro, who was co-head of the firm's Paris banking practice, left the firm on 31 March. His next move is as yet unconfirmed.

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  • April 4, 2008 |

    Norton Rose seals Bombardier-Metronet deal

    Norton Rose has advised train manufacturer Bombardier on the settlement of a major contracts dispute with London Underground's troubled maintenance and upgrading contractor, Metronet Rail. Under the terms of the agreement, Bombardier will pay £95m to Invensys - the parent of Westinghouse Rail Systems, which had been sub-contracted by Bombardier to supply new signalling for a number of the network's sub-surface lines.

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