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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Olswang keeps finger on tech pulse with dedicated open source division

    Olswang has launched a new unit dedicated to advising on open source technology, as the law firm aims to cash in on the software's increased use in the UK.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Kirkpatrick bolsters City with Herbies hire

    Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis has boosted its environmental practice with the hire of a consultant from Herbert Smith.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    SJ Berwin lands £500m M&S mandate

    SJ Berwin has landed one of its biggest instructions from Marks & Spencer (M&S) as the department store signs up to Portsmouth's £500m new shopping centre.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Slaughters sets the Standard with banking mandate double

    Slaughter and May has cemented its ties with longstanding client Standard Chartered Bank, advising on the issue of a $15bn (£7.45bn) debt issuance prospectus and its $860m (£427m) acquisition of American Express Bank.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Homeland security

    The Diary was recently dispatched on a covert operation to take some snaps for the Legal Week photo library. Covert, because the ultra-sensitivity of some City firms to having their picture taken reminds one of those tribes that believe taking a photograph of someone steals their soul. Not that that would be much of a problem for City lawyers.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 26/9/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Hammonds, Clifford Chance and Travers Smith among the movers and shakers

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  • September 24, 2007 | International Edition

    BPP handed degree-giving breakthrough

    BPP Law School has been granted degree-awarding status in a move that makes the group the UK's first private-sector company able to award the qualification. The school, together with BPP Business School, was awarded the powers by the Privy Council after an 18-month review by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.

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  • September 24, 2007 |

    BPP handed degree-giving breakthrough

    BPP Law School has been granted degree-awarding status in a move that makes the group the UK's first private-sector company able to award the qualification. The school, together with BPP Business School, was awarded the powers by the Privy Council after an 18-month review by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    Martin loses out on Thomson-Reuters top GC role

    Lauded Reuters general counsel Rosemary Martin has been overlooked for the top post-merger legal job at Thomson-Reuters in favour of Thomson's legal director, Deirdre Stanley.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    Olswang checks out £562m hotel sell-off

    Olswang has landed a role opposite Slaughter and May on the £562m sell-off of Dawnay Shore Hotels' (DSH's) portfolio to Spanish operator Barcelo.

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