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  • March 2, 2007 |

    BPP and College of Law to fight for City LPC deal

    BPP Law School is set to battle it out against the College of Law to keep the five-firm City Legal Practice Course (LPC) consortium as a client. The consortium has asked current provider BPP as well as the College, the Inns of Court School of Law and Nottingham at Kaplan this week to present their ideas for a revamped LPC.

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  • March 1, 2007 |

    An unsentimental education

    Several years back, College of Law chief executive Nigel Savage must have been tempted to give up.The College was doing OK but pesky law school upstarts…

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: Stressing the point

    Partners have a responsibility to ease the pressure on juniors The death of the young Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer lawyer Matthew Courtney has sparked an intense debate, not least in a succession of postings on legalweek.com, about the levels of stress business lawyers are experiencing.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Norton Rose beats Ashurst to head Hemscott corporate adviser league

    Norton Rose has topped rankings of corporate advisers, taking over from Ashurst as the firm with the most quoted UK clients. Hemscott's quarterly corporate adviser rankings show Norton Rose in pole position with 120 stock market clients, Slaughter and May in second with 113 quoted clients, Ashurst and Eversheds in equal third place with 110 clients and Pinsent Masons in fifth place with 97 clients.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    One in three City partners concede stress-related illness has hit their firm

    Senior City lawyers say assistants are not overworked, but concede that the modern profession has upped the stress levels for the current generation of junior lawyers. Caroline Grimshaw reports on the latest Big Question survey A third of the UK's top partners know of lawyers at their firm who have been off work due to stress in the past year, it has emerged, as the debate surrounding working conditions at major law firms continues.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Corporate Counsel: Local bank, local lawyers

    HSBC law chief Richard Bennett explains why his team thinks local and avoids empire-building. Michelle Madsen reports Soaring up over Docklands and boasting one of the best views in London, HSBC's glittering City headquarters are not what you would immediately imagine when thinking of your local bank.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Heller helps itself to Wilmer Cutler City duo

    Heller Ehrman has strengthened its fledgling London office after a second raid in as many months on US rival Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Tax partner Christopher Prout and corporate associate Scott Leonard-Morgan both join the West Coast tech leader as partners from Wilmer Cutler's City arm, along with three corporate associates.

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  • February 26, 2007 |

    German energy giant unveils first post-merger panel

    Corporate heavyweights Linklaters, Hengeler Mueller and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have bagged roles alongside DLA Piper on the first formal panel set up by energy giant Linde. The formation of the panel, announced today (26 February), sees DLA Piper handed responsibility for advising the company on the majority of its day-to-day legal matters.

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  • February 22, 2007 |

    A reader query about trainees

    One legalweek.com reader this week posted a comment querying the veracity of a recent story regarding the retention rate of trainees.The piece in question…

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  • February 21, 2007 |

    War for talent pushes retention rates past 90%

    The UK's top firms are keeping a tight grip on their trainees, with most City firms set to retain more than 90% of their intake during the next month as the battle for talent rages on. Major UK firms including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith, Lovells and Ashurst are taking on at least 90% of their trainees in the coming intake in March.

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