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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Blag your way through interview: Commercially conscious

    'Commercial awareness' is something that all of the top firms cite as key recruitment criteria - so if you are beginning to worry that you are not fully au fait with current goings-on in the legal market, Legal Week Student presents a crash course in this year's burning issues

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    A&O tops market but avoids all-out pay war

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has resisted a wholesale hike in associate salaries, effectively ending the prospect of a salary war at the top of the City's legal market.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Slaughters partner track shortest of City top 10

    Slaughter and May has the fastest partnership track of the top 10 City firms with associates taking an average of seven years to make partner.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Commentary: Who needs M&A? Ashurst carves out a new niche

    Are investment banks really that bothered about M&A? It is a question that Ashurst, of all firms, has been asking itself of late, thanks to feedback from institutional clients.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    DAC joins Herbies on £75m leisure complex sale

    Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) has advised Land Securities alongside Herbert Smith on its £76.5m sale of The Gate leisure complex in Newcastle to PropInvest.

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  • April 24, 2007 |

    Ashurst Germany takes on Siemens' Englisch

    Ashurst has strengthened its German corporate practice with the hire of senior Siemens in-house lawyer Lutz Englisch as a partner. Englisch, who joins the firm's Munich office on 1 May, spent more than 15 years with the German tech giant, where he headed the corporate legal team.

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  • April 24, 2007 | International Edition

    SJs promotes record 16 as Dentons adds a dozen

    SJ Berwin has become the latest firm to announce a bumper crop of new partners, with the top 20 firm making up 16 new partners effective from 1 May. The City firm is making up its largest number of new partners to date, with nine of the promotions coming in London. Germany dominates the promotions on the Continent, with four lawyers being made up, while there are two new partners in Spain and one in Paris. The promotions mark an increase on last year, when SJ Berwin make up 13 new partners, eight of whom were in London.

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  • April 24, 2007 |

    SJs promotes record 16 as Dentons adds a dozen

    SJ Berwin has become the latest firm to announce a bumper crop of new partners, with the top 20 firm making up 16 new partners effective from 1 May. The City firm is making up its largest number of new partners to date, with nine of the promotions coming in London. Germany dominates the promotions on the Continent, with four lawyers being made up, while there are two new partners in Spain and one in Paris. The promotions mark an increase on last year, when SJ Berwin make up 13 new partners, eight of whom were in London.

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  • April 24, 2007 |

    No big pay hike expected after A&O announces salary increase

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has raised its salary rates in a move that is thought to take the firm above its magic circle rivals but falls short of a predicted pay surge. The firm announced today (24 April) that its associate salaries have risen by an average of 18% since last October, but refused to give exact figures until it has consulted with associates individually later this week.

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  • April 20, 2007 |

    2007 pay round: a Legal Week Wiki special

    As more City firms show their hands in the salary stakes, the Legal Week Wiki brings you the chance to post your views, pass on the latest gossip and help fill out our salary table.

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