• October 11, 2000 |

    Sports Diary

    Legal Week Reports

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  • October 11, 2000 |

    Foreign firms steal march on locals

    Clifford Chance is top foreign firm, but one-partner practice beats it into second place

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  • October 11, 2000 |

    Brave new world - or old school tie?

    Most of the big firms and chambers recruit from Oxbridge and select 'red brick' university law departments. But new skills and a different type of person are needed for the lawyers of tomorrow, argues Derek Bedlow

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  • October 6, 2000 |

    Uria is Slaughters' latest 'best friend'

    International strategy

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  • October 6, 2000 |

    Regus float halted, to Slaughters' dismay

    The IPO market has been up and down, with the delay of the Regus flotation and success of Oneview.net

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  • October 4, 2000 |

    Banking on success

    The takeover of NatWest by the Royal Bank of Scotland brought about a major restructuring of the legal team. Mary Mullally talks to the combined bank's new head of legal about the difficulties he faced integrating two quite different cultures

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  • October 4, 2000 |

    Beery scoops top job as drugs giant announces key positions

    Legal Week Report

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  • September 27, 2000 |

    Remember: employees are only human too

    Law firms too often believe that a high salary automatically equals high satisfaction for employees. But Malcolm Finney says partners need to familiarise themselves with basic management theory relating to human behaviour

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  • September 20, 2000 |

    Slaughters faces loss of major banking client with Chase move

    Sector consolidation unsettles law firms; Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy likely to be biggest winners

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  • September 20, 2000 |

    The velvet revolution

    The language of war that has traditionally dominated the debate about solicitor-advocates may have ceased, but, writes Philip Hoult, the revolution looks like it is just about to begin

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