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  • April 22, 2008 |

    Shearman parts with 30-lawyer Mannheim arm

    Shearman & Sterling has parted company with its Mannheim office, which has broken away to launch its own firm. The break-off of the Mannheim office was announced to partners in an internal email today (22 April), with Shearman set to lose around 30 lawyers, including nine partners.

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  • April 21, 2008 |

    A&O's RIM costs, part II - the Cadillac defence

    Finally, some good news for Allen & Overy’s (A&O’s) litigation team. While they have been branded over-priced in the UK, A&O could…

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  • April 21, 2008 |

    Lucky seven in London as Links makes up 28

    Linklaters has made up 28 lawyers to its global partnership, including seven at the firm's City headquarters. The majority of the promotions are spread across the firm's international network, with four new partners coming in Paris, three in Frankfurt, two in Moscow and one apiece in Munich and Madrid.

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  • April 21, 2008 |

    Norton Rose signs up Singapore corporate man

    Norton Rose has hire a new corporate partner for its Singapore office. Adam Summerly joins the City giant from the local arm of US firm Duane Morris, where he was also a partner. Summerly specialises in sectors including telecommunications and oil and gas, having focused on cross-border work in markets including Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

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  • April 18, 2008 |

    Judge rails at A&O's £5m bill on patent case

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has been criticised by a High Court judge after the firm was deemed to have generated excessive costs in a five-day trial over BlackBerry patents. A&O notched up fees totalling £5.18m representing Research in Motion (RIM) in its patent dispute with US technology company Visto, represented by Taylor Wessing.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    City giants pledge £750k to finance trainee diversity drive

    A clutch of London's leading law firms have committed around three-quarters of a million pounds to an initiative that aims to increase diversity in the legal profession. Thirteen members of the City Solicitors' Educational Trust (CSET) have set aside £250,000 for next year to finance the new project - aimed at encouraging students from a wider range of universities and backgrounds to consider a career in law - with similar totals expected for 2009 and 2010.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    A&O's RIM costs – the bottom line is still the bottom line

    It has been a long time since a major UK law firm was on the receiving end of the kind of drubbing that Mr Justice Floyd yesterday (17 April) visited on…

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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 | International Edition

    Camerons recruits ex-Dechert telecoms partner for TMT push

    CMS Cameron McKenna has hired former Dechert competition partner Chris Watson. Watson is set to join Camerons as a partner in its telecoms, media and technology (TMT) group, having left the US firm at the end of February after just two years. The hire will take Camerons' TMT practice to 12 partners in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe.

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  • April 17, 2008 |

    Camerons recruits ex-Dechert telecoms partner for TMT push

    CMS Cameron McKenna has hired former Dechert competition partner Chris Watson. Watson is set to join Camerons as a partner in its telecoms, media and technology (TMT) group, having left the US firm at the end of February after just two years. The hire will take Camerons' TMT practice to 12 partners in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe.

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