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  • October 17, 2007 | International Edition

    College of Law, IBA launch new international law degree

    The College of Law has launched a new international masters degree in law in conjunction with the International Bar Association. The part-time masters course will start in January and is available via online learning to lawyers around the world. Around 30 lawyers are expected to start the course in January, with the College anticipating that the course will take between 18 months and five years to complete.

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    College of Law, IBA launch new international law degree

    The College of Law has launched a new international masters degree in law in conjunction with the International Bar Association. The part-time masters course will start in January and is available via online learning to lawyers around the world. Around 30 lawyers are expected to start the course in January, with the College anticipating that the course will take between 18 months and five years to complete.

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 17/10/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with A&O, Shearman and Platt & Fishwick among the movers and shakers

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  • October 15, 2007 | International Edition

    Cleary's City veteran Curran to call it a day

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's most senior UK partner, Andrew Curran, is to retire at the end of this calendar year. Curran joined Cleary from Lovells as a partner in January 1997 to launch the New York firm's English-law practice. He had spent more than 25 years with Lovells in London, where he qualified into the tax practice.

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  • October 15, 2007 |

    Cleary's City veteran Curran to call it a day

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's most senior UK partner, Andrew Curran, is to retire at the end of this calendar year. Curran joined Cleary from Lovells as a partner in January 1997 to launch the New York firm's English-law practice. He had spent more than 25 years with Lovells in London, where he qualified into the tax practice.

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  • October 15, 2007 |

    Standard Chartered makes in-house training move

    Standard Chartered has launched an in-house training scheme in an effort to attract top talent to the bank's legal team. The bank is set to take on its first trainee in March next year, subject to Law Society approval.

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  • October 15, 2007 | International Edition

    A&O accepts second role on Northern Rock saga

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has taken on a second role in the Northern Rock saga - advising Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group on its proposed bid to take over the beleaguered lender. The magic circle firm, a longstanding panel adviser to Virgin, was recently appointed to advise on the approach by the consortium, which is led by Branson and includes insurance company AIG Financial Products and hedge fund group Toscafund.

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  • October 15, 2007 |

    A&O accepts second role on Northern Rock saga

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has taken on a second role in the Northern Rock saga - advising Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group on its proposed bid to take over the beleaguered lender. The magic circle firm, a longstanding panel adviser to Virgin, was recently appointed to advise on the approach by the consortium, which is led by Branson and includes insurance company AIG Financial Products and hedge fund group Toscafund.

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  • October 12, 2007 |

    Sidley next to gain from Northern Rock's hard place

    Sidley Austin has joined a clutch of major firms to have landed roles on the high-profile Northern Rock saga, with the US giant advising on the beleaguered lender's securitisation portfolios. City-based London securitisation partner Robert Torch is leading the team for Sidley, which has advised Northern Rock on the majority of its major securitisations, including the £20bn Granite Master Trust in 2005.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Banking giant UBS pioneers adviser league table

    Banking giant UBS has launched a radical review of its global legal advisers in an attempt to slash costs and become one of the first top financial institutions to formally grade law firm performance.

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