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  • May 17, 2007 |

    Top firms to cash in as L-Cat ups spend again

    Government spending through its much-vaunted L-Cat super-panel has increased for the fourth year running as Whitehall presses on with a drive to centralise its legal procurement. Provisional figures obtained by Legal Week from the Office for Government Commerce (OGC) show £14.5m in fees has been paid out to the 33-firm panel during the last 12 months - a rise of 10% on £13.3m last year. The increase is a more modest result than the previous year, which saw annual spending rocket by 100%.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Nabarro raids rivals for latest round of lateral partner hires

    Nabarro has announced a trio of partner hires including Allen & Overy (A&O) corporate partner Patrick Speller and Osborne Clarke (OC) co-head of planning Wesley Fongenie.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Three more City firms bulk up NQ salaries to match rivals

    Lovells, Simmons & Simmons and Nabarro are the latest firms to increase newly-qualified salaries to meet the new City benchmark. The increases, effective from 1 May, take Lovells' and Simmons' newly-qualified salaries from £55,000 to £63,500 - joining Clifford Chance, Slaughter and May and Norton Rose at that rate. Nabarro has increased its newly-qualifed rate to around £62,500.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    CC transfers Hunter to Middle East as battleground steps up

    Clifford Chance (CC) is to transfer corporate partner Iain Hunter to its Dubai arm in a bid to win investment mandates from the region as the Middle East fast becomes a key battleground for the City elite.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Be alarmed. Be very, very alarmed

    Mobile phone company and sometime law firm LG was last week packing paralegals into cardboard boxes and filling partners with styrofoam before its big office move to swanky new premises in More London, where 'elite' City rival Norton Rose will shortly follow. However, both firms should remember that old maxim about the best laid (floor) plans going awry.

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  • May 14, 2007 | International Edition

    Lovells hikes NQ pay to £63,500 to match CC

    Lovells has become the latest City firm to up its associate salaries, with the top 10 UK outfit boosting its rate for newly-qualified lawyers by 15% to £63,500. The hike is Lovells' second pay-rise for newly-qualified lawyers in the last year, having raised salaries from last May's £53,000 to a new mark of £55,000 in November.

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  • May 14, 2007 |

    Lovells hikes NQ pay to £63,500 to match CC

    Lovells has become the latest City firm to up its associate salaries, with the top 10 UK outfit boosting its rate for newly-qualified lawyers by 15% to £63,500. The hike is Lovells' second pay-rise for newly-qualified lawyers in the last year, having raised salaries from last May's £53,000 to a new mark of £55,000 in November.

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  • May 11, 2007 |

    A&O secures Riyadh launch with local tie-up

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has launched an office in Riyadh, the City giant announced today (11 May), after agreeing a tie-up with local practice Abdulaziz Al Gasim Law Firm. The launch is being spearheaded by A&O partner Julian Johansen, who joined the magic circle firm in January from Dubai Investment Group, where he was general counsel.

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  • May 11, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 11/5/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; plus the best of the blogs, readers' comments and A&O litigation head Andrew Clark on lookalike nuns.

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  • May 10, 2007 |

    Another side of... Andrew Clark

    Allen & Overy litigation chief Andrew Clark on lookalike nuns and a Saturday afternoon spent in Hatfield Galleria.

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