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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 26, 2007 |

    LPC update: Decisions, decisions

    Choosing an LPC just got harder. Derek Bedlow reports on the fast-changing legal education debate

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    What to expect: Great Expectations

    Talking to graduate recruiters at law firms provides a fresh perspective for the student applying for training contracts. Lauren Milner advises graduates not to jump headlong into a famously stressful profession unless you are sure

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Solicitors: Generation game

    Career flexibility, work-life balance and a lively social scene are all key issues for firms aiming to make an impression on the current generation of students, as Derek Bedlow reports

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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 |

    Travers reaps rewards of 3i links with deal windfall

    Travers Smith's longstanding ties with 3i are paying dividends as the City firm landed the pole advisory position on the majority of the buy-out house's transactions in the past year, according to new research.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Simmons bags second lucrative deal for Telefonica in £2bn Airwave 02

    Simmons & Simmons has secured its second major instruction for Telefonica, advising the Spanish telecoms giant on its £2bn sale of emergency services network Airwave to Guardian Digital Communications.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    A&O's Paris branch gets environmental boost

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its public and environmental law offering in Paris with the hire of Jean-Yves Ollier from Weil Gotshal & Manges. Ollier was previously counsel in Weil Gotshal's Paris corporate department. He was formerly a junior judge and subsequently deputy secretary general at the Conseil d'Etat, France's Supreme Court for public law cases.

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  • April 24, 2007 |

    Alliance Boots is a breakthrough for private equity (and CC)

    The symbolism of the first-ever buy-out of a FTSE 100 company is not lost on private equity lawyers. They have been talking about such an event occurring…

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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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