• 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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  • September 27, 2000 |

    A fine balancing act

    There has been a long-documented trend for English-qualified lawyers to move to US firms' London offices to boost their careers, but as Linda Tsang reports, the US firms have a mixed track record in managing to hold on to their new stars

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  • September 27, 2000 |

    Freshfields scoops £4.5bn merger

    Law firm benefits from A&O conflict to land engineering deal, but rival will still play a key role

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  • September 27, 2000 |

    A&O gets radical over know-how

    Legal Week Reports

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  • September 27, 2000 |

    Irwin Mitchell pioneers voice recognition tool

    Sheffield firm rolls out software to 100 fee earners; number of personal secretaries cut

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  • September 27, 2000 |

    'Gung-ho' Jones Day hires five partners

    Legal Week Reports

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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 26, 2000 |

    Knowledge management:Dispelling the myths

    David Knight talks to Philip Wood of Allen & Overy and gets to the truth about knowledge management in one of the world's most profitable firms

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  • September 26, 2000 |

    HotDocs goes online

    LEGAL IT REPORTS

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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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