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Duane Morris cuts marketing and BD staff
US law firm Duane Morris has cut around 18% of its marketing and business development staff, making staff reductions that echo moves at other firms in recent months.
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Ashurst recruits Dechert Islamic finance head
Ashurst has bolstered its securities team with the hire of Dechert's Islamic finance head Abradat Kamalpour.
Kamalpour, who has been a partner at Dechert since 2006, will joins Ashurst's London office. Before joining Dechert, he was an associate at Norton Rose.
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Nixon Peabody confirms hire of twelve Taylor Wessing partners
Speculation that the dozen lawyers who resigned from Taylor Wessing's Paris office last week would move to Nixon Peabody has been confirmed.
The 12 non-equity partners at the heart of the dispute between Taylor Wessing's French arm and the US firm handed in their resignation i... Read More
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Duane Morris lays off additional staff
Duane Morris has axed at least 15 more staff members on top of the seven job losses from its marketing department reported on Wednesday (20 August), writes Legal Week sister title The Legal Intelligencer.
The firm put the number at 15 and said almost all of those affecte... Read More
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Heller: Latest firm to delay associate starts
Heller Ehrman has become the latest US firm to push back associate start dates and the firm has also withdrawn from some campuses for its interview process, writes The Recorder.
The start date for new associates has been pushed to 20 January from 13 October with the affected associates -... Read More
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Mayer Brown loses restructuring chief to Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired the co-chair of Mayer Brown's restructuring and bankruptcy practice, Raniero 'Ron' D'Aversa Jr.
D'Aversa - whose book of business is said to exceed $5m (£2.7m) by sources familiar with his work and reputation - will be based out of the N... Read More
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Defections to DLA Piper continue at Thelen
Jeffrey Steiner and seven corporate and finance partners have jumped from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner to DLA Piper, writes the National Law Journal.
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Northwest firm scores Football Association role
Merseyside firm Mace & Jones has been appointed to advise the Football Association (FA) on employment matters
The panel appointment, which follows an extensive bidding process, will see Mace & Jones' five-partner employment team advising the FA until 31 May, 2010. ... Read More
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Martineau boosts uni links with four client wins
Birmingham-based law firm Martineau has scored four new client wins in the last six months, boosting its relationships with university and colleges nationwide.
The firm now counts two of the country's leading universities among its clients - in the shape of Lancaster Universit... Read More
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Jones quits Dentons for new career as pilot
Denton Wilde Sapte's Abu Dhabi office is losing its sole aviation partner with the departure of Owain Jones.
Jones is set to leave Dentons at the beginning of 2009 to pursue a career as a commercial pilot, after 12 years with the top 20 City law firm.
He was seconded to the Abu... Read More
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Eversheds and Dundas land roles in Floors-2-Go acquisition
Eversheds and Dundas & Wilson have scored star roles in the high-profile acquisition of troubled retailer Floors-2-Go from administrators Kroll - a deal set to save more than 200 jobs.
The transaction, which closed earlier this month (15 August), saw Eversheds advise the Hodge brot... Read More
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Heller loses yet another partner in California
Heller Ehrman has lost another high-profile partner in California, with veteran litigator Darryl Snider joining the Los Angeles office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. Snider's practice focuses on complex litigation, with a particular focus on antitrust, securities class actions,... Read More
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Weil Gotshal appoints new Washington head
Weil Gotshal & Manges has named litigation partner Michael Lyle as the new managing partner of its Washington DC office. Lyle will take up the position from David Berz on 1 October. In addition to leading the office he will continue to head the firm's products liability and mass tort litigation... Read More
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Mallesons hires M&A partner from Oz rival
Mallesons Stephen Jaques has boosted its London M&A offering with the hire of Australian rival Minter Ellison's London managing partner, Rob Hanley.
Hanley is set to join Mallesons' London arm next month (15 September), where he will work closely with the firm's global M&... Read More
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NautaDutilh to swap salaried partners for new career track
NautaDutilh has brought in a new associate partner rank as the leading Dutch independent moves to phase out salaried partners.
The first appointments are set to be made over the next few months and, unlike salaried partners - who at Nauta receive a fixed share of the firm's prof... Read More
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Travers partner joins Bridgepoint in GC role switch
Bridgepoint Capital has appointed Travers Smith private equity partner Charlie Barter as its first-ever general counsel.
Barter will officially take up the post in October after spending 23 years at Travers, including five years as the head of the firm's private equity division. As leg... Read More
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Herbert Smith hires Citi banker to strengthen securitisation practice
Herbert Smith has bolstered its securitisation practice with the hire of Citi investment banker Michael Poulton.
Poulton is set to join the top 10 City firm as a partner on 15 September after a three-year stint at Citi, where he was a banker within the Europe, Middle East and Africa se... Read More
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Manches faces £700,000 claim over property deal
West End law firm Manches is facing a negligence claim in excess of £700,000 from a former client over advice it gave on the purchase of a residential property.
The firm's Oxford office has been issued with the claim for losses from the purchase of a million-pound property in Berkshire... Read More
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Field Fisher signs up IT/tech partner from DLA
Field Fisher Waterhouse has boosted its intellectual property (IP) and technology dispute resolution practice with the hire of partner Andrew Dodd from DLA Piper.
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UBS names Swiss Re man as Peter Kurer's successor
Banking giant UBS has appointed Swiss Re's group legal officer, Markus Diethelm, as its new general counsel.
Diethelm will take up the position during the third quarter of 2008, replacing former legal head Peter Kurer. The bank has been searching for Kurer's successor since April this ... Read More
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Regional firms unveil latest rates for NQs
Osborne Clarke (pictured), Cobbetts and Beachcroft have become the latest regional outfits to unveil associate salary rates for the coming year.
Osborne Clarke has raised its newly-qualified (NQ) rates in the City to £63,500 - an increase of just £500 on last year. Lawyers in the Thame... Read More
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ABN Amro loses lawyers after RBS takeover causes shake-up
ABN Amro has lost a number of senior lawyers in its Dutch headquarters as the bank restructures in the wake of its takeover by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
It is understood that seven lawyers have left the bank in recent months, including global general counsel Eva Simon Thomas and co... Read More
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McCartney divorce puts Shackleton in spotlight
Celebrity divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton has been confirmed as the UK's most high-profile solicitor, after dominating press coverage of legal professionals over the last 12 months.
Shackleton, who represented Paul McCartney in his divorce from Heather Mills, has featured in 2... Read More
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DLA boss Knowles set to lead firm until 2012
Nigel Knowles is set to continue in his role at the helm of international heavyweight DLA Piper, Legal Week can reveal, after confirming his intention to stand for re-election.
Knowles, whose current term as chief executive ends in December, is intending to continue his tenure at ... Read More
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Linklaters transfers partner duo to Dubai base
Linklaters' expansion drive in the Middle East is set to continue with the transfer of two London-based partners to the Dubai office.
Banking partner James Martin and capital markets partner Richard O'Callaghan are both making the move following July's appointment of Sarosh Me... Read More
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Whitfield takes SP role in Bevan Brittan shake-up
Bevan Brittan has overhauled its management structure as chief executive Stuart Whitfield (pictured) takes on the newly-created role of senior partner with Andrew Manning stepping up to become CEO.
The changes, which were announced last week (20 August) will see Manning, Bevan... Read More
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Heller Ehrman and Mayer Brown in merger talks
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. It's a maxim that the management at Heller Ehrman has taken to heart over the past year as it has explored merging with one firm after another.
A little more than two weeks ago, discussions with Baker & McKenzie, the most substanti... Read More
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DLA Piper ally completes South Africa merger
The merger between DLA Piper ally Cliffe Dekker and Hofmeyr Herbstein & Gihwala has gone live today (1 September), following regulatory clearance by South African authorities.
The combined firm, which will practise as Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, has a total of 130 directors and... Read More
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CC bolsters Paris and London with double hire
Clifford Chance (CC) has bolstered its international capabilities with two senior hires for its Paris and London offices.
The magic circle firm has strengthened its Paris arm with the addition of a former French government official.
Laurent Vallee, formerly a ... Read More
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