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August 09, 2010 | International Edition

Ashurst recruits Nabarro financial services regulation chief in the City

Ashurst has secured a boost for its City regulatory practice with the hire of Nabarro financial services regulation head Rob Moulton. He will join the top 10 UK firm on 1 November as a partner in the financial regulatory group, which is headed by City partner James Perry.
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March 31, 2010 | International Edition

Ashurst hires regulatory partner to expand US practice

Ashurst has moved to expand its Washington DC practice with its first lateral hire in the US since its high-profile American launch last year. Margaret Sheehan is set to join Ashurst after resigning from US law firm Alston & Bird. Sheehan has worked as a partner at Alston since 1996 in the firm's financial services and products department and will join Ashurst as a partner in its financial regulation group.
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November 19, 2009 | International Edition

Former US senator set to join DLA Piper

A former US senator is set to join DLA Piper as a senior policy adviser, reports The National Law Journal. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle will join DLA on 1 December as a senior policy adviser, and will also become a member of the firm's governing global board. He has spent the last four years as an adviser at Atlanta's Alston & Bird.
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July 08, 2009 | International Edition

Cadwalader offers sabbaticals instead of layoffs

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has created an alternative to layoffs, as firms continue to look for more creative ways to engage under-utilised lawyers. The New York firm, which was one of the first to lay off associates back in January 2008, has opted for paid sabbaticals, as reported on Above the Law earlier this week (7 July).
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July 31, 2008 | International Edition

US firm adds 94 lawyers in LA merger deal

US firm Alston & Bird has secured its expansion into California with the acquisition of a Los Angeles firm and an intellectual property (IP) practice in Silicon Valley. The two acquisitions, approved by the firm's partnership today (31 July) give Alston almost 100 lawyers in California. The LA firm, Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, has 83 lawyers, while an 11-lawyer IP group has joined the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's Silicon Valley office.
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June 04, 2008 | International Edition

Hot topic

Kenneth Berlin and his team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have been working on climate-related matters for years. He headed the Justice Department's Environmental and Natural Resources Division, chaired the Environmental Law Institute and has shepherded a mountain of environmental litigation for major corporations. Skadden had not needed a climate change group before: it simply tapped environmental, energy regulatory, intellectual property and tax lawyers to help out when the need arose. Partners at the US's highest-grossing law firm have, however, changed their minds: this month, they were scheduled to launch a 23-lawyer group specifically devoted to climate change issues.
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January 23, 2008 | International Edition

US five make Fortune's list of best employers

Arnold & Porter and Bingham McCutchen are among five US law firms to have retained places in Fortune magazine's latest annual list of the 100 best companies to work for, writes The Recorder, with both firms hailed for the diversity of their employees. The duo are joined on the list, published earlier this week (22 January), by Atlanta firm Alston & Bird, Nixon Peabody and Perkins Coie - the same five firms that made the list last year.
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October 12, 2007 | International Edition

US Briefing: West Coast salaries hold steady

Earlier this year, rumors were swirling that some New York firms would raise first-year salaries to $200,000. But with deal activity slowing down, associates at California's largest firms may have to hold tight at $160,000. The Recorder's annual salary survey reveals most firms have adopted a lockstep scale for base compensation, but are showing some creativity when it comes to bonus structures. "That is what the big debate has been 'what is the best bonus system?'" said O'Melveny's Luann Simmons.
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July 26, 2006 |

Slaughters and friends advise on €1.5bn INEOS securitisation

Legal Week reports
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July 26, 2006 | International Edition

Slaughters and friends advise on €1.5bn INEOS securitisation

Legal Week reports
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