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By Suzanna Ring | November 15, 2012
CPA Global is gearing up to launch new offices in mainland China and the US as part of a rapid expansion plan, following its $1.5bn (£941m) acquisition by private equity house Cinven in March. The legal services outsourcer (LSO) is set to open its first Chinese office in Shenzhen (pictured) in the coming months, with another office launch in Silicon Valley also planned to go live in January.
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By Alex Newman | November 15, 2012
Law firms are focusing increasingly sophisticated business development efforts at clients as they strive to win market share. Alex Newman asks GCs how they rate law firms' BD efforts and what it's like to be on the receiving end...
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By Alex Novarese | November 15, 2012
Legal Week's editor in chief Alex Novarese argues that the Bar should ditch the dogma and focus on its past to reposition chambers as tightly focused providers of top-quality legal services...
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By Gerard Starkey | November 14, 2012
Osborne Clarke and Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) have called off talks about a prospective merger citing differences between the two firm's operating models. News of a tie-up between the firms emerged in September with talks thought to have commenced in July. A merger would have created a combined firm with a turnover of £200m.
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By Pui-Guan Man | November 14, 2012
Norton Rose is set to merge with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski from June next year, creating a 3,800 lawyer firm. The merged entity, which will be known as Norton Rose Fulbright, will sit just outside the global top five law firms, with revenues of just under $2bn.
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By Gerard Starkey | November 13, 2012
DLA Piper has announced that it is to begin a redundancy consultation affecting 251 lawyers and back office staff, following a review of its UK business. The firm will consult on the closure of its 85-person Glasgow office as well as the closure or divestment of its 50-strong defendant insurance practice, as well as the consolidation into one location of its document production unit, which currently employs 116 people across the firm's eight UK offices.
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By Alex Newman | November 12, 2012
Pannone is to make its second round of redundancies this year, with up to 16 jobs set to be cut. The jobs affected include fee-earning roles in the northwest firm's corporate services, dispute resolution and regulatory teams, as well as support roles in the firm's finance practice.
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By Suzanna Ring | November 9, 2012
LG has begun a redundancy consultation which is set to affect 18 individuals across the firm, covering both lawyers and support staff. The firm announced the consultation today (9 November), with the cuts attributed to an attempt to align "resources with what remains a difficult market".
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By Alex Newman | November 9, 2012
Dentons - the proposed three-way tie-up between SNR Denton, Salans and Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC) - has named its global management line-up as the firms' leaders urge their partners to back the merger. The new merged firm, which will be structured as a swiss verein, will be led by Elliott Portnoy, SNR Denton's current global CEO, who will take the same role at the new firm.
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By Suzanna Ring | November 9, 2012
Thirty Nine Essex Street and 4-5 Gray's Inn Square are in "advanced discussions" about a possible combination that could see the two sets come together under one brand. Should the tie-up go ahead it would create one of the largest civil sets in London with around 140 members including more than 40 silks and would be a rare example of consolidation at the bar. It is unclear whether the combination would include all barristers from both sets.
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By David Gialanella | July 10, 2018
Here's how each New Jersey firm, in order of firmwide head count, stacked up.
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By Lizzy McLellan | July 10, 2018
Longtime partners Leonard Bernstein and John Martini are among a dozen Reed Smith lawyers departing for Holland & Knight.
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By Hugh A. Simons and Nicholas Bruch | July 10, 2018
It's a groundless notion pushed by consultants and others whose interests it serves; firms of any size or profitability level can—and do—outperform the market
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By Hannah Roberts | July 10, 2018
AIM-listed firm continues to branch out from law with takeover of human capital consultancy firm
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By The Young Lawyer Editorial Board | July 9, 2018
The American Lawyer's Young Lawyer Editorial Board calls for new ways of thinking to make meaningful change when it comes to diversity.
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By Ryan Lovelace | July 9, 2018
The group includes the former co-chairs of Crowell's insurance/reinsurance group and office leaders in London and Orange County, California.
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By Christine Simmons | July 9, 2018
An uptick in demand among the biggest New York firms is helping to drive head count increases, especially for associates.
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By Lauren Stiller Rikleen | July 9, 2018
A new survey shows negative workplace experiences are rampant, and firms suffer by not preventing them.
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By Rose Walker | July 9, 2018
Tech, diversity and innovation crowdsourcing lead agenda at New York partner conference
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By Miriam Rozen | July 6, 2018
The focus is shifting toward more business intelligence research for partners and away from client-facing work, the survey results indicated.
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