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By Friederike Heine | June 27, 2011
Simmons & Simmons' former managing partner Mark Dawkins is set to join the London office of US law firm Bingham McCutchen. Dawkins, who stepped down as Simmons' managing partner at the end of April, is expected to join the firm's securities and financial institutions litigation group as a partner in early September after a sabbatical.
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By Sofia Lind | June 22, 2011
Stephenson Harwood has added to its City real estate practice with the hire of McGrigors London partner Stephen Sumpton. Sumpton, who made the move between the two firms earlier this month (6 June), had been a partner at McGrigors since 2002. Before that he also spent 10 years at Baker & McKenzie in the firm's London and Moscow offices, as well as two years at legacy KPMG legal arm KLegal.
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By Friederike Heine | June 22, 2011
Ashurst structured funds head Nick Terras is set to leave the firm to join Brown Rudnick's London office. Terras, who will become the US firm's 28th partner in the City, joined Ashurst last year from New York hedge fund specialist Schulte Roth & Zabel, when he was recruited as a consultant and handed a role to liaise between the UK firm's funds and derivates groups.
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
Travers Smith’s former senior partner Alasdair Douglas (pictured) has been named as the next chairman of the City of London Law Society (CLLS). Douglas…
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
Herbert Smith has hired Taylor Wessing's financial services regulatory team head Clive Cunningham in a bid to target more non-contentious regulatory work. Cunningham, who is expected to join Herbert Smith after the summer, has been a partner at Taylor Wessing since November 2006, when he joined from Merrill Lynch's in-house legal team. He previously worked at both Linklaters and KLegal.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Goltsblat BLP has strengthened its Russian banking and finance team with the appointment of a new partner from Linklaters. Oleg Khokhlov will join Goltsblat BLP's Moscow arm later this month from Linklaters, where he was a managing associate in the firm's local office.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Osborne Clarke has hired its first dedicated funds partner, bringing in Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Tim Simmonds. Simmonds, who was based in London until he left BLP at the end of May, is set to join Osborne Clarke in Bristol next week (20 June), where he will be responsible for developing the firm's funds practice across all types of investment funds, including private equity, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Lateral partner hiring by international firms in London rebounded by almost 50% last year, according to new Legal Week research. Legal Week's annual international firms in London survey, which includes submissions from most major foreign practices operating in the Square Mile, found that 93 lateral partner hires were made across the 62 firms surveyed, up 41% from just 66 the previous year.
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
US firms' aggressive European private equity drive continues as Weil Gotshal makes significant team hire from CC
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By Alex Novarese | June 15, 2011
Legal Week's in depth strand has been timely of late. While May's focus on libel and privacy coincided with sustained hysteria about injunctions, this month's international firms in London focus comes as Weil Gotshal & Manges pulls off arguably the most significant City raid yet inflicted on a leading UK law firm. If nothing else, the resignation of a four-partner funds team from Clifford Chance (CC) is evidence that a select band of US law firms is becoming a steadily more menacing threat to the City's finest.
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By Samantha Stokes | September 4, 2019
Kurt Mayr, who chaired the bankruptcy group at Bracewell, will now lead the practice at Morgan Lewis out of its New York and Hartford, Connecticut, offices.
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By Xiumei Dong | September 4, 2019
After eight years away, Jennifer Kirk has returned to Baker McKenzie from Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company.
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By Xiumei Dong | September 4, 2019
Compensation and benefits partner Alessandra Murata is leaving Goodwin Procter to join Cooley.
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By Hannah Roberts | September 4, 2019
The latest hires come after the global law firm hired another four partners to staff its new office in January.
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By Lizzy McLellan | September 4, 2019
Litigator A. Michael Pratt was chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 2008.
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By Jacqueline Thomsen | September 3, 2019
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras granted a preliminary injunction reinstating White House access for Playboy reporter and CNN analyst Brian Karem.
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By Jacqueline Thomsen | September 3, 2019
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras granted a preliminary injunction reinstating White House access for Playboy reporter and CNN analyst Brian Karem.
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By C. Ryan Barber | September 3, 2019
William Murphy of Zuckerman Spaeder called one of the witnesses an "occupational liar," and the other a "con artist" and "congenital liar."
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By C. Ryan Barber | September 3, 2019
William Murphy of Zuckerman Spaeder called one of the witnesses an "occupational liar," and the other a "con artist" and "congenital liar."
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By Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair | September 3, 2019
Attorney advertising is not a matter of "anything goes." Instead, the ethical rules contain limitations on attorney advertising practices, which can at times be confusing in light of the many new advertising methods available to attorneys.
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