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Breaking news and analysis of law firm partner moves, lateral hiring trends and law school graduate employment.
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 Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Justin Henry | December 8, 2020
The 36-year-old corporate litigator says she's bringing major institutions in finance, insurance and sports to her new firm.
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By Patrick Smith | December 7, 2020
One of the few practice areas that saw a boost during the pandemic, new White & Case partners see a strong path forward even after the worst of the pandemic passes by.
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By Jonathan Erway | December 7, 2020
Amy M. Stewart, a Dallas-based lawyer and founding partner of Stewart Law Group PLLC, has been named the 2020 Trailblazer of the Year from the Texas Minority Counsel Program.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 7, 2020
Tara Hersh left her role as an associate attorney in MacElree Harvey's estates practice group to join McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 7, 2020
Since A&M bought its law school from Texas Wesleyan University seven years ago, school leadership is noticing the effects of the "Aggie ring on the finger."
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By Simon Lock | December 7, 2020
It is the firm's second New York lateral hire this year, following the arrival of Norton Rose Fulbright partner Paul Keller in March.
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By Dan Packel | December 4, 2020
Attorneys from Capitol Hill and regulatory agencies are starting to find new homes in Big Law, while demand remains high for government veterans who've already established themselves in private practice.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 4, 2020
New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
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By Dan Roe | December 4, 2020
The legal industry has yet to regain even half of the jobs it lost in April.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 4, 2020
The partners at Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt & Flores announced that Rocco DePersia joined the firm in an of counsel capacity, and Capehart Scatchard is set to offer a live interactive webcast titled "Diagnosis & Treatment of Work-Related Injuries to the Hand & Wrist."
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