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March 18, 2008 |

London Development Agency GC Focuses on Legal Regeneration

Tackling one of the most prestigious and high-profile jobs in England's public sector, the London Development Agency's GC, Debbie Adams, is intent on making changes. After inheriting a skeleton legal team of nine, Adams began hiring a raft of new lawyers at all levels of seniority. She also has ambitious plans to slash the LDA's annual legal costs by 3 million pounds. It is no mean feat for a body that is charged with major projects, including the complex legal issues surrounding the 2012 Olympics.
5 minute read
July 18, 2008 |

Global Focus Drives U.K. Top 50 as Firms Weather Global Crunch

The U.K.'s top law firms have pressed through the initial onslaught of the credit crunch and defied gloomy expectations to achieve double-digit revenue growth for the third year running. Legal Week's 2007-08 results, the first finalized picture of the performance of the U.K. top 50, demonstrate how the group tapped busy foreign markets to help offset the pronounced global slowdown. Total revenue across the group rose by 14.3 percent from 10.5 billion pounds to just over 12 billion pounds.
6 minute read
May 05, 2010 |

Legal Aid faces another tough year for firm fundraising

Atlanta Legal Aid Society's annual fundraising campaign is a bellwether of the economy. The fundraising target, $1.6 million, has not increased since 2008, and the group has again deferred raising the contribution-per-attorney for pacesetter firms, which make a donation for every lawyer in their Atlanta office.Last year, the per-attorney contribution was slated to increase from $400 to $500, but Atlanta Legal Aid postponed the increase.
5 minute read
October 07, 2013 |

MOVERS

Carla DewBerry joins K&L Gates' health care practice as partner in the Seattle office, plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
4 minute read
September 10, 2013 |

The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

Government lawyers join firms including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Jenner & Block; a Goldman Sachs executive heads to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck hires six from Dorsey & Whitney. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements and news releases to [email protected].
8 minute read
February 11, 2009 |

Seward & Kissel Lawyers Help Negotiate Deal With Pirates

It was the day after Thanksgiving, and James Christodoulou found himself in an impossible situation.
8 minute read
September 17, 2013 |

Am Law 200 Firms, Smaller Shops Set Sights on New Horizons

After a false start, Ogletree Deakins has officially opened in London, almost a year after the firm unveiled plans to expand its international platform. Two London firms have also inked their own tie-ups, while Thompson Coburn and Clark Hill have clinched mergers to expand their operations in Los Angeles and Phoenix, respectively. Others expanding abroad include Duane Morris entering Myanmar, Dentons doubling down in Kazakhstan, Kirkland & Ellis opening in Beijing, and Holland & Knight heading to Mexico City.
6 minute read
September 17, 2013 |

The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

Eight Weil, Gotshal & Manges partners plan to defect to Sidley Austin in Dallas; Crowell & Moring hires two partners in New York from Dentons; and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher welcomes back a former U.S. attorney. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements and news releases to [email protected].
6 minute read
October 01, 2009 |

From Russia with Litigation

Legal work may be scarce in some regions, but a bear awakens in the east.
5 minute read
June 18, 2009 |

India's 'not for sale' legal market draws U.S., U.K.

Two weeks before Clifford Chance said it would fire as many as 100 lawyers in London and New York, the world's largest law firm by revenue announced an alliance with India's AZB Partners to expand operations there. The firms said in January that they were establishing a referral relationship that would give Clifford Chance a way to serve clients doing business in India, which bans foreign firms from practicing in the country.
7 minute read

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