Lawyer: June 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

Lawyers on holiday

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LAWYER NEWS DAILY - 30/06/2008
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Lawyers on holiday
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On a sunny Monday at the end of June, associates could be forgiven if their attention drifted from due diligence to holidays.

Especially those at Addleshaw Goddard, whose retreat has been cancelled while partners enjoy la fete with their counterparts in Paris. See story.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133578

Managing partner Mark Jones told The Lawyer that the partners "had competing priorities about how to spend our discretionary spend" (sic).

But with the Paris Le Grand hotel where they stayed just a stone's throw from the city's Les Grands Magasins department store district, there may have been competing priorities about how to spend their extra 44 grand too.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133007

Partners at DLA Piper and Hammonds, meanwhile, are slaving in the galleys at conferences on cruise liners. Hammonds sources were vague on the details, though The Lawyer understands that partners will brave the stormy seas between Barcelona and Cannes.

DLA Piper partners, meanwhile, are hard at work discussing strategy issues on the 138,000 tonne Navigator of the Seas' rock-climbing wall, basketball court, ice-skating rink, in-line skating track, casino, five-story theatre and mini golf course.

Meanwhile, Queen's Bench judges could also do with a holiday, and much, much further north, lawyers from Denton Wilde Sapte were in the sauna beating those from CMS Cameron McKenna with birch branches after their 27-17 midnight rugby victory.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133576
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BREAKING NEWS
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30-June-2008 Macfarlanes ups salaries across the board
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133580
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30-June-2008 Dentons beat Camerons in midnight rugby final
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133634
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30-June-2008 Overworked' QBD judges blast long hours culture
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133576
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30-June-2008 Addleshaws associates miss retreat after partner Paris jolly
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133578
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30-June-2008 New PEP target set for mid-market as Simmons latest to top GBP600k
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133579
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30-June-2008 Linklaters shakes up Euro management team
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133581
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30-June-2008 Linklaters makes competition masterstroke
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133587
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Friday, June 27, 2008

CMS and Dentons Finnish up at rugby

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LAWYER NEWS DAILY - 27/06/2008
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CMS and Dentons Finnish up at rugby
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What are you doing this weekend? Out on the tiles? Catching up with the kids? Or just grouting the bathroom?

Whatever you're doing, it's not likely to be playing rugby at, er, midnight, in Finland. Unless you're a lawyer at Denton Wilde Sapte or CMS Cameron McKenna, that is (see story).

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133572

Event organiser Andy Cotton, a Helsinki-based English partner at Dentons' local best friend Procope & Hornborg, told The Lawyer that though the Finnish "have a good mentality for rugby," he expects the "superior technical skills of the English and French teams" to win through.

Which given that even Finland's national team lost to those titans of rugby football Israel this month, seems like a fair guess.

We're just waiting to see DWS and Camerons take on the Finns at ice hockey.

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Elsewhere, a Harrods spokesman recommends a fossilised knighta eocaena palm leaf, a Henk crocodile skin travel case or a Jaeger le Coultre watch, but what would you do as a Simmons partner with a spare GBP47k?

Plus new posts on Hill Dickinson and Walker Morris in our Top of the PEPs 2008 blog, see our Lawyer Awards 2008 gallery and read about a triumphant Freshfields and all the awards winners.

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BREAKING NEWS
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27-June-2008 Minter Ellison promotes 14 to partner; one in London
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133570
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257-June-2008 DWS vs. Camerons in night-time Nordic rugby slam
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133572
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27-June-2008 Salans appoints first global HR head
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133571
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26-June-2008 Squire Sanders concludes Ann Summers dispute
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133567
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26-June-2008 Simmons & Simmons smashes PEP target
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133566
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26-June-2008 Squire Sanders brings Ann Summers dispute to an end
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133567
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25-June-2008 Outer Temple and Mark Howard QC win Bar's top awards
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133563
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Dawkins and the dosh

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LAWYER NEWS DAILY - 26/06/2008
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Dawkins and the dosh
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What would you do with a spare GBP47,000?
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133566

How about a 57ft traditional narrowboat, complete with washing machine? Or a pet-grooming business in Dallas, Texas?

Alternatively, you could plump for a George III statuary white marble chimneypiece with rectangular breakfront shelf centred by a tablet carved in relief and inlaid with a Greek fret.

Or just grab that two-bedroom terraced house in Hull.

Anyway, whatever they choose, this is the dilemmas facing equity partners at Simmons & Simmons, who have cracked their GBP600,000 PEP target by exactly that sum.

Simmons managing partner Mark Dawkins wouldn't be drawn on the question, preferring instead to talk about practice groups and performance and that sort of thing.

Personally we'd opt for that giant golden-coloured tiger fish we've been dreaming about. But log on HERE to make your own suggestion.

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And if you don't know by now, Freshfields stole the show at The Lawyer Awards this week but there was also good news for teams including those at Outer Temple, Olswang, the OC and, er, 4 Birds. For the full list of victors, click here.

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26-June-2008 Simmons & Simmons smashes PEP target
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133566
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26-June-2008 Squire Sanders brings Ann Summers dispute to an end
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133567
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25-June-2008 Outer Temple and Mark Howard QC win Bar's top awards
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133563
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25-June-2008 The Lawyer Awards: Freshfields scoops Law Firm of Year
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133555
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25-June-2008 A&O, CC and Norton Rose win GBP4.5bn Barclays deal
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133564
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25-June-2008 Olswang bags mid-market corporate team of year
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25-June-2008 Cox takes over as Herbert Smith real estate chief
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Squire Sanders & bedroom toys

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THE LAWYER IN NEW YORK - 26/06/2008
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Squire Sanders & bedroom toys
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Saucy bedroom toys . It's not often we get to talk about saucy bedroom toys. So we were delighted to receive news of Squire Sanders & Dempsey's earth-moving arbitration victory for the delightfully-named Celine Gueffier over British er, erotic retailer Ann Summers.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133567

Ann Summers built a very successful business back in Blighty by selling a certain type of toy to women in their own homes, and it's turned into a high street chain. It's got so big that there are franchises selling Ann Summers tools and knickers, or panties, in California.

Bryan Cave defended Ann Summers, which could turn out to become a very lucrative client given its controversial past.

In 2006, the retailer outraged Muslims with the launch of a blow-up doll called Mustafa Shag and later upset Apple with its iGasm product, which slotted in to an MP3 player to produce good vibrations for the music lover.

Squire Sanders partner Douglas Rovens was definitely feeling the good vibrations when he greeted the decision as part of a "holy trinity" of California Supreme Court cases, which establish broad arbitration powers.

We knew there was a legal angle somewhere.

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26-June-2008 Squire Sanders brings Ann Summers dispute to an end
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133567
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25-June-2008 Bird & Bird crowned International Firm of Year
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133559
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25-June-2008 Pakistan law defender scoops Editor's Award
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133556
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24-June-2008 MoFo raids Sonnenschein for trio of IP partners
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133554
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23-June-2008 Bad review prompts SFO to create GC-style role
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133423
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23-June-2008 JPMorgan axes Links from panel after litigation row
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Freshfields in the mood for dancing

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Freshfields in the mood for dancing
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer crowned an astonishing couple of years with the Law Firm of the Year prize at The Lawyer Awards last night.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133555

The firm has undergone a revolution which ultimately produced astonishing financial results this year. Chief executive Ted Burke was beaming as he received the gong from cheery host Lord Falconer.

Falconer was in fine fettle, presenting Tyco's EMEA general counsel Trevor Faure with the In-house Lawyer of the Year gong for "scaring the sh*t out of Eversheds".

Bird & Bird managing partner David Kerr put a smile on Falconer's face when he sashayed on to the stage to collect the International Firm of the Year prize with three extremely glamorous young associates. "Kerr and his three birds", joked one of his rivals.

"I thought it was a bit different," he told The Lawyer afterwards. Indeed.

Slaughter and May senior partner Chris Saul and frock-coated JP Morgan associate GC Tim Hailes led the way on the dancefloor as the Bootleg Beatles rocked the Grosvenor until the early hours.

But the night belonged to Freshfields. It may have lost a few partners along the way, but that didn't concern those such as litigation chief Ian Terry and Burke, who happily danced the night away.

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25-June-2008 Bird & Bird crowned International Firm of Year
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25-June-2008 Osborne Clarke scoops Real Estate Team of Year
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133558
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25-June-2008 The Lawyer Awards: Freshfields scoops Law Firm of Year
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133555
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25-June-2008 Pakistan law defender scoops Editor's Award
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133556
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25-June-2008 Music industry body fills GC vacancy after year
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/1335457
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24-June-2008 Burges Salmon and Foot Anstey post double digit growth
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133551
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24-June-2008 MoFo raids Sonnenschein for trio of IP partners
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133554
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

News Briefs

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	06.24.2008 Bonnie Workshop: Why Local Involuntary Mental Health Intervention Rates Vary Professor Richard Bonnie led a workshop explaining local variations in mental health crisis intervention and considered what sorts of variations should be regarded as acceptable.
	06.23.2008 Graduate Awards: Four in the Class of 2008 This year's graduation awards honored a number of outstanding law students -- including Ray D. McKenzie, Rebecca Mroz, Alicia Ellington and Katherine Twomey.
	06.16.2008 Jeffries Looks Back Fondly on Years as Dean John C. Jeffries Jr. may know the Law School better than anyone. He's been intimately attached to Virginia for more than 35 years, serving as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review in his student days, then joining the faculty two years after graduation. As dean for the past seven years, Jeffries has led the school through a number of important transitions. Now he's ready for the next big change.
	06.16.2008 Abraham Authors Book on History of Torts, Insurance The histories of tort and insurance law are inextricably intertwined, Professor Ken Abraham writes in a new book published by the Harvard University Press.
	06.10.2008 Experts Analyze Role of International Humanitarian Law in Modern Conflicts Modern warfare presents new challenges to those who must interpret international humanitarian law, visiting experts said during a recent seminar at the Law School. Members of the U.S. policy community, international relief workers, military officials and others met in Charlottesville from May 28-30 for "Applying International Humanitarian Law to Today's Conflicts," a seminar sponsored by the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Law School's Human Rights Program.
	06.09.2008 Cohen Workshop: The Fault That Lies Within Our Contract Law Professor George Cohen takes issue with the strict liability paradigm as it applies to contract law.
	06.09.2008 Economics Expert to Join Law School Faculty in Fall A legal scholar with a background in economics will join the Law School faculty in the fall. Joshua B. Fischman, currently a professor in the economics department at Tufts University, will teach quantitative methods in the fall and administrative law in the spring.

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THE LAWYER AWARDS 2008

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Turning out pentrating legal commentary 52 weeks a year can get tiring, so it's a relief when a firm offers us both the story and the comedy.

Step forward Martineau, the Birmingham-based firm that got in touch to tell us it has officially cut off its Johnson.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133063

Martineau is just the latest in a string of firms to drop names in recent years, including a de-Wansbroughed Beachcroft, Nabarro nee-Nathanson and Lawrence Graham, which re-named itself after a popular brand of fridge.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/119783
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/124499
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/125747

Lest they be mistaken for a bunch of public schoolboys, however, Clifford, Allen and Herbert have resisted the trend.

So far the Martineau re-brand consists largely of, um, changing the website to feature an illegible paragraph about the name change.

http://www.martineau-johnson.co.uk

But then with Martineau PEP up nearly half on last year, who are we to mock?

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133164

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Meanwhile DJs and frocks are being donned for the premier event of the legal calendar - the Lawyer Awards tonight. Links has also been severed and the battle over Narnia has taken a new twist. Don't forget to give us your views.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133063
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133421
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24-June-2008 Burges Salmon and Foot Anstey post double digit growth
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133551
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24-June-2008 Martineau Johnson re-brands as 'Martineau'
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133550
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23-June-2008 Hill Dickinson stuck with flat PEP
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133547
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23-June-2008 Macfarlanes' figures hit by credit crunch
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133546
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23-June-2008 Herbies sends London corporate man to lead Singapore
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133429
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23-June-2008 JPMorgan axes Links from panel after litigation row
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133421
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23-June-2008 Bakers fails to follow its own advice in Narnia saga
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London, we have a problem...

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London, we have a problem...
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There was shock and awe on the stateside of the Atlantic this week as news of Linklaters' decision to stand by Barclays at the expense of JPMorgan sank in. See The Lawyer's front page story.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133421

For many Americans the case highlights the gulf between the approach to litigation in the US and UK. One English partner at a top US firm described the lack of any real heavyweight UK firms willing to take on the banks as a "very real problem".

Among the many things the US is not short of is top quality litigation boutiques. More to the point, many of these boutiques aren't concerned about institutional financial services clients getting their knickers in a twist - mainly because they don't have any. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is a case in point.

The magic circle has always been less keen to take on the banks. As Linklaters has proved, there is a reason for this.

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23-June-2008 Keeping up appearances
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23-June-2008 Bad review prompts SFO to create GC-style role
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133423
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23-June-2008 JPMorgan axes Links from panel after litigation row
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133421
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23-June-2008 SFO prepares to adopt the American way as challenges mount
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133498
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19-June-2008 Yet another partner leaves Heller
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133403
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18-June-2008 DLA Piper scoops $6.7bn biotech merger
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133393
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Monday, June 23, 2008

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Shockwaves are still reverberating around the City with The Lawyer's revelation that JP Morgan has ejected Linklaters from its panel. See story.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133421

Blame the litigators - again. As so many firms have found to their cost, suing banks tends to lead to trouble.

And as noted in our Leader, Linklaters finance lawyers in London won't be too happy with their US litigation colleagues. But it didn't start this way. http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133428

When Linklaters began acting for Barclays last year on the suit against Bear Stearns, JPMorgan was nowhere near the action.

But when Bear was taken over this year, JPMorgan was outraged to discover that one of its preferred law firms was leading the lawsuit. An epic row ensued.

So could the major global firms start backing away from financial litigation? There are plenty of transatlantic disputes specialists more than happy to take their place.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

It's alright for some...

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If you're heavily exposed to the insurance or property sectors at the moment, then the likelihood is that you're in for a rough ride.

Yesterday we revealed that Davies Lavery is being swallowed up by Kennedys after three years of declining revenues. (Separately, you can read another story on two Davies Lavery refugees setting up DWF's new London office.)

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133407
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133416

Today, we reveal that Howard Kennedy (no relation) is set to make up to 50 redundancies. Howard Kennedy's woes are not helped by its exposure to the real estate market that makes up almost 50 per cent of the firm's revenues. That was fine last year, when the property market was booming but this year it leaves them painfully exposed.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133414

The firm has a tiny equity partnership (18 out of 75 partners are equity-holders) and plateau partners reaped GBP900,000 last year. The firm's management claims that this year's figures are also looking good but are yet to be audited. A swathe of redundancies while the equity partners rake it in is only going to lead to widespread dissatisfaction.

The market is consolidating fast.

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Make sure you check Monday's edition of The Lawyer for more on the redundancies sweeping through the legal market as Matt Byrne reports from New York on the lessons to be learnt from the US.

Also in Monday's edition: The SFO's recently-appointed director Richard Alderman speaks exclusively to The Lawyer about the challenges facing his new employer; Law Society president Andrew Holroyd speaks about the challenges of returning to practice and the Bakers/Narnia fiasco takes an intriguing turn.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Lion, the Witch and the trademark

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And then, in the land of eternal winter, Aslan appeared and illuminated everything before him in golden hues.

"Let the global firm Baker & McKenzie be gone with its claims of trademark ownership!" he thundered.

"Let it be known that I have appointed Alistair Payne of Matheson Ormsby Prentice to act for the father who coincidentally appears to own 78 domain names!"

"Let the last battle commence."

Not since the excellent BlackBerry A&O costs row has the IP world been so agog. The story of CS Lewis' estate marshalling Baker & McKenzie to sue a Scottish 11-year old for owning a Narnia domain name has got all the elements of the best adventure tale.

But is this giant-killing story quite what it seems?

Turn the page to The Lawyer.com (or just click here) to find out the next twist in the tale. No dwarves or talking mice yet, but it's only a matter of time. http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133410

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It's been a busy day on TheLawyer.com. You can find out about Kennedys' merger with Davies Lavery here, Herbies bowing to market pressure on salaries here, and the continuing woes of LG's financials here.
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Yesterday (18 June) news broke that another partner was deserting the ship. This time it was litigator John Benassi, who had set his sights on Cooley Godward. Benassi's exit comes just a week after another Heller partner and litigator, Jessica Wolff, also joined Cooley.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133403

The pair's goodbyes takes the total of partner departures at Heller so far this year to at least 20. To be honest, we're starting to lose count.

Throw in those that jumped ship last year and a decent cricket score of partners (that would be around a half century, or 50, for non-cricket lovers) have left in around 18 months.

True, Heller has also hired. But it's impossible not to get the impression that the lustre has vanished from the Heller brand.

As one former partner put it: "There are huge chunks of revenue that have gone along with these partners, many of whom were formal or de facto group leaders in the core practice areas Heller said it was going to focus on, such as real estate, securities and litigation.

"The message from the excom last year was 'let's wait until 2008'. This was their response to a deteriorating franchise and a recognition that there was little internally left to work with."

Insiders, and newly minted outsiders, all say Heller's business strategy is to merge.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

FSA caught short over new rules

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So the FSA has decided to clamp down on opportunistic short-selling, following the turmoil surrounding recent rights issues by HBOS and Bradford & Bingley. See story http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133391

Investors will now be forced to publicly disclose their short positions - a terrifying prospect for famously secretive hedge funds.

The move should allow other banks to repair their damaged balance sheets in peace. A good thing, surely?

Not according to City lawyers, who have been given just a week to advise clients before the new rules come into force.

They say the FSA's announcement is unclear and was rushed out without consultation. One partner said: "It feels like it was written on the back of a cigarette packet," pointing to bizarre errors in the text.

The document certainly has a unique style. At one point it announces: "The disclosure must include the of the [sic] name of the person who has the disclosable short position."

The FSA has now released a second statement to clarify the new rules. It might be too early to tell whether it has eased confusion in the City, but at least they appear to have used a spell checker.

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Top of the class

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Policemen get younger, all the pop music sounds the same and exams get easier every year.

Well that last one may be true, at least if today's LLB story is anything to go by. http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133379

As readers will discover, the number of law students graduating with first or 2:1 degrees has more than doubled during the last 20 years, according to new research.

Professor John Usher, head of law at the University of Exeter, which saw an increase of 196.1 per cent, denies that standards have dipped, maintaining that its just that "we're just attracting better students and our teaching has significantly improved."

As presumably is the case at Birmingham, Birmingham City, Bristol, Brunel, Central Lancashire, Dundee, Durham, Edinburgh, Essex, Exeter, Glamorgan, Huddersfield, King's College London, Southampton Solent, Middlesex, Newcastle, Nottingham, Coventry, Leicester, Liverpool, LSE, London Met Manchester, Manchester Met, Oxford, Queen Mary London, Reading, Sheffield, SOAS, South Bank, Strathclyde, UCL, UEA and Warwick universities.

Must be something in the water.

So are standards slipping? Log on to defend your alma mater...or tell us how easy it was. http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133379

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Plus: hats off to Ben Williams and James for their contributions to the debate about Narnia, Baker, McKenzie and the birthday present; the diversity row between Eversheds, recruiters and the rest of the legal world has taken a new turn; British justice is being compromised, and lawyers are out in the streets protecting the rule of law. http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133214
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http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133324

Plus the London Legal Walk; Latham, Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI in the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast. http://www.thelawyerpodcast.co.uk/

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Last week, www.thelawyer.com posted two tales of laterals with a similar focus joining top firms.

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Today (17 June), we join the dots.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133380

On Friday (13 June), we reported that Simpson Thacher had ramped up its executive compensation capabilities, snaring Tristan Brown from Akin Gump in Palo Alto. The back story is that one Simpson partner had retired and another moved on in Silicon Valley, making Brown's hire essential.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133242

Just the day before (Thursday 12 June), we covered the move of former McCarter & English managing partner, Steve Eckhaus to Katten Muchin.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133222

In an entirely unrelated chain of events, over the weekend the bell began to toll for AIG CEO, Martin Sullivan. By Monday (16 June), the story was out in the open: another day, another credit crunch job loss.

For both Simpson and Katten (which is thought to be advising Sullivan), the timing could not really have been any better.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

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As PR moves go, threatening to sue an eleven-year old over his love for a much-treasured work of children's literature is probably about the worst possible.

Still, business is business, so Baker & McKenzie has duly sent an 128-page legal complaint to parents Mr and Mrs Saville-Smith of Edinburgh (see story).

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133376

The dispute concerns Narnia.mobi, an internet domain name - that's the second half of an email address, technophobes - which the couple registered in their son's name as a birthday gift -much to the irritation of the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis.

Unsurprisingly, Baker Mac is keeping its head down and refusing to comment, and The Lawyer understands that as yet Mr and Mrs Saville-Smith are eschewing offers of pro bono help from, pleasingly an English firm, an Irish firm and a Scots one..

However The Lawyer is happy to recommend alternative counsel.

London firm Peters and Peter, Susan, Edmund & Lucy, perhaps?

Equally, Scottish firm Tumnus & Wilson would be a good bet, as would CS Lewis Silkin, or our personal favourite, Newcastle-based Wardrobe Hadaway. Submit your own Narnia pun

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133376

Or there's brand new media boutique Aslan Charles Kousetta (see story).
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Meanwhile the row between Eversheds, recruiters and, er, the rest of the legal world has taken a new turn; British justice is being compromised and lawyers are out in the streets to protect the rule of law.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133202
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=133244
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=133324

Plus the London Legal Walk; Latham, Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI in the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast. Blimey.

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16-June-2008 Howard Kennedy media department walks
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16-June-2008 Law Society faces 65m GBP bill to fund pension deficit

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Friday, June 13, 2008

The real story

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How's this for timing?

Just minutes after TheLawyer.com features its roundup of leading legal views on the 42-day detention extension, northwest firm Mace & Jones tells us it is making its own unique contribution to the debate: a short story competition on the theme of 'justice'.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133239
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133240

Well, sort of.

Though we at The Lawyer suspect a more seditious motive, Mace & Jones head of employment law-come-celebrated-crime-fiction-writer Martin Edwards maintains that the competition is just the firm contributing to Liverpool's Capital of Culture celebrations.

"The short story is a marvellous literary form I am passionate about," he said.

"The idea is simple. We encourage both amateurs and professionals to submit a story. From the judging panel's viewpoint, the field is wide open."

For which read: "the government is interfering with our fundamental rights! This goes back to Magna Carta! Live free or die trying!"

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Elsewhere on TheLawyer.com: the diversity row rages on with 100 reader comments and counting; find out what our wisecracking panel of employment lawyers had to say on The Apprentice final; plus the latest posts on Trowers & Hamlins, Stephenson Harwood and other firm financials on our Top of the PEPs 2008 blog.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133202
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=133228
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=132764

Plus Eversheds' grassy roof, the ex deputy GC of the FBI, the London Legal Walk; Latham, Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival in the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast. Enjoy your weekend.

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Thacher banishes Proffitts of doom

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Thacher Proffitt, reluctantly, became one of the legal market emblems of the downturn last year, when in December it became one of the first major firms to make significant layoffs among its ranks of associates. Certainly it was one of the first to do it publicly.

A debate is still raging in the US market over how many firms have laid off associates using stealth rather than frankness. All the signs point to Thacher Proffitt being firmly in the latter camp.

In total since the credit crisis began the firm has laid off around 55 associates - some 25 per cent of its total number this time last year.

Tvetenstrand's willingness to confront that reality head on internally, and his unwillingness to blame anything other than economic conditions for the job cuts, is refreshing.

With his comments to The Lawyer, he appeared to draw a line under that period of Thacher Proffitt's history. The high number of partner departures suggests that not everything is tickety-boo, but at least with Tvetenstrand you get the feeling that if there is more pain to come, he and the firm won't try to hide it.

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In case you didn't recognise its distinctive call, that was the sound of a pterodactyl flying to the top.

A reverse pterodactyl, specifically, also known as the lesser-spotted CV-cheating, dinosaur-impersonating, self-proclaimed rough diamond Apprentice winner Lee.

(That's what we're talking about).

Lee scored a shock victory over bookies-favourite Claire in the final of the BBC hit after his Alpha team pulled together in its task of launching a 'men's fragrance' - despite Lee's nerves almost getting the better of him at the presentation stage.

Find out what our wisecracking panel of employment law experts had to say about the show here.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133202

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Meanwhile, debate continues to rage on the diversity row between Eversheds, recruiters and most of the legal world here, there's more on diversity here, Stephenson Harwood announces double digit growth here, and plenty more on law firms' financial results on our Top of the PEPs 2008 blog.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133202
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Plus the London Legal Walk; Latham, Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI in the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast. Blimey.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Diversity… again

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At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, today's Lawyer News Daily is dedicated to the diversity row between Eversheds and the recruiters.

Or at least that's who it used to be between. Some 58 reader posts on TheLawyer.com later and it's all become a lot more, well, diverse.

Sub-debates have emerged concerning diversity monitoring, public schooling, Jews in the law, disability hiring, discrimination against white people, representation of men, the merits of positive discrimination and just who should take the heat when law firms don't recruit minority lawyers. Oh and on, er, diversity at NASA.

"Why don't BMEs just get over it?" wrote one poster at 12.03pm today. "The problem is that candidates need to be realistic - you can't get a degree from an old poly and expect to get a training contract with a top international firm."

Another argues that "Jewish people don't need special help to enter the law as they are already very well represented" (12.43pm), while a post at 11.40am says that "there are some great HR Managers out there who really do see the skills a disabled person can bring, but it's the partners who make the ultimate decisions".

Log on and join the debate here
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Meanwhile there's plenty more on diversity; Olswang announces a U-turn on NQ salaries, our Top of the PEPs 2008 blog continues with new posts on Ward Hadaway, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Martineau Johnson's 48 per cent PEP hike.
See stories
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http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=132764

Plus the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast features the London Legal Walk, Latham Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Lawyers in the streets

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Lawyers in the streets! Taking on the man!

Not words we get to write often at The Lawyer, in truth, so frankly we're making the most of them in today's News Daily, which focuses on the lawyer-led uproar in Pakistan. See story
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Anyone sticking up for the rule of law is to be praised in our books, and when its lawyers themselves, all the better. Though not all our readers agree.

"It is concerning to read about lawyers hanging, beating and setting on fire an effigy of Musharraff, however dislikable a character he is - shouldn't lawyers be upholding the rule of law rather than encouraging mob violence?" wrote one TheLawyer.com site user early this afternoon.

'Joe Bloggs', meanwhile, focused on the PR aspects of the protest, putting Pakistani lawyers 'in stark contrast to our unfair reputation here as cynical bloodsuckers'. Have your say here.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133210

One other poster noticed an interesting similarity with legal controversy closer to home, meanwhile. "I know if the government ever tried to interfere with British justice I'd be out in the streets protesting," he or she wrote.

"If they tried to keep people locked up for weeks without charge, for instance." To have your say on that topic, click here.
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ALSO: Oh! My! Word! is debate raging on Eversheds' row with recruiters over diversity. See story
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133202

Plus our Top of the PEPs 2008 blog continues with new posts on Lewis Silkin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Addleshaw Goddard; and the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast features the London Legal Walk, Latham Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI.
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Mandy gets a handle on it

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Forty-eight hours after the candidates in the marathon US presidential election were finally whittled down to two, a controversial figure from the UK's political past issued a warning to the future American leader and a few lawyers.

The name Peter Mandelson was once enough to drive a shudder down the backs of many a British politician. Yesterday, in the elegant surroundings of the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan, Tony Blair's shadowy spin doctor called up some other rather notable names from the past to help him warn the assembled dignitaries about the dangers of protectionism. See story

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133208

Mandy's theme was simple: We're all in it together. And whoever takes over from Bush in January better not have protectionism in mind or, presumably, he'll have Mandy to answer to.

I spotted lawyers from Linklaters and Alston & Bird in the audience. They seemed to be clapping along with the rest of us as Mandy called for confidence in addressing, "the biggest re-structuring of economic life since the industrial revolution".

Just a thought, but could it have been the thought of the fees generated by a wholesale restructuring of economic life that was making the representatives of Wall Street applaud?

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09-June-2008 Debt buybacks row rages, LMA to negotiate
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Monday, June 9, 2008

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The Lawyer today featured a legal first: a firm getting rapped for being too active in promoting diversity.

That was the fate of Eversheds, which has ignited a row with recruiters after slamming them for "getting away with murder" by not monitoring race, gender or sexuality among their proteges. See cover story
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133202

And TheLawyer.com users are already posting their views.

Bobby Smith wonders "how on earth recruitment companies are supposed to manage the diversity of the law firms they serve when it is the law firms who make the final decision as to who they recruit?".

'Cliff Chance' accuses Eversheds of "passing the buck" on diversity. One anonymous poster describes the firm's stance as "laughable" while another comes to its defence, arguing that what really is "laughable is that recruiters think that they can wash their hands of this issue".

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Elsewhere on TheLawyer.com, the Top of the PEPs 2008 blog continues with new posts on Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Martineau Johnson's 48 per cent PEP hike and what it takes to be top of the technology tree.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/132764

Plus the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast featuring the London Legal Walk, Latham Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI. Phew!
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09-June-2008 Recruiters slam Eversheds' demands for diversity
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09-June-2008 Simpson Thacher joins the rush from New York to Brazil
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09-June-2008 Simmons' Tokyo office plundered by Lovells
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09-June-2008 Cleary retains 100 per cent of NQs
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09-June-2008 Links names new Poland chief
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09-June-2008 Eversheds faces OFT complaint from student

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Did lawyers spike our drinks last night? Or did we imagine it?

Did we really see a faceless upside down greyhound? A bowler-topped doorman?

Was that a hallucination in those dark, dark loos, or was the paper really hanging on chains? And what about the French maids and mind-readers?

Ah, no. This was the latest attempt to claim Trendy Law Firm Of The Year*, with Nabarro snubbing City wine bars in favour of the sensory cornucopia that is West End haunt Sketch.

So confusing was the whole psychadelic experience that one legal journalist is understood to have got lost and ended up in the restaurant kitchen.

Ominously enough, some Nabarro lawyers were also overheard discussing how to spice up the firm's desert of an atrium.

We can only hope managing partner Nicky Paradise doesn't pick up any interior design ideas.

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http://www.thelawyer.com/item/132764

Plus the June edition of The Lawyer Podcast featuring the London Legal Walk; Latham, Watkins and New York's TeatroStageFest theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roof and the ex deputy GC of the FBI. Phew!
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06-June-2008 Arnold & Porter bag Winston & Strawn lawyer to lead Euro corporate
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05-June-2008 BLP, Simmons & Simmons in GBP635m MoD training deal
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05-June-2008 Reed Smith taps Clydes for energy hire
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05-June-2008 Lovells promotes 46 to of counsel
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05-June-2008 Latham raids Davis Polk for structured finance hire
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Thursday, June 5, 2008

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This might be the results season but there's only one result that we are really interested in: the winner of TV's The Apprentice.

Hell, some lawyers have talked about nothing else all day, with our team of employment experts penning their thoughts on the penultimate instalment of our The Apprentice Analysed blog.
http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133092

(Press delete now if you recorded it last night. And apologies to Sofia, whose week we ruined last week by revealing the result before she had watched it.)

Tasks were dispensed with in this week's episode in favour of a series of pressurised interviews in which Sir Alan drafts in four business buddies to help out - including Birmingham City FC boss Karren Brady.

Lee is busted for lying on his CV - his 'two years' at university is revealed as four months - and further damages his intellectual credibility by demonstrating the 'dinosaur impressions' he had listed on the hobbies and interests section.

But Lee escapes the chop when Sir Alan reveals the surprise he has in store - just one, not three candidates will be sacked, leaving a final of four candidates. And Lucinda is the one...

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Plus The Lawyer's answer to Radio 4 returns today with a June edition of The Lawyer Podcast featuring the London Legal Walk, the Latham lawyer who set up New York's TeatroStageFest Latino theatre festival, Eversheds' grassy roofs and the ex-deputy GC of the FBI. Eat that, John Humphries. http://www.thelawyer.com/item/132764

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05-June-2008 Latham raids Davis Polk for structured finance hire
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05-June-2008 BLP, Simmons & Simmons in GBP635m MoD training deal
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05-June-2008 Ward Hadaway PEP grows just 2.5 per cent
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04-June-2008 RPC media litigation head moves inhouse at Daily Mail
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04-June-2008 Martineau Johnson PEP surges 48 per cent
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Three months ago, Chadbourne & Parke snared an estimated $30m business in Mexico in the form of Thacher Profitt & Wood's Mexican operations.

No disrespect to Mexico, but now that looks as if that was merely a precursor to a bigger play: Brazil.

The news that Chadbourne is to open an office in Sao Paulo later this year is confirmation both of the US firm's ambitions and of the potential in Latin America (See story).

www.thelawyer.com/item/133107

Latin American practice group partners Allen Miller and Talbert Navia will spearhead Chadbourne's latest adventure, drawing heavily on the lawyers and relationships it gained in March.

The likelihood is that when they get down to Sao Paulo, they won't be short of company from foreign lawyers.

Brazil might still be lagging behind China and India in terms of its BRIC attractiveness, but in legal market terms at least, it's pulling out all the stops to catch up.

Brazil: The new Dubai.

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03-June-2008 Freshfields and Slaughters seal GBP2bn TNS merger
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03-June-2008 Former Milberg head sentenced to 30 months jail
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Shed loads of space

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Last night Eversheds held yet another party to celebrate its new office (you know, the one with the sheep on the roof and the bras in the flooring). We thought it was lovely.

And there's plenty of space to expand into. Almost enough space to merge with another London firm - the size of, oooh, McGrigors, say.

After entirely unconvincing denials of merger discussions from both McGrigors and Eversheds, we can only say: pull the other one.

For as thelawyer.com revealed yesterday, Eversheds just took on former McGrigors chief Colin Gray, plus banking partner Colin McKay.

www.thelawyer.com/item/133093

A move oddly reminiscent of when Ashurst managing partner Justin Spendlove left for Fried Frank, just a few months after talks between the two firms collapsed.

It looks as if the real story behind Gray's move is that McGrigors has stalled in the City. Two years ago, Gray announced internally that he wanted McGrigors to get to GBP100m in turnover in order to be taken seriously in London.

That hasn't happened; the firm had revenues last year of GBP60m, according to The Lawyer UK200. You couldn't blame Gray if he felt frustrated with the lack of progress. No wonder he jumped to now-bullish Eversheds.

If you can't merge with 'em, join 'em, eh?

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04-June-2008 War of words breaks out over Law Soc's poor performance
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04-June-2008 Bar Council launches in Europe
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03-June-2008 Freshfields to launch office in Abu Dhabi
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03-June-2008 OFT raids banks on law firms' loans investigation
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Everyone's talking about... Freshfields

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Freshfields has had a great year, as its remarkable average profit per equity partner (PEP) hike of almost 40 per cent shows. See story.

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But does that mean the legal community is sitting back and marvelling at the magic circle machine's money making excellence? Does it hell!

As evidenced by user comments on TheLawyer.com, some readers are a little bit cynical about Freshfields' stellar year, observing that "getting rid of 100 equity partners" has boosted PEP while "if you take the [euro] exchange rate from last year, then the percentage increase on turnover is only around 9-10%".

However, Freshfields has plenty of fans, with one anonymous reader posting "very impressive results, especially when you consider that Freshfields don't massage their numbers by making a huge chunk of their partnership non-equity like some of the other usual suspects".

So has this truly been a brilliant year for the Anglo-German giant, or has it been a rare beneficiary of the pound's decline against the euro? And how will the magic circle partners fare within the Transatlantic Elite? http://www.thelawyer.com/item/133086

You decide. But don't forget to log on and let us know your thoughts.

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03-June-2008 Eversheds joins diversity group after 2nd Tyco deal
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03-June-2008 Mel Weiss sentenced to 30 months inside
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What do Wachtell, Cravath and Sullivan & Cromwell have in common?

If you answered they're the only three remaining top 50 US firms with higher average profits per partner than Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, you win a free bagel.

Last month, in The Lawyer Transatlantic Elite, we hinted at the UK-headquartered firm's astonishing 2007-08 performance. The results published yesterday confirm it (see story).

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1X482757614712f012.cde

With its 39 per cent increase to GBP1.44m, Freshfields' average profitability has leapfrogged Kirkland, Cleary, Paul Weiss, Milbank, Willkie and even Cadwalader. It has even squeezed ahead of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Clearly, Freshfields has a lot going for it right now. As chief executive Ted Burke points out, the firm's wide international coverage (and Asia in particular) has been a boon over the past year or more.

Inevitably what the firm's new profits peak does put squarely back onto the agenda is its US merger ambitions.

It was just over two years ago that Freshfields' senior partner Guy Morton put a tie-up with a US firm at the top of his personal to-do list, saying in his first interview since taking the post, "I think the partners are ready mentally for a merger".

Comparative financial performance has long been the traditional barrier to a top-tier, US-UK tie up. Not now.

Now the most pertinent question might be, would a potentially dilutive merger with a Wall St titan be in the best interests of Freshfields?

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For more on year-end results at Freshfields and all the top UK firms as they come in, click here.

http://www.thelawyer.com/item/132764

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Monday, June 2, 2008

Freshfields' magic roundabout

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Freshfields' magic roundabout

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Another day, another magic circle financial results announcement.

Last week Clifford Chance was first off the block, announcing a modest 11 per cent rise in turnover coupled with a 13 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP). See story.

www.thelawyer.com/item/133002

Today, Freshfields has unveiled an incredible 39 per cent PEP hike and a perfectly respectable turnover increase of 19.5 per cent.

Clearly the firm's restructuring last year which saw it cull 100 partners from the equity (see story), has had the desired effect on PEP.

www.thelawyer.com/item/124074

This year's average take home of GBP1.44m is enough to make rivals green with envy (and force a few US firms to take note). But more interesting is the firm's turnover growth and what it means for the rest of the magic circle.

Freshfields' 19.5 per cent seems to have come easily, and given the firm's deal presence even during the past six months alone, is hardly surprising.

But if Linklaters, which has yet to announce its results, can match that rate of growth, it will knock Clifford Chance off the number-one-firm-in-the-world-in-terms-of-turnover pedestal it has occupied for, well, ever. And with Linklaters' transactional record during the past six months, that's all but a done deal.

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PS: how's YOUR firm doing? For more on Freshfields and all the top firms as they come in, see our Top of the PEPs blog HERE.

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