Jeremy Hodges

March 10, 2010 | Law.com

White & Case has made an additional round of partner promotions in a bid to rebuild its partnership, following a number of high-profile departures in recent weeks. The U.S. firm promoted five lawyers, plugging the gaps in several areas where the firm has been badly affected by recent departures, with two new partners in Abu Dhabi and three in its global banking practice.

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March 25, 2009 | New York Law Journal

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May 15, 2008 | Law.com

White & Case has become the latest firm to announce increases to its U.K. associate salaries, with the firm unveiling raises of 2.1 percent for its junior lawyers. A newly qualified solicitor will now earn 78,000 pounds ($152,000) -- an increase of 2,000 pounds ($3,900) on the previous year's figure of 76,000 pounds ($148,000). Assistants with one year post-qualification experience will be in line for 86,000 pounds ($167,600) and 97,000 pounds ($189,000) the year after.

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April 15, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Microsoft has signed a new deal with Integreon that will see the legal process outsourcing company carry out further legal support services for the software giant. The new agreement confirms Integreon as Microsoft's exclusive provider of offshore managed document review.

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October 09, 2009 | New York Law Journal

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October 08, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Lovells and Hogan & Hartson are in the early stages of merger talks, Legal Week can reveal, with the firms' management teams currently assessing the case for a transformative union.

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October 21, 2009 | Law.com

Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Latham & Watkins have taken key roles on Qatar Holdings' sell-off of part of its stake in Barclays Bank. The sale -- which amounts to about 50 percent of the warrants the Middle East investment company acquired last October -- could raise in the region of 1.4 billion pounds ($2.3 billion), 750 million pounds ($1.2 billion) of which will be paid to Barclays.

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January 26, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Telecom giant Vodafone has appointed former Reuters legal chief Rosemary Martin as its group general counsel and company secretary. Martin will take up her new role on April 1, replacing Stephen Scott, who is retiring after 30 years with the company. Martin spent 11 years with Reuters before leaving in 2008 to take up a post as chief executive of legal publishing company Practical Law Group.

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April 08, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Kirkland & Ellis restructuring partner Paul Atherton has backed out of a move to Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) and is set to continue at Kirkland's London arm.

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May 18, 2010 | Law.com

Hogan Lovells has seen its first partner departure in Europe since the confirmation of the trans-Atlantic merger deal, with Moscow corporate partner Ilya Rybalkin set to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Rybalkin, a partner at Hogan & Hartson, will join Akin Gump's Moscow office in July. In April, Akin Gump launched in Switzerland when Hogan's Geneva office opted out of the Lovells merger in favor of a move to the U.S. firm.

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