Legal Week

June 29, 2009 | International Edition

"I am a mid- to senior- level associate at a City firm and have recently been diagnosed with MS. I have not yet told anyone. I'm not particularly affected by it yet, although how it will progress is uncertain. The symptoms which have particularly affected me so far include fatigue, cognition and language difficulties.

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June 29, 2009 | International Edition

When pop legend Michael Jackson died on Thursday (25 June), he left behind multiple lawsuits that are pending against, and some brought on behalf of, himself and his production company, MJJ Productions. Lawyers handling those cases are spread across the country, managing everything from breach-of-contract disputes to employee claims to copyright infringement, writes The National Law Journal. It is unclear who would represent Jackson's estate in the litigation.

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June 28, 2009 | International Edition

History teaches us certain things about attitudes to booms and busts. We know both are usually exaggerated at the time. We also know that attitudes often lag reality, especially with busts. The lag factor means people can come their most gloomy when the worst point has already past. A famous example is Bill Clinton's election pledge to fight a recession that had, it was later discovered, already ended.

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June 26, 2009 | International Edition

Mike Semple-Piggott, AKA legal blogger Charon QC, turned up a couple of interesting podcasts this week – interviewing Labour MP Diane Abbott about her latest campaign to prevent the use of secret evidence in UK courts, and chatting to Tim Kevan, the author of the Times Online BabyBarista blog, about his forthcoming novel 'BabyBarista and the Art of War'.

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June 26, 2009 | International Edition

Eversheds' South African ally is to scrap its local name and rebrand as Eversheds.

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June 26, 2009 | International Edition

Clyde & Co has picked up Clifford Chance's (CC's) Paris environment head Pierre Bechmann.

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June 26, 2009 | International Edition

Denton Wilde Sapte and Taylor Wessing are both set to retain only half of their trainees due to qualify in September.

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June 26, 2009 | International Edition

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is to bolster its finance practice with the hire of high profile Allen & Overy (A&O) leveraged finance partner Andrew Bamber. Bamber is set to join BLP over the coming weeks after seven years as a partner in A&O's leveraged finance team. He came over to the magic circle firm in 2002 from Norton Rose as part of a team of four partners to leave the firm, including current leveraged finance chief Tim Polglase.

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June 25, 2009 | International Edition

Beachcroft and Dickinson Dees have posted financial results for the 2008-09 year, with Beachcroft seeing revenues climb. The national firm has posted a 6% increase in revenues, taking turnover through the £120m mark. Beachcroft's turnover for the last financial year stood at £121m compared with £114m the previous year.

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June 25, 2009 | International Edition

White & Case is to keep on 13 of the 15 trainees due to qualify in London in September, representing a retention rate of 87%. The figure is marginally up on the equivalent intake last year when White & Case kept on 86% of its trainees. The firm kept on 12 of its 13 March qualifiers earlier this year.

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