Legal Week

June 10, 2009 | International Edition

White & Case has come to the end of its UK redundancy consultation with 95 fee earners and business support staff losing their jobs after a three-month consultation. The figure is at the top end of the firm's March announcement that between 80 and 95 jobs were under threat in London. The cuts were part of a wider global redundancy programme, affecting 400 jobs globally.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

L'Estrange & Brett and A&L Goodbody address the practice issues facing the Northern Irish legal market.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

Norton Rose has secured full international sign-up to its flexible working scheme, with the firm's France and Germany offices both giving their approval to reduced working hours.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition partner Nicholas French is relocating from London to Beijing to co-head the China antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

Hammonds has secured a lead role on the $485m (£304m) cross-border restructuring and sale of packaging supplier Chesapeake.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

McGrigors has expanded its City arm with the hire of Eversheds corporate partner Carsten Rumberg.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

Linklaters finance veteran David Ereira on making partner three times and backing a cinematic stinker

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead roles on the high-profile sale of a stake in Barclays.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

City lawyers have a decidedly jaded view of the contribution of consultants to the legal profession, according to research that should provide a wake-up call to advisory professionals.

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June 10, 2009 | International Edition

These days, any self-respecting company needs to declare global ambitions. To be in tune with the zeitgeist of the early 21st century, one must ramp up one's presence in China, India, the Middle East and North Africa. So, in corporate legal departments around Europe, we lawyers nod sagely and promise that we will accompany our clients on these exotic projects. Of course, most of the lawyers are Europeans like me, with little or no exposure to the legal systems of those places. So (like all good professionals) we make it up as we go along and hide our copy of Libyan Law for Dummies under a pile of learned papers.

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