Sofia Lind

January 12, 2010 | International Edition

DLA Piper has added to its China corporate practice with the hire of Minter Ellison's Shanghai office head. Wan Li, who was promoted to partner at the Australian law firm in 2005, joined DLA today (12 January) to lead the firm's Shanghai corporate practice. He has a broad corporate practice with a special focus on the natural resources and energy sectors.

By Sofia Lind

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January 12, 2010 | International Edition

K&L Gates has maintained a high number of partner promotions this year with 24 set to join the senior rank. The total number of appointments is only slightly down on the previous year, when the US firm made up 28.

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January 11, 2010 | International Edition

Appleby is set to launch in Guernsey with the hire of four lawyers from rival offshore law firm Ozannes and the relocation of a London partner. City banking and asset finance team leader David Clark is set to move to Guernsey to head up the new office. He will work alongside new corporate partners Barney Lee and Helen Crossley and litigation and insolvency and private client and trust partners Jeremy Le Tissier and Gavin Ferguson. All four were previously associates with Ozannes.

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January 11, 2010 | International Edition

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has parted company with German corporate partner Wolfgang Grobecker, just a week after announcing his arrival in the US firm's Munich office. News of Grobecker's exit comes after his previous firm, Hengeler Mueller, confirmed that Grobecker was asked to leave the leading German firm late last year because of misconduct in the workplace.

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December 11, 2008 | International Edition

Allen & Overy (A&O) has been named as the firm with the largest carbon footprint out of of a group of 18 UK firms that have chosen to publicly reveal their environmental impact. Based on the Legal Sector Alliance's (LSA) newly-developed tool, dubbed the LSA Protocol, which enables law firms to make an estimate of the level of carbon dioxide emissions it is responsible for, A&O was responsible for 27,269 tonnes of CO2 - or 8.52 tonnes per employee.Magic circle rivals Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer were ranked second and third with total emissions of 20,848 tonnes and 16,270 tonnes respectively.

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September 16, 2008 | International Edition

National firm Weightmans has been hit with the loss of six partners from its London arm, including office head Mark Whittaker. Whittaker and five other partners jointly gave six months' notice earlier this month (4 September) that they were to join DWF.The other five partners leaving Weightmans are Innes Ebert, Perry Hill, Seema Jobanputra, Dan Mitchell and Carys Oatham. All specialise in defendant personal injury and property recovery work.

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May 17, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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May 30, 2008 | Law.com

Allen & Overy has launched an outpost in Romania after signing an agreement with local firm Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu. The association, which takes effect on July 1, sees the Magic Circle firm expand its Central and Eastern European presence to Bucharest. The five-partner office, which was founded in May 2004, becomes part of A&O's regional practice, which includes offices in Bratislava, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Moscow.

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March 26, 2012 | Law.com

Clifford Chance is set to lay off up to 13 associates in its London finance and capital markets practices, in a response to a drop in natural attrition in its 1,000-strong London fee earner ranks. Meanwhile, Magic Circle rival Linklaters has confirmed that it has made a number of back office job cuts.

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October 03, 2011 | Law.com

Simmons & Simmons has overhauled its flexible working program to make it easier for transactional lawyers to work reduced hours. The initiative is aimed at countering smaller firms' reputation for having a better work/life balance and, in the longer term, increasing the number of women in Simmons' partnership.

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