Suzi Ring

March 20, 2012 | International Edition

Slaughter and May is set to relocate another City partner to Hong Kong as the firm continues to grow its capacity in the region. Corporate partner Peter Brien will move to Slaughters' Hong Kong office in August this year, taking the firm's total number of partners on the ground to eight.

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March 19, 2012 | International Edition

Charles Russell has sold its three-partner Cambridge office to Penningtons, which is also launching a new base in Guildford this week. The Cambridge office will join Penningtons as of today (19 March), with all three of Charles Russell's local partners moving to the firm - employment partners Tim Tyndall and Hilary Aldred and corporate partner James Stephen.

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March 16, 2012 | International Edition

The former legal manager of The Times, Alastair Brett, has conceded that statements submitted to the High Court in a 2009 case involving email hacking were "not entirely accurate". Brett, who gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into media standards yesterday (15 March), told Lord Justice Leveson that witness statements presented to the High Court in the 2009 case involving former Times reporter Patrick Foster "did not give the full story".

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March 16, 2012 | International Edition

US firm Goldberg Segalla is set to launch an office in London with the hire of legacy Barlow Lyde & Gilbert commercial risk and reinsurance head Clive O'Connell. The office, Goldberg's first outside the US, will open in London's EC3 insurance district at No 1 Cornhill in April this year.

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March 15, 2012 | International Edition

US law firms grew their partner count in the City by close to 10% during 2011 as they continued to increase their share of the European legal market. Legal Week's research into the hiring activity and penetration of US firms in London found total partner count at the 45 US and transatlantic firms in London taking part in the survey increased by 91 in the year to January 2012, to 1,199.

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March 15, 2012 | International Edition

Linklaters has taken over from Olswang advising News International on all outstanding civil litigation claims relating to the phone-hacking scandal at now-defunct Sunday tabloid The News of the World.

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March 14, 2012 | International Edition

Macfarlanes has grown its corporate practice with the hire of Addleshaw Goddard partner James Dawson. Dawson is set to join the City firm in the coming weeks, with a start date yet to be confirmed. Prior to joining Addleshaws as a partner in 2006, Dawson was a senior associate at Linklaters. Clients he has worked with include RBS, Lehman Brothers, telecommunications company Tiscali and global brand management company Pentland Group.

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March 14, 2012 | International Edition

Matrix Chambers has recruited Doughty Street Chambers' Richard Hermer QC, as the set looks to bulk up its public law offering. Hermer joined Matrix yesterday (13 March) and takes the number of silks in the chambers to 21. Hermer's practice focuses on human rights, public international law, public law, personal injury and actions against the police.

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March 08, 2012 | International Edition

Herbert Smith is set to overhaul its rigid lockstep structure, as merger talks with Australia's Freehills bring forward a consultation on whether the firm should introduce a more flexible system. The firm is expected to begin reviewing its lockstep in the coming weeks, with changes to be considered in light of its potential merger with Freehills, which operates a modified lockstep heavily linked to individual performance.

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March 08, 2012 | International Edition

Travers Smith is reviewing its US relationships in the wake of a number of its referral firms bulking up their UK law offerings in the City. The top 50 UK law firm has traditionally worked with US institutions such as Ropes & Gray, Goodwin Procter and Proskauer Rose – all of which have expanded in London in recent years.

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