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Linklaters overhauls international board with seven new members

Linklaters has overhauled its international board, with partners electing seven new members to represent both regions and practice groups on the firm's main oversight body. Three of the changes are in London where corporate partner Charlie Jacobs, banking partner David Ereira and tax partner Lynne Walkington - who each held one of the two places held for London corporate; London finance & projects and London commercial respectively - stepped down from the board when the vote was confirmed last week (18 May).
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International Edition

Cobbetts elects dispute resolution head Carr as managing partner

Cobbetts' has named national head of dispute resolution Nick Carr as its new managing partner, following a contested election with Manchester corporate head Paul Johnson. Carr will take up his three-year term on 1 June after securing the majority of partner votes in a process which concluded last Wednesday (16 May). The firm has yet to decide who will replace Carr as head of disputes and he will continue in the role for the time being.
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International Edition

Taylor Wessing re-elects Eyles as UK fee income rises 12%

Taylor Wessing has re-elected Tim Eyles as UK managing partner in an uncontested election, with the vote of confidence coming as the firm posted a double digit increase in UK revenues in 2011-12. Preliminary financial results look set to take the Anglo-German law firm's UK fee income above the £100m mark for the first time, on the back of a 12% increase in turnover from £92.1m to £103.2m.
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Legal Week

Young and restless - John Young reflects on a 33-year legal career

At the end of last month John Young bowed out of Hogan Lovells by somewhat unusually zipwiring across Old Billingsgate market in front of more than 900 lawyers and staff at a summer party (brought forward to coincide with his retirement) dressed as Braveheart.
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International Edition

Irwin Mitchell names first female regional managing partner to lead London base

Irwin Mitchell has appointed a new London managing partner following the retirement of chairman, senior partner and London head Michael Napier.
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International Edition

Norton Rose and Fulbright talk synergies amid US merger hunt

Norton Rose has confirmed that it has held informal talks over the possibility of a tie-up with Fulbright & Jaworski as the expansive firm continues its search for a US merger.
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International Edition

DAC Beachcroft inks Canada tie-up ahead of Latin America moves

DAC Beachcroft has secured an association with Canadian law firm McCague Borlack, signing a two-year agreement ahead of a potential full merger in 2014.
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International Edition

Quality marks - a patchy partnership always bodes ill

As Dewey & LeBoeuf this week officially became the world's largest legal failure, it seems an appropriate moment to return to a theme touched on often in this column: the difference between success and failure in the high-end legal market. Years of covering the profession have made me believe it has surprisingly little to do with business models or market positioning. Though law firm leaders and commentators often belabour the 'right' strategy or shape for a firm, the global legal market offers a bewildering array of successful outfits operating wildly different models. What have Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Clyde & Co and Travers Smith got in common? Not much. There is also often confusion between correlation and cause. Is Freshfields successful because it is magic circle, or magic circle because it is successful? That isn't semantics (though there is no clear answer).
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International Edition

Young and restless - John Young reflects on a 33-year legal career

At the end of last month John Young bowed out of Hogan Lovells by somewhat unusually zipwiring across Old Billingsgate market in front of more than 900 lawyers and staff at a summer party (brought forward to coincide with his retirement) dressed as Braveheart.
8 minute read

International Edition

White set to retire as Slaughters backs leadership for second term

Slaughter and May is gearing up to select a new executive partner with current post-holder Graham White set to retire from the firm at the end of April next year, when senior partner Chris Saul and practice partner Paul Olney will take up their second terms in office. The magic circle firm was expected to confirm to partners yesterday (10 May) that White will step down from the role and leave the firm, while Saul and Olney will each continue in their respective roles for a shortened term of three years.
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