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Quinn Emanuel opens office in Hamburg with A&O team hire

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has launched an office in Hamburg with the hire of a team from Allen & Overy (A&O). The US firm opened its second German base yesterday (30 April), hiring A&O's local intellectual property (IP) head Nadine Herrmann to lead the office. Herrmann, whose practice also covers antitrust litigation, has joined Quinn Emanuel with a 10-strong team, which includes six associates.
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Corporate hit as Herbert Smith kicks off London redundancy consultation

Herbert Smith is set to make up to 51 redundancies in London, with many of the job losses expected in the firm's City corporate practice. The firm announced today (30 April) that it is embarking on a redundancy round aimed at reducing London staff headcount by 51 - equivalent to just over 3% of total City staff.
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Linklaters leaders apologetic over controversial restructuring

Linklaters' senior leadership team used the firm's annual partnership meeting last weekend (20-21 April) to apologise for the way its controversial partner restructuring was handled and to confirm final details of the numbers affected.
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Ex-senior partner trio team up for new venture to help partners land board roles

A trio of high-profile former law firm senior partners have teamed up to launch a new service intended to help partners find non-executive positions with charities. Former Simmons & Simmons senior partner Bill Knight has joined forces with ex-Allen & Overy and Slaughter and May counterparts Guy Beringer and Tim Clark to launch the new venture alongside RollonFriday founder Matthew Rhodes...
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Fortune's firms - as King & Wood goes global, can its Chinese rivals follow?

The internationalisation of China's legal market has seen the country's law firms prosper both locally and abroad. Can they continue to dominate their market as other global firms move in? Alice Gartland reports
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Field Fisher makes up six in 2012 partner promotion round

Field Fisher Waterhouse has announced its 2012 partner promotions, with the City firm making up five partners in its London office and one in Brussels. Half of the promotions are in the firm's dispute resolute practice, where Alexandra Underwood and Rhys Griffiths join the London partnership, and Jacquelin d'Oultremont bolsters the partner count in Brussels.
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Slaughters drops twice-yearly associate pay review system

Slaughter and May is abandoning its longstanding biannual pay review system, with the firm's associates now set to receive one pay rise a year instead of two. The move, which comes as Allen & Overy (A&O) this week kicked off the 2012 associate salary round with marginal increases for junior lawyers, brings Slaughters in line with its magic circle peers.
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Western firms with China ambitions urged to think creatively on billing

Western law firms need to think more creatively about which companies they target and how they bill in order to win work in China, according to partners at leading local firms Fangda and Jun He Law Offices.
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Stewarts Law set for double office launch in US

Stewarts Law is set to launch its first international offices with the firm to open two offices in the US. The firm will open in New York and Delaware on 1 May with the hire of litigation partner duo David Straite and Ralph Sianni who have joined from their own boutique Sianni & Straite to lead the offices.
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On the record... with DLA Piper's Nigel Knowles and Tony Angel

In this video, DLA Piper joint CEO and managing partner Sir Nigel Knowles and global co-chairman Tony Angel talk to Legal Week editor Alex Novarese about the background to Angel's surprise move to the firm, how the duo expect to work together and the challenges ahead.
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