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Weil Gotshal recruits McDermott partner Blanch in City disputes boost

Weil Gotshal & Manges has made a key hire for its London litigation team, taking on McDermott Will & Emery's disputes partner Juliet Blanch. Blanch - who heads up the law firm's international dispute avoidance and resolution practice group - is set to join Weil Gotshal's two-partner London disputes group, headed up by partner Matt Shankland.
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Departure of Stevens leaves big shoes to fill at US Supreme Court

US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a one-time centrist maverick who became a powerful leader of the Court's liberal wing, announced his retirement on Friday (9 May), just 11 days short of his 90th birthday. When Stevens departs at the end of the current term in late June or early July, he will have been one of the oldest and longest-serving justices in US history, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975, and the last justice with World War II service.
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Penningtons promotes barrister to partnership as BSB relaxes rules

Penningtons Solicitors has become one of the first firms to promote a barrister to its partnership following recent regulatory changes by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) allowing barristers to act as law firm partners. Nicole Curtis, who was called to the Bar in 1992 and was a member of 1 Paper Buildings until joining Penningtons' professional regulation team in 2003, was promoted at the beginning of the month, taking the total number of partners at the firm to 51.
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Carter-Ruck and Schillings line up on committee to review press freedom

The controversial issue of superinjunctions and the freedom of the press are to be examined by a committee set up by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, it was announced today (6 April). The committee includes Carter-Ruck media partner Alasdair Pepper and Schillings chief executive Rod Christie-Miller, both of whose firms have faced media scrutiny in recent months for their use of superinjunctions to prevent news organisations from revealing the identities of those involved in legal disputes.
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Ince promotes four with two in the City

nce & Co has announced its 2010 promotions, with the shipping firm making four lawyers up to the partnership. Jeremy Biggs and Fionna Gavin have been made up to partner in London in dispute resolution and shipping and insurance respectively.
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Lovells exits Chicago as firm shuts down seven-partner office

Lovells is set to shut down its Chicago office by the end of October following a strategic and financial review of its business. The office, which has seven partners and 15 fee earners, has been under review since before the firm's merger talks with Hogan & Hartson began.
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Former Ince partner joins Norway firm in Singapore

Norwegian leader Wikborg Rein has landed a new partner for its Singapore practice, taking on Chris Grieveson from Ince & Co. Grieveson is to head up the dispute resolution practice in Wikborg's Singapore office from 1 April, having left Ince's partnership in November.
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Freshfields promotes 18 to partner with six made up in the City

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced its 2010 partner promotions, with 18 lawyers joining the firm's partnership. Six of the promotions come in the firm's London base with Tim Wilmot (corporate), Tom Snelling (dispute resolution), Charles Magoffin (employment), Catherine Balmond (finance), Andrew Craig (intellectual property) and Jill Gatehouse (tax) all joining the partnership.
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Sydney plans new centre of international arbitration

A new centre for international arbitration is set to open in Sydney in response to the rapid increase in cases occurring across the Asia-Pacific region. The Australian International Disputes Centre (AIDC) is due to open in May 2010 and is intended to provide international businesses with an alternative location for arbitration outside Asia and the US.
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Trio of firms in dispute over Lehman bankruptcy fees cut

Three US law firms are in a dispute over fees on the mammoth US bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - which has already generated $300m (£200m) in legal costs - after their fees were reduced by marginal amounts, writes The Am Law Daily The fees dispute gained momentum earlier this week when three firms - Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, Jones Day and Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle - filed papers protesting the Lehman fee committee's reductions of their bills for the period of 1 June 2009 through the end of September 2009.
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