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Sandelson and Brock contest CC global litigation chief role

Clifford Chance (CC) is set to elect a new global litigation chief next week, with a contested election already underway. Current London managing partner Jeremy Sandelson and litigation partner Denis Brock are competing for the post, with a decision expected to be reached next week.
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Four New Square set to increase pupillage award by 33%

Four New Square is to increase its pupillage award by 33%, with the chambers set to boosts its payment to £60,000 over the next two years. The chambers is to raise its current pupillage award from £45,000 to £50,000 - which includes £10,000 guaranteed earnings - for 2010-11.
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Reed Smith hires third London partner in a month

Reed Smith has made its third lateral partner hire in London in a month, bringing in litigator Robert Falkner from Morgan Lewis & Bockius. Falkner joins the US firm's European and Middle East dispute resolution practice today (1 October), bringing with him a practice focused on financial services. He has experience representing clients including investment banks, broker dealers and fund managers.
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Vilification of offshore 'tax havens' smacks of hypocrisy

Offshore jurisdictions - or tax havens to their detractors - have had a bad press recently. During a briefing on 4 May 2009, President Obama returned to a subject he first raised during his election campaign: a building in the Cayman Islands which is the registered office for more than 12,000 companies. This "outrage", said President Obama, is either "the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world". The President supports the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Bill currently before US Congress.
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Ex-Slaughters and SJB senior partners lauch litigation support company

Two former senior partners of Slaughter and May and SJ Berwin have teamed up to help launch a new litigation support company. Former Slaughters chief Tim Clark and SJ Berwin's David Harrel are both involved in the launch of Proven, which will form a separate branch of strategic advisory company G3, where Clark was named deputy chairman earlier this year.
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BPP appeals for Bar students to defer two weeks into course

BPP Law School has been forced to appeal for volunteers to leave its Bar Vocational Course (BVC) and take up places next year. The move comes at the request of the Bar Standards Board (BSB), which gives BVC course providers validated numbers of students which they are not permitted to exceed. The email asking for volunteers to leave and re-enrol in September 2010 was sent on 17 September - 10 days after BPP's BVC started on 7 September.
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Macfarlanes advises as Trafigura class action reaches £30m settlement

The long-running class action brought by 30,000 claimants against oil company Trafigura has settled for £30m. The settlement, approved by Mr Justice MacDuff yesterday (23 September) will see the claimants, represented by Leigh Day & Co, receive £950 each. The class action claimed that they were poisoned by 'slops' - toxic waste dumped near Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 2006.
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Norton Rose hires A&O and Eversheds partners in City push

Norton Rose has secured two partner hires for its City headquarters - strengthening its corporate finance and dispute resolution practices. Former Allen & Overy (A&O) corporate partner Ian Lopez is set to join the top 10 City firm's corporate practice next month and will sit within the firm's communications, media and technology team.
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Eversheds unveils 15-strong panel of preferred chambers

Eversheds has finalised its panel of barristers' chambers, with Brick Court Chambers among 15 sets winning a spot on the roster, which has been whittled down from 90 sets. In an unusual move the top 10 firm has also launched a secondment programme, which sees barristers from the selected chambers joining the firm for up to six months. The panel review, which was led by head of litigation Ian Gray and ran from March to July 2009, was prompted by Eversheds' desire to tighten relationships with a smaller number of sets. Those chambers making the panel include Fountain Court, Essex Court, One Essex Court, 4 Pump Court, 4 New Square and Henderson Chambers as well as Brick Court
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Jon Fortnam: Buffett's ebbing tide makes professionals claim targets

Warren Buffett remarked that 'only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked'. Professionals may - rightly or wrongly - be targets for the deflection of some of the ensuing embarrassment. Professional negligence claims are already on the increase.
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