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After Leadership Fight, 11 Leave Firm to Launch Boutique
Addleshaw Goddard has confirmed that a team of litigators are set to leave the firm's City practice at the end of this month to launch a new boutique.40 Under the Ax as Firm Launches Far-Reaching Restructuring Plans
Barclays Capital Gets Ready for Outside Counsel Musical Chairs
Two years after Barclays Capital bought the rump of Lehman Brothers' North American assets for $1.75 billion, the British investment bank has started a review of its outside counsel roster in the United States. The review, which is the first by Barclays since that September 2008 deal, is part of a plan to reduce the number of external legal advisers used by the London-based bank. Michael Crowl, managing director and general counsel for the Americas at Barclays Capital, is leading the review.GC of BT's IT Service Has Global Calling
BT may be one of the U.K.'s best-known national brands, but few outside the telecom industry will have appreciated quite how far removed it is from the public company that was privatized 25 years ago. At the vanguard of this transformation is its IT outsourcing service, BT Global Services -- a fiercely acquisitive outfit with a turnover of �5bn a year. Its general counsel, Tim Cowen, has played a key role in the division's aggressive global expansion program.U.K. IT Directors Discuss Challenges of Social Media
Social media, in all its variant forms, is very much part of everyday life now, and law firms would be best advised to accept that and move on. This was the message delivered by Debra Logan, senior vice president of research at Gartner, to the Legal Week Intelligence annual roundtable for IT directors held in association with Bytes Technology.BUPA Cuts Back Legal Costs in Review of Firms
Global health care giant BUPA has slashed its spending on external legal fees after inviting firms to offer more competitive rates as part of its tender process. General counsel Paul Newton began reviewing the company's M&A, litigation and procurement advisors in February. After creating a short list, the firms were invited to render their services at lower rates in an e-auction style process. It is understood that the review has led to a 30 percent reduction in the company's legal costs.SNR Denton Gets High Marks From Clients on Costs, Billing Practices
SNR Denton has emerged as the highest-ranked top 20 U.K. law firm by clients for cost and billing practices, according to Legal Week research. The report found that within the U.K.'s largest 20 law firms, the top-tier firms ranked the lowest when it came to client satisfaction with costs.Proskauer closes in on long-awaited London debut
Proskauer Rose is set to make its entrance into the London market with the New York firm in talks to recruit the former head of O'Melveny & Myers' London arm to launch its U.K. law practice. Proskauer is in advanced discussions with O'Melveny private equity partner Matthew Hudson about leading the new venture — ending months of speculation about its entrance to London.BigLaw Big Smoke Firms Pledge to Reduce CO2 Emissions
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