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Slaughters elects disputes chief Clark to helm of firm as White retires

Slaughter and May has elected head of dispute resolution Richard Clark as its new executive partner, succeeding current post-holder Graham White. Clark will take up a four-year term from 1 May 2013, taking responsibility for the firm's overall management strategy, covering issues relating to people, compliance, finance and systems.
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Gateley to cut up to 20 fee earners across England as layoffs continue

Gateley is set to lay off around 20 fee earners across its offices in England. The firm's construction, real estate, dispute resolution and employment practices are among those which will be affected across its offices in Birmingham, London, Manchester and Nottingham.
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Norton Rose chief gears up for post-merger expansion in New York and LatAm

Norton Rose chief executive Peter Martyr is gearing up to expand in locations including New York and Latin America as the firm prepares to go live with its $2bn (£1.26bn) merger with Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski in June 2013. The Norton Rose Fulbright tie-up will give the firm 800 lawyers across 11 offices in the US, with 110 of these in New York, including 50 partners.
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Howard Kennedy to cut up to 10 support jobs ahead of FSI merger

Howard Kennedy is set to cut up to 10 support staff roles ahead of its delayed merger with Finers Stephens Innocent (FSI). The London firm, which announced the redundancy consultation following an internal review, stated that the job losses were unrelated to the forthcoming merger.
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Bird & Bird eyes Denmark merger deal

Bird & Bird is set to merge with Danish firm Bender von Haller Dragsted (BvHD), handing the firm its third Nordic foothold. The UK firm signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the 16-lawyer boutique at the start of 2012 in a bid to expand its offering in the north European IT and media sectors.
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Kennedys set for Scots merger with insurance firm Simpson & Marwick

Kennedys is set to become the latest UK top 50 firm to move into Scotland, with partners voting on a potential merger with specialist insurance firm Simpson & Marwick later this week. The merger would hand Kennedys five offices in Scotland, with Simpson & Marwick having a presence in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and East Lothian.
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Bakers joins law firm rush into Korea with application for local licence

Baker & McKenzie has become the latest international law firm to apply to open in South Korea following the country's move to liberalise its legal market last year. The US outfit is among a slew of global players eyeing the Asian sovereign state for opportunities, with Nam Hung Paik, an M&A partner in Bakers' corporate practice, appointed to lead the new office upon receiving the necessary approvals.
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1,600 polled: bluechip spending plunges as GCs press for value

Bluechip clients aggressively pressed down on legal costs in 2012, according to a major Legal Week research project which shows FTSE 100 clients slashing external spend in response to the uncertain global economy...
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Outsourcer CPA to launch new China and US bases following PE takeover

CPA Global is gearing up to launch new offices in mainland China and the US as part of a rapid expansion plan, following its $1.5bn (£941m) acquisition by private equity house Cinven in March. The legal services outsourcer (LSO) is set to open its first Chinese office in Shenzhen (pictured) in the coming months, with another office launch in Silicon Valley also planned to go live in January.
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Impress me, quickly – how do GCs rate law firms' business development efforts?

Law firms are focusing increasingly sophisticated business development efforts at clients as they strive to win market share. Alex Newman asks GCs how they rate law firms' BD efforts and what it's like to be on the receiving end...
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