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Olswang extends alternative billing menu to all clients

Olswang has rolled out an alternative pricing menu across its entire client base, as the firm continues to move away from traditional hourly billing rates. The firm has issued all clients with a menu of eight alternative billing options, with the intention of moving away from hourly rates where possible. The move comes after the firm devised the pricing menu in May last year, initially targeting its top 150 clients.
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Camerons senior partner vote goes to second round as energy partner Lane drops out

CMS Cameron McKenna has begun the second round of voting to elect the firm's next senior partner, with three candidates remaining after Robert Lane was eliminated during the first round. Energy partner Lane stood against three other City candidates who remain in the running - former managing partner Dick Tyler, banking and project finance partner Andrew Ivison and consumer products head Louise Wallace.
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Hogan Lovells confirms three City tax redundancies as consultation closes

Hogan Lovells is to make three associates in its London tax practice redundant following a consultation that started in November last year. The consultation was led by tax partner Karen Hughes, with four associates in the group placed at risk of redundancy owing to reduced work levels across the practice. Taking the redundancies into account, the London tax practice will now have six partners and 19 lawyers, working with clients including Barclays, ExxonMobil and Ford.
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Partner exits expected as Camerons conducts internal restructuring

CMS Cameron McKenna is set to see at least four partner departures as a result of a restructuring which has also seen a small number of partners moved down the firm's equity ladder. The departures come as a result of an internal partner review that began at the end of last year and closed in January.
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Mr Popular - CC's uber-networking senior partner Stuart Popham on a life in law

From aspiring banker to heading the world's largest law firm - Stuart Popham has travelled a long distance in his career. Suzanna Ring finds CC's outgoing senior partner lives up to his rep as the best-connected lawyer in the City...
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Taylor Wessing recruits COO and HR director with Linklaters and Deloitte hires

Taylor Wessing has made a double management hire with the addition of a chief operating officer and a human resources director. The firm has hired Linklaters' London HR director Caroline Rawes and Deloitte chief of staff Clare Singleton as HR director and COO respectively. Singleton will join next week (31 January), with Rawes set to move in May. The two roles, which will cover both the UK as well as international projects, were previously covered by COO Jonathan Croucher, who left the firm at the end of last year to become a full-time vicar.
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International Edition

Offshore law duo announce redundancies

Offshore law firms Appleby and Conyers Dill & Pearman have cut a number of jobs in Bermuda in response to reduced work levels in the region. Appleby has made 11 redundancies in Bermuda, including two lawyers, with business support units bearing the brunt of the cuts. The firm said it had taken the decision in response to reduced workflows over the last two years.
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International Edition

Dickinson Dees set for banking job cuts in new redundancy consultation

Dickinson Dees has kicked off a new redundancy consultation in the firm's banking practice. The consultation - the regional firm's fourth since November 2007 - will affect the firm's banking group, which is headed up by partner Deborah Kirtley, with two fee earners set to be laid off from the seven-member team.
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International Edition

Does contract work make unemployed lawyers unemployable?

There might be signs of a more robust (or at least a more stabilised) legal market, but let's not forget the thousands of jobless law grads and laid-off lawyers still out on the streets. A couple of months ago on this blog, I asked an obvious question - now that times are better, why won't firms rehire some of those who were laid off during the economic downturn? I've heard from a few partners and headhunters who told me - off the record, of course - that those laid-off were not top drawer to begin with. The really good lawyers, they contend, were all kept on.
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Trowers confirms job cuts as H1 financials fall behind budget

Trowers & Hamlins is set to make another round of job cuts in London and Manchester after confirming that turnover has fallen behind budget for the first half of the financial year. The firm has confirmed that it is reviewing five fee earner roles and two staff jobs in Manchester as well as four fee earner roles in London, after reviewing three or four UK positions in August this year.
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