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By Legal Week | August 24, 2009
Burges Salmon is set to launch its second redundancy consultation this year, with 31 jobs under threat. The firm announced today (24 August) that up to 27 support roles could go following a business services staffing review which began in March. In addition, the firm is also consulting on four fee earner roles in its property practice as a result of the ongoing market slowdown. Both redundancy consultations will formally commence next week.
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By Legal Week | August 11, 2009
Mishcon de Reya has completed its second redundancy consultation with 16 people losing their jobs. The consultation, which concluded in July, has seen eight support staff lose their jobs alongside eight fee earners in the firm's corporate and real estate groups. No salaried partners were affected by the redundancies.
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By Legal Week | July 30, 2009
Linklaters is set to lose a partner in Germany as Berlin-based real estate partner Jens Bock quits to join a local firm. Bock is leaving the magic circle firm to join Clifford Chance (CC) spin-off Sammler Usinger, along with M&A counsel Thomas Rieger. The duo will both join Sammler as partners, with Bock making the move on 1 September and Rieger on 1 November.
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By Legal Week | July 16, 2009
Bevan Brittan has seen profits per equity partner (PEP) increase by 35%, the firm announced today (16 July). PEP for 2008-09 stood at £222,000 compared with £164,000 in 2007-08, with the increase coming against a marginal dip in turnover to £41.1m compared to £41.6m the previous year. Overall profits increased by 56% to £8.6m.
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By Legal Week | July 16, 2009
"I'm six months qualified, but have more than the usual amount of experience in my chosen area of law. I gained paralegal experience in the public sector, trained at a small firm and then joined an international firm as an NQ. I thought things were going really well - I'd been praised by clients and the partners in my department and had made all my targets. I was even going to extra seminars, helping out with CSR and networking.
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By Legal Week | July 16, 2009
Linklaters has edged ahead of magic circle rivals Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) to top the global project finance rankings by market share for the first half of 2009. New research from Infrastructure Journal (IJ) shows that the firm leads the global rankings by value for the first six months of this year after scoring roles on 15 deals worth $7.623bn (£4.7bn). The tally gives the firm a market share of just over 5% - marginally ahead of CC.
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By Legal Week | July 15, 2009
Nabarro has reported a 9.7% drop in revenue for the 2008-09 financial year while profits per equity partner (PEP) have fallen by 35%. Unaudited figures from the firm show that revenue for the last financial year stood at £126.5m, down from last year's equivalent figure of £140.1m. PEP fell to £375,000, down from last year's equivalent figure of £574,000.
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By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
General Electric (GE) has finalised its European non-M&A legal panel, with a clutch of UK firms winning roles, including Clifford Chance and Ashurst. DLA Piper, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie are also among the firms appointed to GE's 80-firm roster.
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By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
Lovells has refocused its City real estate practice along sector and work-group lines in a bid to target more profitable instructions while the property markets continue to suffer. Lawyers within the group will now work across 13 different sub-groups, with partners taking responsibility for each area and leading initiatives to win new clients and work.
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By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
Addleshaw Goddard is to align its business around four key sector groups as part of its new five-year strategy. The national firm has highlighted financial services, public sector, retail and consumer and real estate for growth, with the firm hoping the focus will help strengthen ties with existing clients as well as attracting new clients. The sectors will run alongside Addleshaws' existing four main practice divisions – real estate, contentious and commercial, and finance and projects and corporate.
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By Alan Nochumson and Alex Goldberg | September 5, 2022
In Charlestown Township v. CMI Hartman, 2022 Pa. Commw. Unpub. LEXIS 115 (Apr. 1, 2022), the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court analyzed a municipalities' treatment of a condominium conversion with respect to state and local real estate ordinances.
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By Jane Wester | September 2, 2022
In a statement, Seth Cohen of Hogan Lovells, who argued the case, said the district and appellate rulings demonstrate that federal courts are monitoring attempts for forum shopping.
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By ALM Staff | September 1, 2022
This lawsuit was surfaced on Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Rachel Richardson | September 1, 2022
Closing the gap between leads and new leases comes down to the details. And Fair Housing Act (FHA) compliance is a major part of that. Offer a welcoming and nondiscriminatory environment for every renter to safeguard your property's marketing efforts today and continue attracting qualified renters in the future.
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By Jane Wester | August 31, 2022
While customers were not allowed to shop in person for some time, the court said "Free People never fully lost the 'use' of the leased premises," because the space was used to store merchandise and, eventually for curbside pickup.
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By Melea VanOstrand | August 31, 2022
"The commitment of Winston & Strawn and Baker McKenzie to the building further solidifies 830 Brickell's position as the alchemist for the paradigm shift in the city's evolution and demand," the developers said.
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By Melea VanOstrand | August 31, 2022
"A lot of condo associations seem to go unchecked. It's not to say that they do anything wrong, but the truth is, a lot of people aren't paying attention to what their condo board does. Especially in something like this particular building, where a lot of its members are part-time residents," said Jordan Isrow of Government Law Group. "You may not see something is happening to your building or not happening to your building until it's too late."
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By Deborah Koplovitz and Andrew B. Freedland | August 31, 2022
It seems that a recent case has tacitly recognized that noise from other neighbors and their children in apartment buildings is not unexpected, and unless it is so unreasonable that it precludes a tenant from enjoying the intended function of the apartment, a warranty of habitability claim may not make the kind of good fence that some neighbors wish it would.
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By Scott Mollen | August 30, 2022
Scott Mollen discusses "133 E. 58th Street, LLC v. Honors New York Center for Bridge," where plaintiff's who operated a bridge club attempted to be excused from rent due to impossibility of performance but the court determined to club to be a 'non-essential retail establishment, and "Moody v. The Related Companies," where an FHA discrimination claim was dismissed against the developer of Hudson Yard's affordable rental units.
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By Melea VanOstrand | August 29, 2022
Ytech has more than $3 billion in residential projects in the development pipeline in the Brickell area.
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