Real Estate

Travers takes lead role on Pinewood real estate and community project

By Legal Week | June 25, 2009

Travers Smith is advising Pinewood Studios on planning matters as it creates a working community in Buckinghamshire. The City firm has been advising Pinewood on real estate, planning, environment and real estate management issues connected with the studio's plans to build a living and working community for the creative industry.

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Partnership for Schools unveils expanded 17-firm panel

By Legal Week | June 23, 2009

Partnership for Schools (PfS), the delivery body for the Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, has unveiled the firms on its new legal panel. Seventeen law firms feature on the roster. They are: Addleshaw Goddard, Beachcroft, Bevan Brittan, Burges Salmon, Dickinson Dees, DLA Piper, Eversheds, Mills & Reeve, Nabarro, Norton Rose, Pinsent Masons, Sharpe Pritchard, TPP Law, Trowers & Hamlins, Walker Morris, Ward Hadaway and Wragge & Co.

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Public and regulatory law

By Legal Week | June 22, 2009

DLA Piper and Reed Smith take on the practice issues as Alex Aldridge investigates legal careers in the public sector.

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DLA Piper lays off 9% of workforce in Middle East offices

By Legal Week | June 18, 2009

DLA Piper has launched a second round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm cutting 9% of staff in the region, including one partner. In total, 22 staff will lose their jobs in the region, including nine fee earners. Staff were informed last week, with the cuts taking effect immediately.

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Trowers builds up City real estate with Olswang recruit

By Legal Week | June 18, 2009

Allen joined the top 40 firm's real estate group in London earlier this month (1 June) after four years at Olswang, including two as a partner. Before Olswang, he spent four years at Clifford Chance and five years at Norton Rose. Allen, who advises on property development, investment transactions, joint ventures and lettings, most recently advised REIT Asset Management on its £635m portfolio acquisition from the administrators of the Dawnay Day Group.

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Public and regulatory law: At your service

By Legal Week | June 18, 2009

As City law firms cut jobs and freeze pay levels, the public sector has become an increasingly attractive option to lawyers. Part of the allure is, no doubt, the relative security offered by government employers. But that's not the whole story. City associates who are tired of handling repetitive tasks such as due diligence and document review have long looked enviously at the more challenging work carried out by their peers in government bodies such as the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Treasury Solicitor's Office, but shied away from moving because of the carrot of law firm partnership and higher salaries. However, with uncertainty about future employment prospects – let alone partnership prospects – rife, increasing numbers have begun to consider a move into public service roles.

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BLP completes redundancy consultation with 85 staff laid off

By Legal Week | June 17, 2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has completed its redundancy consultation, with the firm laying off 85 members of staff. More than half of the cuts (47) were compulsory, with 32 staff opting for voluntary redundancy and six choosing to take early retirement.

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Freshfields quartet quits to join K&L Gates Berlin office

By Legal Week | June 15, 2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a four-lawyer team in Berlin with the departure of public procurement partner Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann to K&L Gates. Hausmann will join the US firm along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert - who joins as counsel - and two other associates. Hausmann has been with the magic circle firm since 1996, making partner in 2002. He and his team advise on public procurement and public private partnerships (PPPs) as well as antitrust, state aid and trade.

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Eversheds secures Tyco-style mandate from Smiths Group

By Legal Week | June 11, 2009

Eversheds has been appointed as the preferred legal adviser for technology company Smiths Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The law firm will provide commercial, litigation, employment, real estate and company secretarial advice across the region, with London-based head of international litigation and dispute management John Heaps acting as the relationship partner to Smiths. Eversheds will use its global account management system - first developed for its relationship with Tyco - with the London Stock Exchange-listed Smiths.

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Northern Ireland

By Legal Week | June 10, 2009

L'Estrange & Brett and A&L Goodbody address the practice issues facing the Northern Irish legal market.

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The Recorder

Big Law Firms Downsize Office Space in DTLA, Expand in Century City

By Jessie Yount | August 29, 2022

Quinn Emanuel and O'Melveny are among the firms downsizing in Los Angeles, while more firms, including Willkie, Ropes & Gray, and Paul Hastings are growing in Century City.

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The Legal Intelligencer

3 More Eckert Seamans Lawyers Join Whiteford Taylor & Preston in Pittsburgh

By Justin Henry | August 29, 2022

At least six attorneys have left the Am Law 200 firm for Baltimore-based Whiteford in the last calendar year.

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Daily Business Review

Is It Too Easy For Developers to Overlook Climate Change in South Florida?

By Raychel Lean | August 29, 2022

"We've just got to rewrite the rules in a proper way in order to get the types of projects that are going to make our community stronger and better, and more vibrant and more resilient," said David Martin, CEO of Terra in Miami.

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Daily Business Review

The Next Generation of Attorneys Are Studying Environmental Law

By Raychel Lean | August 29, 2022

"People are coming with that on the top of their list, whereas before we had very few or we had people who got here and then learned about the topic," said one environmental law professor at the University of Miami.

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Daily Business Review

South Florida Sea Level Rise in Pictures: Which Communities Are Projected to Flood?

By Raychel Lean | August 29, 2022

Click right on the graphic below to see the extent to which sea level rise is expected to impact buildings across Miami-Dade County.

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Daily Business Review

'It's a Big Problem': The Insurance Industry Is the Harbinger of South Florida's Climate Change Risks

By Raychel Lean | August 29, 2022

"If there's a direct-hit Category 5 storm that hits Miami, you're going to see 20 insurance companies go bankrupt and are not going to be able to pay claims. It's become a big problem," said South Florida insurance broker Joseph Gendelman.

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Daily Business Review

South Florida's Business Leaders Could Become Global Pioneers in Climate Change Adaptation. Here's How

By Raychel Lean | August 29, 2022

"Can Miami not only rise to the occasion, pardon the pun, to address sea level rise for our own sustainability, but could we in fact become a transformative community that becomes a leader in mitigating these problems for the world?"

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Daily Report Online

Troutman Pepper Adds 2 Partners Amid Higher Demand in Real Estate Transactional Practices

By Jacob Polacheck | August 26, 2022

Heath Linsky and Mary Katherine Rawls, who joined Troutman from Morrison & Foerster, said all of their clients will be joining them.

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Law.com

AG's Office: Virginia Landlord Ordered to Pay $10K in Restitution to Tenants Who Were Misled About Low-Income Programs

By Allison Dunn | August 26, 2022

"We will not tolerate landlords who take advantage of Virginians seeking affordable housing by violating and ignoring laws designed to protect Virginia consumers," Miyares said in a written statement. "My office is dedicated to protecting vulnerable Virginians from such abusive practices, and we will continue to hold bad actors accountable."

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Daily Business Review

Do Condo Associations Benefit From Retaining Multiple Law Firms for Litigation?

By Melea VanOstrand | August 26, 2022

"As long as there are clearly defined roles it's not something that I would perceive as a challenge. It should be collaborative as long as everyone is going in the same direction," said Lauren Fallick, a partner at Miami-based litigation firm Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine.

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