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Legal Week - 28 January 2010 Reed Smith has bolstered its London real estate practice, making its second lateral hire into the group within a month. Real estate partner Philip Olmer is set to join the international firm next month from Olswang,...

Legal Week - 1 October 2009 Reed Smith has made its third lateral partner hire in London in a month, bringing in litigator Robert Falkner from Morgan Lewis & bockius. Falkner joins the US firm's European and Middle East dispute resolution...

The Lawyer - 22 June 2009 Kennedys has made two lateral hires for its insurance practice, taking on Mayer Brown partner Chris Langford and Dewey LeBoeuf partner David Wilkinson. Langford, a liability specialist joins the firm after nineteen years as...

The Lawyer – 25 May 2009 West End firm Mishcon de Reya has hired Finers Stephens Innocent (FSI) partner Simon Hunter to head its construction team. The newly created position will see Hunter head a team of three partners. At FSI, Hunter led the...

Legal Week - 18 June 2009 Trowers & Hamlins has recruited real estate partner Julien Allen from City rival Olswang. Allen joined the top 40 firm’s real estate group in London earlier this month (1 June) after four years at Olswang, including...

Former chairman and chief executive Matthew Clark left for partnership at Elborne Mitchell; associate Nick Curling joined him in the move....

The Lawyer - 6 April 2009 Insurance boutique Hextalls has lost a team of eight, including two partners, to Kennedys. Personal injury specialists Joe McManus and Charles Martin will join the firm today along with a team of four solicitors and two...

The Lawyer - 29th January 2007 Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has beefed up its London technology practice with the hire of Chris Coulter from Ashurst. ... Coulter’s move coincides with the hire of two Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partners,...

Legal Week - 7 August 2008 Mishcon de Reya has expanded its insolvency capability with the hire of Beachcroft partner Mike Stubbs. Stubbs, who has joined the firm as a partner, specialises in all areas of insolvency, reconstruction and business...

Reported separately in The Lawyer: News in Brief (The Lawyer - 4 August 2008) "Mills & Reeve has continued its insurance recruitment spree, hiring Vizards Wyeth partner Nicolas Oldham for its London insurance team. The firm expects to make...

Legal Week - 12 June 2008 Clifford Chance (CC) has strengthened its City construction practice with the hire of Herbert Smith partner Tracy London. London, who specialises in non-contentious construction work, has been a partner at Herbert Smith...

Legal Week - 24th April 2008 Baker & McKenzie has made its second London partner hire since the beginning of the year - bringing in a partner from Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis for its property team. Justin Salkeld is...

The Lawyer - 12 November 2007 One half of the partnership at matrimonial boutique Sears Tooth has defected to major rival Mishcon de Reya. David Lister was one half of the two-partner team at Sears Tooth alongside renowned matrimonial lawyer...

"People" (The Lawyer) - 19 May 2008 Speechly Bircham has appointed pensions specialist Graham Chrystie as a consultant. He leaves Halliwells, where he was a partner and head of the London pensions team....

GRAPEVINE , The Lawyer - 10th September 2007 Mishcon de Reya just can’t get enough of fraud. Last week it hired two partners and two assistants into Kas Nouroozi’s fraud and insolvency group. Since 2005, the group has doubled in size...

Legal Week - 6th September 2007 Mishcon de Reya has recruited a two-partner team from Pinsent Masons to enhance its intellectual property (IP) practice. Partner Martyn Hann and barrister Les Christy both join the London firm’s IP practice...

www.thelawyer.com Breaking News - 20th November 2006 Mishcon de Reya has swooped on London rival Speechly Bircham for one of its corporate partners, Joel Adler. Adler, a partner at Speechly’s for the past seven years and who joined...

Legal Week - 19th October 2006 Reed Smith has hired a new litigation partner for its City arm, taking professional indemnity (PI) specialist Catherine May from the London branch of insurance specialist Davies Lavery. May’s practice covers a...

The Lawyer - 4 September 2006 Maitland Chambers has poached 7 Bedford Row’s Robert Graham-Campbell, making him its new chief executive…. joint head of chambers Charles Aldous said: "Robert’s commercial experience will enable us to drive...

The Lawyer - 31 July 2006 Fladgates Suffers Rare Departure Fladgate Fielder has suffered a rare partner departure with property specialist Adrian Leavey joining Trowers & Hamlins. The hire grows Trowers' commercial property group to 11...

The Lawyer - 5 June 2006 Property litigation specialist Daniel Levy, who joined Eversheds in September 2005 from Lovells, has left the firm for Mishcon de Reya. Levy joins Mishcons on 3 July to launch the firm’s property litigation team. The...