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May 07 2012
CMS Cameron McKenna has ended its relationship with BPP Law School, and will be sending its trainees to the College of Law for their Legal Practice Course, which is an...
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Dec 04 2011
CMS Cameron McKenna took £106m in revenue in the first half of this financial year, up 5 per cent on the same period last year.
In a statement managing partner...
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Nov 21 2011
The pharmaceutical market in Emerging Europe is clearly facing a need for realignment with pressing issues of reduced health care expenditure, governmental cost...
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May 31 2011
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has bolstered its corporate insurance practice with the hire of former CMS Cameron McKenna partner Peter Hill in the capacity as a...
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Apr 19 2011
The CMS Cameron McKenna network has reached Albania after its Italian outlet, CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni, hired a nine-lawyer team from Eversheds...
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Mar 29 2011
CMS Cameron McKenna has elected Dick Tyler as its next senior partner in a partnership vote. The vote went to a third round between Tyler and consumer products head...
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Mar 22 2011
CMS Cameron McKenna has entered the first voting round to elect a new senior partner, with four candidates in the running.
The favorites for the role are managing...
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Mar 03 2011
Trainee retention rates at the 30 largest firms in the UK are up 10 per cent on last year’s figures,
84% of qualifying trainees were offered jobs this year and 83...
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Feb 10 2011
Four partners at CMS Cameron McKenna have been asked to leave, and several additional partners have been moved down the firm’s equity ladder as result of a...
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Jan 31 2011
CMS Cameron McKenna is taking the shears to its support staff after concluding a deal with outsourcing company Integreon. A third of the staff face redundancy or...
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Jan 24 2011
When firms miscalculate their staffing needs or wish to cut costs, it is often the newly qualified lawyers – those at the end of their trainee program – that suffer...
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Dec 21 2010
A four-partner litigation team is set to leave CMS Cameron McKenna to join White & Case, according to reports. The group is led by Polish dispute resolution head Pawel...
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Dec 10 2010
Reports have emerged that CMS Cameron McKenna is taking the shears to its partnership, with a small number of partners being made redundant and a large number being...
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Nov 29 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna has has announced that only 19 of the 30 trainees in its London base will be offered an NQ role with the firm. Of these 19 jobs, three are offered...
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Nov 23 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna's partners have approved plans to outsource legal support services to Integreon. The plan provides that Integreon set up operations within the...
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Nov 22 2010
The Evening Standard has launched a new initiative called the London Living Wage Scheme, which encourages firms and companies to guarantee staff a minimum rate of pay...
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Aug 09 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna has launched a new billing concept under which clients can pay what they think the legal services are worth.
The firm has notified 3,500...
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Jul 23 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna and Sullivan & Cromwell have scored leading roles in BP's $7 billion asset sale to Houston-based Apache. The sale of oil and gas assets in Canada,...
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Jun 22 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna has announced the adoption of a merit-based system for calculating pay, jettisoning the lockstep model.
The new system – to come into effect...
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May 14 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna has concluded a deal outsource its entire business support function – including IT, HR, finance, business development, communications, knowledge...
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Apr 30 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna has promoted four lawyers to equity partnership. The four new equity partners are all drawn from the ‘gateway’ partner rank – an intermediate rank...
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Apr 14 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna has recruited a team of seven private equity lawyers who were formerly part of Linklaters CEE ‘flying squad’ – a group that handled private equity...
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Mar 22 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna is poised to launch a new software system which provides associates with discussion points for use when wining and dining clients.
The system...
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Feb 13 2010
Denton Wilde Sapte has announced it will be keeping on just one out of the seven trainees due to qualify in March.
According to data by Rollonfriday.com, the firm...
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Jan 07 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna and its alliance partners, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in France and CMS Hasche Sigle in Germany, will open a merged Shanghai office next month....
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Nov 16 2009
City managing partners are warning that ditching associate locksteps as the job market shows signs of recovery could be harmful. Many firms are gearing up to revamp...
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Sep 04 2009
Magic circle law firms -- Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Slaughter and May -- saw promotions fall by an average of 41...
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Aug 31 2009
UK law firm CMS Cameron McKenna is offering 21 out of 30 newly-qualified trainees jobs as associates, a retention rate that places the firm largely in line with its...
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Jul 24 2009
UK law firms CMS Cameron McKenna, Eversheds and Simmons & Simmons have launched reviews expected to usher in merit-driven compensation for associates, reports legalweek.
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Jun 26 2009
CMS Cameron McKenna has completed its redundancy talks, laying off 73 London staff, reports legalweek.com.
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May 23 2009
CMS Cameron McKenna has become the first major UK law firm to announce its 2008-09 results with the firm seeing profits down 15% along with a marginal increase in...
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May 06 2009
CMS Cameron McKenna has announced that up to 20 fee earners and 60 non fee earner positions in London are likely to go as a part of a redundancy consultation.
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Apr 14 2009
UK firm CMS Cameron McKenna has asked its trainees to volunteer to delay their start dates by up to one year, potentially extending into 2011. The firm has offered a...
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Apr 14 2009
16 partners at UK firm CMS Cameron McKenna have agreed to accept "fixed-share" status, meaning that they will receive a fixed rather than a variable share of the...
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Feb 25 2009
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP has been appointed to advise Vantis plc receivers to two Antiguan companies in Sir Allen Stanford’s group of businesses.
The US Securities...
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Nov 07 2008
City law firms look set to tough out the gloomy market with Lovells, Norton Rose, Trowers & Hamlins and CMS Cameron McKenna all expecting double-digit revenue growth...
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