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• Baker McKenzie breaks $2bn mark with 20% revenue growth

  Aug 18 2008 Baker McKenzie has posted revenues of $2.19bn, up from last year’s total of $1.82bn. Firmwide profits per partner have also seen double-digit growth from last year,... more

• Merger talks between Heller Ehrman and Baker & McKenzie fail

  Aug 13 2008 Following months of speculation and rumours, merger talks between Heller Ehrman and Baker & McKenzie have been called off. Heller chairman Matthew Larrabee cited... more

• Heller Ehrman hires DLA Piper IP partner for London office

  Aug 04 2008 Heller Ehrman has recruited IP partner Richard Penfold from DLA Piper to boost its year-old London office as speculation over an impending merger with Baker & McKenzie... more

• Women Lawyers Form Coalition on Recruitment, Retention Issues

  Jul 25 2008 Women lawyers in Chicago have come together from 31 law firms to form a new coalition that will seek to collaborate on supporting the recruitment, retention and... more

• Success for Baker and McKenzie: Scots boy must give up Narnia website

  Jul 25 2008 Baker & McKenzie has prevailed over a Scottish family in a fight over the narnia.mobi domain name, after a decision from the World Intellectual Property Organisation... more

• Baker & McKenzie raises City pay and makes promotions

  Jul 03 2008 Baker & McKenzie has given modest pay rises to associates at most levels at the same time as promoting six to its partnership. Newly qualified lawyers will earn... more

• Baker McKenzie fails to follow its own advice in Narnia saga

  Jun 24 2008 Bakers has come under fire during the past week for its aggressive pursuit of Richard Saville-Smith, who claims he and his wife bought the narnia.mobi domain name as a... more

• Baker & McKenzie vs 11-year old in Narnia IP row

  Jun 17 2008 A couple from Edinburgh is being threatened with a law suit by Baker & McKenzie over their son’s 11th birthday present. Gillian Ferguson and Richard Saville-Smith... more

• A law career in Vietnam - Oliver Massmann heads Duane Morris' Hanoi Office

  Jun 15 2008 Oliver Massmann, 41, is head of the Hanoi office of Duane Morris, a 650-lawyer Philadelphia firm seeking to grow in Southeast Asia with offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi... more

• Bakers elects new Paris chief Fabre

  Jun 11 2008 Baker & McKenzie has elected a new managing partner for its Paris office, with Regis Fabre stepping into the role from 1 July for a two-year term. The competition... more

• Former Baker & McKenzie lawyer accused of $1.3million theft

  Jun 02 2008 An ex-Baker & McKenzie associate has been arrested on suspicion of stealing $1.3million from a client's account. Martin Weisberg, a former securities lawyer at the... more

• BPP bags Baker & McKenzie’s training head

  May 31 2008 BPP College of Professional Studies has bagged Baker & McKenzie’s director of learning and development Colin Dworkin to co-ordinate its tailored in-house education... more

• Large law firms hire from select schools

  Apr 23 2008 Columbia Law School in New York City and Northwestern Law School in Chicago are the most frequently recruited schools by the nation’s largest law firms, which offer... more

• Baker & McKenzie Represents TD Banknorth and WestLB in Financing of Ethanol Biorefinery in Pennsylvania

  Feb 25 2008 TD Banknorth and WestLB Arrange $205 Million of Senior Debt Financing for First Ethanol Plant in Pennsylvania and First to be Financed with a Long-Term Ethanol Offtake... more

• Baker & McKenzie Assists in Latin American Refinancing Deal of the Year

  Feb 17 2008 Chicago, February 14, 2008 – Project Finance Magazine, a Euromoney publication, in its February 2008 issue has selected the recent bond refinancing by the Panama Canal... more

• Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie develop €3bn bond plan for OTP Bank

  Feb 04 2008 Allen & Overy (A&O) and Baker & McKenzie have been hired to develop a €3bn covered bond programme for Hungarian lender OTP Mortgage Bank. The placing is being arranged... more

• Elite US firms struggle to attract senior partner hires in the City

  Feb 01 2008 Lateral partner hires among elite US firms in London have slowed during the last year, according to research from Legal Week, which illustrates the uphill struggle... more

• Baker & McKenzie Establishes Tokyo Antitrust Group

  Jan 27 2008 Baker & McKenzie has formed an antitrust practice group in Tokyo made up of attorneys in its office there, building on the firm's worldwide antitrust services. The... more

• Firms Hungry for More Lawyers in Russia

  Jan 06 2008 Although Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has been in Moscow since 1992, its office in the Russian capital is still rather modest. Around 30 attorneys handle a... more

• Freshfields Frankfurt partner defects to Bakers

  Dec 13 2007 A further corporate partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's German operation has left the magic circle firm, surfacing at Baker & McKenzie. Frankfurt-based... more

• Companies Dissatisfied With Their Law Firms, Survey Shows

  Nov 30 2007 The most striking finding of the BTI Consulting Group's recently released national Survey of Client Service Performance for Law Firms is the relatively small number... more

• NLJ 250 shows growth spurt for law firms - Baker & McKenzie knocked out of the top spot

  Nov 12 2007 The results of the 2007 NLJ 250, The National Law Journal's 30th annual survey of the nation's largest law firms, show that a total of 128,213 attorneys worked at... more