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<title>US Law Firms Look Abroad For Deal Activity</title>
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Transactions may be down in the US, but overseas M&A work is booming and US law firms are increasingly mining the lucrative overseas markets to weather the downturn at home.

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<title>Slaughter And May - "There's Only Room For One"</title>
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After last year’s record-breaking profits at all the UK “magic circle” firms — Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters — it was Slaughter and May that emerged as clear winners in profitability. But there's only room for one.]]>
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<title>Deals Down By A Third Among World's Biggest Law Firms</title>
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Data released Thursday shows that U.K. and U.S. firms touched a third fewer M&A deals in the first quarter of 2008 than a year earlier with the credit crunch slamming firms in M&A and LBO work.]]>
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<title>Law Firm Mergers Hold Steady, Firm Reports</title>
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The pace of law firm mergers are holding steady, according to legal consultancy Altman Weil Inc. There were 17 new law firm mergers and acquisitions reported in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2008.]]>
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<title>Death-By-Conspiracy Theory On Princess Diana Thrown Out</title>
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The decade-long conspiracy theory that Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were murdered by MI6 on the orders of the Duke of Edinburgh was finally and comprehensively dismissed yesterday. ]]>
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<title>White House Handed Legal Victory Over US Attorney Firings</title>
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A federal judge has handed the White House a legal victory in battle with the Democratic National Committee over e-mails related to U.S. attorney firings.]]>
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<title>Bear Stearns Bargain Basement Sale Brings Out The Big Legal Guns</title>
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The bargain-basement sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase brought out some of the biggest names in the legal profession. Only recently the mega-firm generated rich billings for lawyers.]]>
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<title>Equity Funds Target Law Firms</title>
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A mid-market private equity fund with £255 million to spend has become the first investment house to say it is actively targeting the legal sector ahead of radical changes that will allow law firms to take on outside investment for the first time. ]]>
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Just as Kenya’s electoral crisis eases, a battle is brewing over a deeply flawed and highly contested election in another fractious, ethnically and religiously divided African nation, Nigeria.]]>
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<title>Two Lawyers Disbarred Over Family Fortune Fight</title>
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Two lawyers were disbarred today by Massachusett's highest court, which ruled that the attorneys violated ethical rules when they tried to find evidence of bias against a former Superior Court judge who was then presiding over the bitter and costly family fight for control of the billion-dollar Demoulas supermarket company.]]>
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