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Shaping the market

12 September 2013
Issue: 7575 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Boutique and US firms gaining market share

Boutique firms, particularly litigation specialists, and smaller US law firms are capturing market share from the more long-standing London firms, according to the biannual Robert Walters market update. This is because they can cherry-pick the best candidates by offering higher salaries and more responsibility. By comparison, many UK law firms have been forced to restructure or make redundancies.

Recruitment levels have increased for both private practice and in-house positions in real estate finance, banking, corporate and capital markets.

Salaries are rising in London, and the upward trend across the sector looks likely to continue in the second half of 2013, Robert Walters found.

Issue: 7575 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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