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Digital TV provider YouView has turned to Virgin Media for its new head of legal, pulling in Virgin’s assistant general counsel Toni Vitale for the chief role.

City lawyers from Slaughter and May, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, and Sullivan & Cromwell and have landed key roles on the IPO of UK estate agency Countrywide.

Hogan Lovells yesterday (19/02/13) reported the death of senior intellectual property partner David Latham.

The sole in-house legal advisor at Islam Channel TV has left to join Japanese gaming company Konami.

Clifford Chance has elected banking and finance group head Evan Cohen as the firm’s new Americas regional managing partner (RMP), with his four-year term set to begin on 1 May this year.

Shakespeares has appointed a new managing director to help the firm achieve its ambition of breaking the £50m turnover barrier.

The trial of a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher employee accused of making roughly £33,000 worth of false overtime claims has been delayed because the defendant is unwell.

Walker Morris has appointed James Powell as a consultant in its sports team, who previously a commercial director at Everton Football Club

White & Case has posted an increase in average profit per equity partner for the 2012 financial year.

According to Taylor Wessing ‘s consolidated accounts. profits at the firm increased by almost 20 per cent in the 2011/12 financial year.