In a survey by Crown Records Management, 70 percent of IT decision makers in the legal industry said their company have lost important data. | 7yrs

A Tennessee lawyer has been suspended after billing a client US$5,000 for research that turned out to be the watching of true crime programmes. | 7yrs

Hogan Lovells has announced Oliver J. Armas as the new managing partner of its New York office, while finance lawyer Rober Masman is to join the firm's global finance practice as a partner in the Amsterdam office. | 7yrs

Clifford Chance has announced that Jessica Gladstone is to join its London office as a partner. Ms Gladstone specialises in public and private international law, advising multinationals, financial institutions, foreign investors and sovereign states. | 7yrs

Lawyers for three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders accused of fraud have told a judge that they won't call any witnesses to bolster their defence and plan to rest their case when the jury returns on Tuesday. | 7yrs

Eight City firms have adopted a contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility among staff, after a government report criticised professional service firms for consistently excluding bright working-class applicants from their workforce. | 7yrs

Reed Smith has taken on Gregory Wang as a partner in Hong Kong from Morrison & Foerster, and two local partners in Singapore - Calvin Chan from Skadden and Kohe Hasan from Oon & Bazul - as it looks at gaining Singaporean local law capability. | 7yrs

Taylor Wessing has announced a merger with Dutch firm Deterink, in a move that will see the firm gain two new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. | 7yrs

News Corp has announced that Rebekah Brooks will return as head of its UK division after resigning over a tabloid phone hacking scandal, though it may face a new legal challenge from the Crown Prosecution Service. | 7yrs

According to a survey by the International Legal Technology Association and InsideLegal, security management has beaten email management as the biggest issue that legal IT departments must confront for the first time in eight years. | 7yrs

Cisco's lawyers at Winston & Strawn claim in a lawsuit that HP is refusing to pay a US$58 million balance. | 7yrs

The litigation boutique has announced it is opening in South Korea, and will relocate co-founder and partner Michael Kim to lead the new office. | 7yrs

A lawyer who worked at global firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher could face jail after an investigation by US federal agents into the alleged theft of US$5m from two law firms including Willkie, and MasterCard, one of its clients. | 7yrs

Mayer Brown announced that it has obtained formal approval from The Law Society of Hong Kong to form an association with leading PRC law firm Jingtian & Gongcheng in Hong Kong. | 7yrs

Paris-based luxury brand owner Kering has won a court order banning sales of counterfeit versions of its high-end goods by certain vendors in ecommerce company Alibaba Group's online marketplaces. | 7yrs

A criminal defence solicitor has argued that the public should focus on why technology companies are selling products and services unfit for purpose, rather than blaming hackers for the rise in cybercrime. | 7yrs

A weekly round up of moves around the globe. | 7yrs

The Supreme People's Court has established a research centre at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law to deal with legal affairs for the 'One Belt, One Road' foreign investment scheme. | 7yrs

Eversheds has appointed Charles Butcher as a partner in the firm's corporate practice in Hong Kong. Before joining Eversheds, he was a consultant at Hogan Lovells. | 7yrs

Research by the Law Society into the health and well-being of lawyers shows that the majority report they are in good health and on average take less time off sick, but also that nearly one fifth experience severe stress. | 7yrs