A round-up of recent moves from across Europe. | 8yrs

Squire Patton Boggs has announced that the 1,500-attorney firm is merging with a 50-lawyer boutique headquartered in San Francisco. | 8yrs

Healthcare and employment law firm Epstein Becker & Green is expanding its consulting arm with two healthcare and human resources specialists, while Orrick has added seven partners to its office in Houston, Texas. | 8yrs

The now defunct law firm Dickstein Shapiro has told its equity partners - some of whom left as long as three years ago - that they won't be getting any capital back. | 8yrs

Olswang Asia is taking on a new managing partner, while Bird & Bird and White & Case associate Witara Cakra Advocates have made double partner hires. | 8yrs

In a first for the legal industry, LPO service provider QuisLex has announced the issuance of a US patent for its document review process. | 8yrs

Photographs of a New Zealand judge holidaying at a nudist camp have been removed from the resort's website after being used to promote it. | 8yrs

The IP practice of Clyde & Co is expanding its trade mark and patent filing capabilities in the Middle East with a new direct filing office in Muscat, Oman. | 8yrs

Nabarro, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Squire Patton Boggs have added to their ranks, while accounting firm PwC is developing its legal arm with a double partner hire. | 8yrs

Chelsea fan Clive O'Connell, a high-flying City lawyer, left law firm Goldberg Segalla after branding Liverpool FC fans 'scouse scum' during a hot-tempered YouTube interview and has since landed a new job at London law firm McCarthy Denning. | 8yrs

EY has hired Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co co-chair of technology Richard Goold as a partner to lead and grow a legal Tech team, as well as support the firm's wider Tech and FinTech practice. | 8yrs

According to authorities, a gunman fatally shot two people with whom he had business ties at a law firm and a nearby accountant's office in Hamilton in western Alabama on Wednesday morning. | 8yrs

The race for dominance among top commercial litigation financers continued this week, with UK-listed Burford Capital and Australia-listed Bentham IMF announcing that they are hiring Big Law veterans and expanding their operations in North America. | 8yrs

A new malware named T9000 that mimics e-Discovery applications and targets Skype users could be a big headache for legal professionals. | 8yrs

The latest Financial Benchmarking Survey from the Law Society shows that law firms in England and Wales continue to enjoy inflation-busting profits, but for a growing number excess drawings could compromise financial stability. | 8yrs

Documents filed in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases show the hourly fees charged by elite corporate law firms in the US are in some instances well over the $1,000 per hour mark. | 8yrs

Dentons has promoted three to partner in the UK, Middle East and Africa (UKMEA) in its global promotions round, while turnover in the region is up by 6.4 percent from £147.6m to £157m in 2014/15. | 8yrs

A new report reveals the emergence of a two-tier hierarchy of legal cities outside of London, with Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester at the top of the pile. | 8yrs

Ashurst is using a headhunter to find external non-lawyers to be considered for the role of global managing partner. | 8yrs

Reed Brodsky of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has been tapped to represent Kaye Scholer partner Evan Greebel, who was indicted in December alongside former Retrophin CEO Martin Shkreli. | 8yrs