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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

Cisco's lawyers at Winston & Strawn claim in a lawsuit that HP is refusing to pay a US$58 million balance. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

A weekly round up of moves around the globe. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

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. | 8yrs

South African law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has appointed a new head of cross-border M&A for African and Asia, with the aim to focus on growth cities and the increasing diversification of African economies. | 8yrs

Southeast Asian law firm Tilleke and Gibbins has opened a new office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The office currently has four lawyers led by partner John E. King and will be supported by Tilleke's Bangkok team. | 8yrs

A report by Colin Scarlett of Colliers International shows how law firms are adapting their office space and business to improve the experience of their clients and lawyers and so remain competitive in an increasingly commoditised marketplace. | 8yrs

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has made the shocking statement that 30 per cent of all lawyers in India hold fraudulent law degrees. | 8yrs

A Bar Council report on the experience of female barristers has found that many feel the bar has changed for the better, but also feel pushed toward traditional 'women's practice areas' such as family and sex crime. | 8yrs