Kennedys has picked up a five-strong team from rival Mayer Brown in London as it further boosts its global insurance offering. | 8yrs
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Pamela Thompson will replace veteran chair Paul Smith and will serve for a four year term. | 8yrs
Andersen Global is collaborating with Tanzanian legal and tax firm East African Law Chambers in a move which sees the association's fifth location in Africa. | 8yrs
Legal departments play a vital role in linking ethics and compliance, according to a recent report. | 8yrs
Corporate law departments are increasing compensation across all lawyer levels as more work moves in-house, according to HBR Consulting's 2017 Law Department Survey. | 8yrs
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has promoted new partners across its 12 offices. | 8yrs
A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 8yrs
Managing eDiscovery in the age of distributed data, mobile devices and explosive data growth is complicated. But companies can take steps to minimise their data, cutting costs and making litigation more efficient, says Peter Ostrega of Consili. | 8yrs
The Big Four firm has lost its head of private client immigration to Fladgate as it seeks to grow its immigration practice as Brexit approaches. | 8yrs
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison have elected five new partners in New York and London. | 8yrs
Jersey residents need greater protection from lawyers charging extortionate fees after it was discovered a Jersey advocate was charging £1015 per hour and the client faced insurmountable difficulties querying the figure. | 8yrs
Legal process outsourcer UnitedLex has been selected by DXC Technology to lead a global law function transformation. | 8yrs
Following failed merger talks, Pinsent Masons recruited lawyers from the Spanish law firm. | 8yrs
CMS is looking to develop its expertise in the capital markets and derivatives field, particularly securitisation. | 8yrs
Two SME UK firms have merged to grow their practices aggressively in the next five years. | 8yrs
The reputation boutique has opened a new office, launched an international consultancy arm and unveiled aggressive growth plans as it targets social media giants. | 8yrs
Sydney-based Tricia Hobson will replace Stephen Parish as the law firm's first female global chair. | 8yrs
As global organisations' legal needs increase, corporate law departments are adopting more innovative practices to better control outside counsel costs says a new report whose participant base primarily includes Fortune 500 level companies. | 8yrs
A UK Campaign group is taking Google to court in a £1 billion mass action alleging the tech giant unlawfully collected information from Apple's iPhone handsets. | 8yrs
Minority lawyers now make up a record high of 16 per cent of law firms but remain few and far between at the top with only 9 per cent of law partners people of colour, according to data from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. | 8yrs