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Corporate scandals will only be avoided in Japan if general counsel get more respect from their companies. | 8yrs

The tie-up will strengthen the firm's Indonesian offering across a range of areas. | 8yrs

In a first, the London arm of the US firm was found to have lacked integrity in its conduct. | 8yrs

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

Law firms are missing out on work as legal departments rate their teams higher. | 8yrs

Companies negotiating with employment law firms get 11 per cent discount on average. | 8yrs

As the use of artificial intelligence systems expand, experts are calling for regulation to protect rights against machine decisions. | 8yrs

The beleaguered law firm says the information was the result of a sophisticated hack. | 8yrs

Women and minority lawyers are moving up the rung in New York law firms but white men still represent 77 per cent of equity partners. | 8yrs

Keith Wetmore hired over 100 lateral partners during his tenure running Morrison & Foerster. | 8yrs

With legal departments now competing for work with their erstwhile external advisors, the game has changed and law firms have to take a long hard look at their wares, says Terralex executive director Terri Pepper Gavulic. | 8yrs

African disputes should be settled in Africa and not in the boardroooms of Europe, says Evans Monari of Bowmans in Kenya. | 8yrs

Fieldfisher has partnered with Northern Ireland's DCL to create a range of alternative legal solutions and is also looking south to Dublin. | 8yrs

Attempts by businesses to block trade mark applications have hit a new high, part of the broader trend for businesses to more robustly defend their brands. | 8yrs

A greater demand for specialist services and more pressure to increase revenue has seen most law firms up their marketing and BD budgets. | 8yrs

DLA Piper has lost one of its top billers with the defection of global co-chair Juan Picón to Lathams. | 8yrs

Legal jobs will decline by 20 per cent as automation takes hold of the legal marketplace but productivity will grow. | 8yrs

Has legal professional privilege had a temporary reprieve in the recent ENRC judgment or is it the start of a reversal of fortunes, asks Ben Pilbrow. | 8yrs

The clock is ticking on plans to create a new London court if London is to remain a premier legal hub post-Brexit. | 8yrs