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PwC has hired a manager from Axiom to continue growing its commercial contracting division. | 9yrs

Bishop & Sewell will take over the family firm as part of its expansion strategy creating a £9 million business. | 9yrs

Professor Richard Susskind has highlighted the gap between innovation, law firm leaders, law schools and the pace of change. | 9yrs

Business is booming in Australia but there are clouds on the horizen, law firms report in the latest bank research. | 9yrs

The firm has appointed Kannan Rahul as a banking and finance partner in its Mumbai office. | 9yrs

A diverse mix of innovative legal professionals have been recognised in the Australian innovators index. | 9yrs

Law departments are calling on law firms to innovate but are law firms listening? Research would suggest that collaboration between the two has some distance to go. | 9yrs

Hill Dickinson is looking at transferring part of its insurance division worth £23m to Keoghs. | 9yrs

Miller & Chevalier will now represent Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign manager, in the Russian investigation. | 9yrs

Only politicians and estate agents are viewed as more unethical than lawyers in an annual governance poll. | 9yrs

The team investigating possible collusion between Russia and the President Trump's election campaign were high earners at their law firms. | 9yrs

Popular US lawyer rating service Avvo has met with disapproval from the New York Bar Association over its 'marketing' fee. | 9yrs

Washington's WilmerHale and Boston's Foley Hoag are involved in the lawsuit against President Trump and the military. | 9yrs

Lawyers are now subject to prosecution by the UK government if they do not comply with sanctions reporting obligations. | 9yrs

If a cursory glimpse at the headline news over the last few months hasn't been enough to crush your spirit, try typing 'women/work' into Google and brace yourself for a slew of discouraging statistics. | 9yrs

A number of Dewey ex-partners have written to a New York judge asking that their former chief financial officer Joel Sanders be spared a jail sentence. | 9yrs

Data risk has risen to the top of the agenda for many general counsel, research for the GC Futures Summit has revealed. | 9yrs

Chinese outbound investment to reach $1.5 trillion over next 10 years, despite increasing regulatory scrutiny. | 9yrs

New proposals from the UK financial regulatory have still not clarified whether corporate counsel in financial institutions will have to answer to the Financial Conduct Authority. | 9yrs