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Lex Machina - a LexisNexis company - has expanded its Legal Analytics platform into commercial law in efforts to expand the tool beyond patent, trademark, copyright, securities, and antitrust law and to cover every federal practice area. | 9yrs

Lambda Legal, an LGBT legal advocacy group, is to open a Washington DC office in a move to intensify its work against the Trump administration and increase fundraising. | 9yrs

Whilst most would refuse to take advice from a robot for complex cases, one in five British people would put their faith in an automated, robotic service - such as a chatbot - to provide simple legal advice. | 9yrs

A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 9yrs

A group of associations have got together to draft new proposals for leasehold reform in the UK. | 9yrs

The SEC has been increasingly lowering the threshold for bribery cases with the risk of bribery now deemed a violation. | 9yrs

The recent reform of the UK Unjustified Threats Regime brings clarity to the law but is it enough, ask Peter Damerell and Rajvinder Jagdev of Powell Gilbert. | 9yrs

The number of women hired for general counsel jobs in Fortune 500 companies has jumped dramatically in the last five years. | 9yrs

Canadian chief legal officers are under-exploiting technology, missing out on opportunities to make their departments more efficient, research by Deloittes has revealed. | 9yrs

LawBot X is launching in July in seven countries with the new platform hosted on Facebook messenger and was founded by four Cambridge law students. | 9yrs

Orrick has announced several enhancements to the ways the firm supports lawyers and staff who are parents including a contribution to a college fund for children of employees. | 9yrs

Kap-You KIM, a senior partner at Bae, Kim & Lee, has been appointed to head up the Korean organisation. | 9yrs

Cloud-based legal practicemanagement software leader Clio has launched The Reismans - an inaugural programme set up to recognise clients who demonstrate law firm excellence and innovation. | 9yrs

Kim Talus, a European scholar of energy law, has been named the inaugural holder of the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane University Law School. | 9yrs

Firms licensing as alternative business structures have not taken advantage of private equity, with an inability to present the information to investors as one reason given. | 9yrs

Law firms are still failing to meet client expectations from fees to technology, according to new research. | 9yrs

The firm has appointed finance partners Mark Wesseldine and Fergus Wheeler in London. | 9yrs

Legal risks whilst investing in India was top of the agenda whilst a review of the law was also explored. | 9yrs

Texas has signed into law House Bill 45, known as American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) prohibiting the use of any foreign law in the state's courts, specifically in family cases that involve marriage or parent-child relationship matters. | 9yrs