Facebook has claimed a new German law that would force social media companies to pay up to €50 million if they fail to remove hate speech and false news would encourage tech companies to delete legal content in order to avoid fines. | 9yrs
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Hogan Lovells has boosted pay for its junior lawyers by five per cent with the newly qualified now receiving £75,000 per year. | 9yrs
Brussels is preparing to crack down on lawyers and accountants running tax-avoidance schemes for clients. | 9yrs
With fines set to escalate, companies need to ensure data compliance for the new regime next May. | 9yrs
Brexit is impacting trademark strategies with companies filing more UK trademarks. | 9yrs
The professional convergence revolution may be putting too high a burden on the new breed of super general counsel. | 9yrs
A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 9yrs
Osborne Clarke has promoted six lawyers to partner - four in Bristol, one in London and one in Cologne - only one of which is female. | 9yrs
The official tie-up between Scotland's HBJ Gateley and England's Addleshaw Goddard will this week create the UK's 13th largest law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers across 11 offices. | 9yrs
Langlois lawyers has announced that Annie Gallant has joined the firm's litigation group in its Montreal office. | 9yrs
Legal and General is the latest financial services company to opt for Dublin for part of its investment management operations. | 9yrs
A prominent United Arab Emirates lawyer who was sentenced to 10 years for plotting against the government whas been awarded a major human rights award. | 9yrs
A lawsuit filed in US District Court claims that an unknown person or group held a US law firm captive for months by encrypting its files and then demanding $25,000 in ransom paid in anonymous cyber currency to restore access. | 9yrs
GCs must become mini-CEOs of their legal organisations if they are to succeed in addressing the exponential changes in the legal marketplace, says Pearson GC Bjarne Tellmann. | 9yrs
Bombardier and Triumph have reached an undisclosed settlement some five months after the US aerospace supplier filed a $455 million lawsuit against the Quebec-based aircraft manufacturer. | 9yrs
More than 400 lawyers descended on Belfast for the International Bar Association's Bar Leaders' conference and mid-year meetings. | 9yrs
Dentons is continuing its ambitious expansion into Latin America with plans afoot to form a combination with Gallo Barrios Pickmann in Peru. | 9yrs
So far 93 law firms have come forward to offer their services for free to victims of the Manchester terror attack with Manchester Law Society co-ordinating a pro bono advice rota. | 9yrs
Consumers place higher expectations on businesses to protect their personal information and update response plans | 9yrs
US organisations are spending dramatically more on legal services per every dollar of revenue than peers around the world - and the Chinese the least by a huge margin. | 9yrs