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The US firm's move is a boost to its London office which opened up last year by acquiring transportation firm Clark Ricketts. | 9yrs

Tech giant Yahoo has named a new general counsel less than two weeks after Ronald Bell resigned from his position after it was found that the company's legal team failed to sufficiently investigate a serious data breach in 2014. | 9yrs

Eversheds Sutherland's consulting arm has launched a matter lifecycle management solution for legal teams powered by Repstor called ES/Unity. | 9yrs

Sherika Ponniah has launched My Legal marketplace as she believes more women than men have been graduating with law degrees for decades, but the numbers don't add up when it comes to the number of female partners and leaders in large law firms. | 9yrs

Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA) has opened a new office in Singapore and added Ashish Raivadera to the partner practice group as head of private practice for South Asia. He will also lead operations in Singapore. | 9yrs

The Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly members are meeting privately in a bid to reach a compromise on the hotly debated controversial Legal Practitioners Bill. | 9yrs

Lawyers, real estate agents and accountants are set to face tougher anti-money-laundering rules under a bill introduced to Parliament in New Zealand. | 9yrs

Women came out on top in case they took against a vibrator manufacturer after they realised highly personal data was being gathered via its mobile app regarding customer product use including date and time of each use and selected vibration settings. | 9yrs

McDermott Will & Emery has announced that it will close its Rome office in September with the firm's Milan office to take centre stage for its footprint in Italy and the region. | 9yrs

Therium Group is launching operations in Germany making it the country's first full service litigation funder. | 9yrs

US Attorney Preet Bharara revealed at the weekend that he had been fired, one day after the Justice Department asked him and 45 other Obama-time federal prosecutors to resign. | 9yrs

US litigation firm Boies Schiller & Flexner has hired Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) global head of public international law Dominic Roughton for its London office. | 9yrs

A 130-year-old Scottish law firm, Graham and Finlayson, is set to shut as its senior partner announces his retirement after 50 years as a solicitor. | 9yrs

The Irish claims agency paid some €37 million to legal representatives in negligence cases last year. Two firms did particularly well receiving at least €5 million each from the State Claims Agency. | 9yrs

Bryan Cave has set up a tech-savvy team from its offices around the world to cut through what it calls the 'hype' surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in law firms. | 9yrs

Joshua Browder donned his DoNotPay technology 'the world's first robot lawyer' and, while originally designed to help people get out of paying parking or speeding tickets, it has been adapted to give free legal advice to refugees. | 9yrs

One lawyer seemed to take making a point to the jury a little far when his trousers mysteriously caught fire during his closing arguments in an arson case. | 9yrs

Harvard Law School is scrapping the LSAT entry test after 70 years and, from the autumn, applicants may submit their scores from either the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Law School Admission Test. | 9yrs

Linklaters has teamed up with city tech start-up Eigen Technologies to launch an AI-backed data analysis and extraction tool in order to achieve 'a level of flexibility' not currently available on the marketplace. | 9yrs