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The firm is adding an innovative new legal video game to the arsenal of assessment tools it uses to uncover the best and brightest aspiring trainees. | 9yrs

King & Wood Mallesons is suing Goodwin Procter in the High Court over the latter firm's hire of a six-partner private equity team from KWM Paris earlier this year. | 9yrs

Combined revenues across law firms in the United Kingdom has cracked £20bn this year for the first time in history, but growth has been less dispersed than in 2015. | 9yrs

As many as 93 per cent of AMLaw 100 firms have encountered problems with bullying among their ranks - with high-earners the most likely perpetrators. | 9yrs

New research has uncovered a modest increase in average remuneration for private practice lawyers in Australia this year. | 9yrs

US law schools that fail to produce enough lawyers could find their ABA accreditation at risk under proposed new rules. | 9yrs

British American Tobacco (BAT) has instructed Cravath Swaine & Moore and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) to advise on its £38.4bn merger proposal with the owner of Camel cigarettes. | 9yrs

Flailing Republican candidate Donald Trump promises that the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling will be overturned 'automatically' if he is empowered to make appointments to the nation's Supreme Court. | 9yrs

London-based financial regulation specialist Nick Bradbury will be joining Allen & Overy in early 2017. | 9yrs

The firm's planned tie-up with CMS Cameron McKenna and Olswang will see it lose its seat in the five-firm Broadlaw Group alliance. | 9yrs

A man accused of stealing £3,000 worth of stationery from the Magic Circle firm has been barred from working within the legal industry. | 9yrs

A major survey of law firm partners in the US has revealed a significant rise in compensation in the past two years. | 9yrs

The planned listing of Chinese logistics company ZTO Express on the New York Stock Exchange is set to become the most lucrative IPO from a Chinese company since the listing of Alibaba. | 9yrs

Litigation funders Burford Capital and Woodsford Litigation Funding say they plan to invest in UK-based law firms that are allowed to have non-lawyer owners. | 9yrs

It is looking increasingly likely that Britain's decision to exit the European Union will be subject to a vote in Parliament before Article 50 is triggered. | 9yrs

Hinshaw & Culbertson, which last year hired Dewey & LeBoeuf's former general counsel, is launching what may be the first practice aimed at consulting other law firms on managing their business. | 9yrs

Global megafirm Dentons' planned tie-up with Australian firm Gadens has hit yet another stumbling block. | 9yrs

The 20-year-old student entrepreneur whose robot lawyer has successfully defeated millions of dollars in parking tickets is working on a free tool that will enable law firms to build their own robot lawyers. | 9yrs

Up to 500 jobs could be at stake as CMS Cameron McKenna, Nabarro and Olswang behind reviews of overlapping business services roles ahead of their three-way merger. | 9yrs