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National law firm Shoosmiths is planning to double its London headcount as part of a renewed focus on City operations. | 10yrs

The US-based firm grew turnover at its UK and Africa offices by an impressive 39 per cent during 2015. | 10yrs

A disciplinary tribunal has cleared the former legal manager at the News of the World, who was responsible for the tabloid's legal affairs at the height of the phone-hacking scandal, of professional misconduct. | 10yrs

Growing demand from clients has led to a bolstering of the Asia-Pacific practice at Goltsblat, the Russian practice of Berwin Leighton Paisner. | 10yrs

The robot lawyer made famous for helping to overturn millions of dollars' worth of parking tickets has now turned its talents to fighting evictions and lodging public housing claims. | 10yrs

Eversheds chief operating office and finance director Kathryn Fleming will be leaving the firm early next year after more than a decade. | 10yrs

King & Wood Mallesons has signed a debenture with key lender Barclays Bank that tightens the provisions around its borrowings. | 10yrs

The Scottish firm has attributed its lacklustre annual results to 'post-Brexit uncertainty'. | 10yrs

The pharmaceutical giant is offering full-salary and travel expenses for in-house lawyers who want to take time off to volunteer - even for months at a time. | 10yrs

Legal firms' call handling standards have come into question as the result of a major new study into telephone practice. | 10yrs

Professional rower Katherine Grainger's legal CV would be impressive enough without her five Olympic medals. | 10yrs

The law firm made notorious for pursuing claims against British troops on behalf of Iraqi claimants is reportedly closing its doors. | 10yrs

Turnover has slipped at DWF despite a string of international mergers and openings over the last year. | 10yrs

Vario, the legal resourcing arm of the firm, is looking to more than double the size of its operations team to service increased client demand. | 10yrs

Trowers & Hamlins is the latest firm to place a freeze on fee earners' pay in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU. | 10yrs

The UK arm of recently-merged Gowling WLG has posted essentially flat revenue and profits for the financial year 2015/16. | 10yrs

The Washington, DC-headquartered firm announced last week that it will accept payment in the digital currency known as Bitcoin. | 10yrs

The Kenyan High Court has affirmed that local human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, his client and his taxi driver were tortured and murdered at the hands of police in Nairobi. | 10yrs

The firm is reportedly looking to poach up to 14 partners from major rivals in Australia to kick off its own Melbourne office. | 10yrs