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A suicide bomb attack in Quetta on Monday that targeted a group of mourning lawyers has sparked court boycotts across the country as lawyers call on the Pakistani government to protect their safety. | 10yrs

Lloyds Banking Group has begun a review of its core UK legal panel, with the results expected by the end of September. | 10yrs

The Labour MP's investigation into bias and representation in the criminal justice system will put diversity at the bench under the microscope. | 10yrs

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) has launched a 12-month pilot arbitration scheme involving 20 publications, among them the Daily Mail and The Times. | 10yrs

The firm is keeping on 100 per cent of its qualifying trainees. | 10yrs

The UK's prospective withdrawal from the EU means that more claimants may commence proceedings in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) while it is clear that EU law still applies in the UK, according to law firm Pinsent Masons. | 10yrs

Litigation funder Burford Capital has tapped former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson competition head Craig Arnott to become its new managing director. | 10yrs

More than 75 people have been killed in Pakistan in an attack on a hospital where more than 100 lawyers and other civilians had gathered to mourn the death of a prominent local lawyer. | 10yrs

Several controversial proposals to boost diversity in the profession are to be considered at a meeting of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates this week. | 10yrs

Revenue and profit have both slumped during chief executive Paul Stevens' first year at the helm of Olswang. | 10yrs

The firm is beginning to rebuild in the French capital after losing a renowned six-partner private equity team to Goodwin Procter in March. | 10yrs

The Magic Circle firm is keeping on all but two of its 42 qualifying trainees. | 10yrs

Simmons & Simmons head of intellectual property Marc Döring is the latest partner to exit the firm's IP practice. | 10yrs

In the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU, Addleshaw Goddard and Gowling WLG have frozen their August salary reviews until the autumn. | 10yrs

A study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine has suggested that as many as one in five lawyers may have a 'harmful, hazardous' and potentially dependent relationship with alcohol. | 10yrs

Phil Shiner, who rose to prominence for representing Iraqis in abuse cases against the British military, will be fighting off a criminal inquiry by legal regulators. | 10yrs

Simmons & Simmons is making redundancies in its London office as a result of the UK's vote to leave the EU, the first major firm in the City known to have done so. | 10yrs

The US litigation boutique has hired Covington & Burling corporate investigations and white collar crime partner Robert Amaee to launch the new practice next month. | 10yrs

Clifford Chance has hired two new partners for its New York office from Chadbourne & Parke and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). | 10yrs