A new taxable income study from the Australian National University has measured the gender pay gap among Australian barristers at a staggering 184 per cent. | 10yrs
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Several firms have extended the pay raise wave currently sweeping through New York to their lawyers in Asia. | 10yrs
The UK's largest law firms achieved an average increase in fee income of 6 per cent in the final quarter of the financial year ended 30 April 2016 compared with the same period last year. | 10yrs
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati both scored key roles on Microsoft's $26.6bn acquisition of LinkedIn, confirmed yesterday. | 10yrs
City of London Law Society chairman Alasdair Douglas is stepping down after five years in the role. | 10yrs
Professional services giant PwC has boosted its Australian operation with the addition of five new senior partners to its legal services team. | 10yrs
Doughty Street Chambers barrister Tunde Okewale was awarded an MBE on the Queen's Birthday Honours list for his considerable work advancing social equity and access to justice in London. | 10yrs
The Legal Ombudsman has today published its annual name-and-shame list, revealing it received complaints about 1,673 firms and individuals during the last financial year. | 10yrs
A round-up of moves across the UK. | 10yrs
After more than six years of litigation in New York and London, Terra Firma Capital Partners has withdrawn its £2.3bn claim against Citigroup just days after the trial started at London's High Court. | 10yrs
Data professionals working in law firms are far more concerned about careless staff accidentally clicking on a bad link than they are about the prospect of hackers or malicious internal leaks. | 10yrs
Later this week, the US Supreme Court is scheduled to review the ban on the ownership of military-style firearms in Connecticut, just days after one such firearm was used to murder at least 50 people in an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. | 10yrs
A partner from the office of Mayer Brown has been chosen as the new President of the Law Society of Hong Kong. | 10yrs
Two of the world's largest food manufacturers have been in court in Sweden over a dispute involving chocolate-covered peanuts. | 10yrs
CMS has reported its financials for 2015/16, with turnover rising 8.4 per cent year-on-year to £735.2m. | 10yrs
Dentons' legal tech venture development platform Nextlaw Labs has partnered with funding firm Seedcamp to co-sponsor a global call to early stage legal tech startups. | 10yrs
The Bar Council has warned that leaving the EU would be 'extremely complex' for the United Kingdom. | 10yrs
A recent survey found that more than half of partners predict lawyer redundancies at major UK law firms this year. | 10yrs
Both firms have announced their intention to join the fast growing '$180k club', with Kirkland extending the good news to its UK-based associates. | 10yrs
The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has named Singapore as Asia's number one go-to arbitration hub for the fifth year running. | 10yrs