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Changes to pensions and employment contracts will likely see partners staying put in their firm for longer, creating a traffic jam for younger lawyers on their way to the top. | 10yrs

International law firm Milbank is redirecting a $1 million gift to Harvard Law School after funds for the donation were used to sponsor a discussion hosted by the university's Justice for Palestine group. | 10yrs

India is in no hurry to liberalise its legal services market as each bar council is included in a consultation. | 10yrs

The merged Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co and Canadian firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson, to be known as Gowling WLG, is launching today with the new firm's international board also finally announced. | 10yrs

Lawyers will be stretched to deliver more if they are under-utilising technology. | 10yrs

King & Wood Mallesons will hold off on naming a new EMEA managing partner until after the completion of a 'divisional restructure' which is set to slash the firm's practice groups in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. | 10yrs

Donald Trump's support for his eldest sister Maryanne Trump Barry, a senior judge, has ruffled the feathers of fellow Republican nomination hopeful Ted Cruz. | 10yrs

As UK Prime Minister David Cameron sets the nation's referendum on EU membership for June 23, Justice Secretary Michael Gove comes out as one of a handful of Tory politicians advocating for Britain to part ways with the EU. | 10yrs

Therium Capital Management is set to become the latest in a suite of funders looking towards alternative business structures to provide funding for claims in the United Kingdom. | 10yrs

Two men who avoided jail times after being convicted of dealing cannabis are now facing the prospect of new sentences after making sexual jibes about a judge on Facebook. | 10yrs

King & Spalding's London office is advising the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Ghana's national oil company, on its US$550 million pathfinder liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, the first such project to be implemented in the region. | 10yrs

The legal profession's 'diversity problem' will only get worse if a centrally-assessed Solicitors Qualifying Exam is introduced, Chancery Lane has argued. | 10yrs

Sir Nigel Knowles, the man behind global law firm DLA Piper, is to step down whilst Allen & Overy's partnership have elected current managing partner Wim Dejonghe as the firm's new senior partner to replace David Morley. | 10yrs

City-based lawyers from two US firms have been selected by Russia and Ukraine to handle a $3bn bond dispute headed to London's newly-created High Court financial list. | 10yrs

Attorney General Githu Muigai has announced that Kenya will review the laws and regulations surrounding Islamic finance in the country to facilitate the issuance of the country's first ever Islamic-law compliant bond, known as a sukuk. | 10yrs

Both firms have announced that they will keep on 100 per cent of their trainee lawyers as the City's stellar retention round continues. | 10yrs

A prominent Oregon-based lawyer who agreed to pay a $140,000 settlement to a former colleague is now demanding a refund, filing a suit which claims the woman violated a non-disclosure agreement. | 10yrs

The firm has announced that it will grow the number of lawyers it has on the ground in Johannesburg to 20 by the end of this year, pushing closer to 50 by the close of 2017. | 10yrs

The judge accused prominent Nigerian lawyer Rickey Tarfa of 'harassment and intimidation' after he arrived to face criminal charges in a Lagos court with 90 lawyers. | 10yrs