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Barak Obama's Affordable Care Act has been praised in some areas for extending healthcare to more people but, in reality, some users say it does not help. | 10yrs

DLA Piper is in the process of transferring some of its administration, IT, finance, HR, marketing and IT processes to the new base, which opened at the start of this month. | 10yrs

The Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has conceded that the trial of three senior former executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf could have been dealt with better and will decide on the possibility of a retrial by 7 December. | 10yrs

The combined team will run to about 240 people coming from the two offices, which are just 45km apart. | 10yrs

The proportion of black associates has been falling every year for the last six, from 4.66 per cent in 2009 to 3.95 this year, according to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). | 10yrs

The Lord Chancellor has revealed that Ministry of Justice officials have met frontline legal services regulators to discuss the future of the profession. | 10yrs

A 46-year old lawyer from San Antonio has been charged with compelling prostitution over allegations that he pressured three clients to have sex with him in return for his legal advice and services. | 10yrs

In-house legal teams who are under budget pressure are increasingly briefing their barristers directly, according to the Association of Corporate Counsel in Australia and Asia Pacific. | 10yrs

The network, the world's largest alliance of HR law firms, has a team of 1,400 lawyers following the addition of Munita, Olavarría & Saez in Chile. | 10yrs

Paul Hastings has made what some consider to be its most important lateral hire in London through the recruitment of David Ereira, the man advising the administrators of Lehman Brothers. | 10yrs

Dentons has confirmed that it is to merge with Gadens and Rodyk, probably next year, creating a combined workforce of nearly 13,000 people. | 10yrs

The new Asian Business Law Institute will launch in January to assist with the convergence of Asian commercial laws, opening the door for growing cross-border business activity and investment. | 10yrs

Norton Rose Fulbright is one of three US law firms which have lost 10 or more employment partners in the 13 months to August. | 10yrs

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker has taken the lawyers from California-based Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, and will also open another office in Texas, in Beaumont. | 10yrs

White & Case is considering the possibility of opening a European centre, possibly in the UK, following the success of back office bases that it has set up in Manila and Tampa. | 10yrs

Last week's Australian In-House Lawyer Awards paid tribute to the strength of female talent in the Australian legal sector, with many of the night's top accolades going to women and Telstra general counsel Carmel Mulhern taking home the top prize. | 10yrs

The 450 partners of Linklaters have ratified a decision of the partnership board in selecting Gideon Moore as the person who will take over when Simon Davies stands down next year. | 10yrs

A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 10yrs

Stephen Poor, chair of Seyfarth Shaw, cites Altman Weil research that suggests some of the fall in demand from in-house lawyers relates to 'work that the Chief Legal Officers have decided is simply no longer necessary'. | 10yrs