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The broadcaster has become the first in-house legal department to adopt diversity recruitment specialist Rare's Contextual Recruitment System (CRS), which contextualises applicant experience in order to identify stand-out trainee candidates. | 10yrs

A Maclay spokesperson has confirmed that the Scottish firm will not push ahead with a tie-up with Addleshaw Goddard, quelling reports late last year that a merger was on the cards. | 10yrs

The now defunct law firm Dickstein Shapiro has told its equity partners - some of whom left as long as three years ago - that they won't be getting any capital back. | 10yrs

Lawyers from two top Australian law departments have traded places as part of a three-month secondment program, the first of its kinds for in-house counsel. | 10yrs

The latest TMF Group Global Benchmark Index shows it's smooth sailing in Ireland, but businesses operating in Latin America can expect compliance headaches. | 10yrs

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

American Airlines is suing its in-flight Internet provider, Gogo, in an attempt to get out of its contract and switch to a competitor, arguing that sluggish connectivity is driving away customers. | 10yrs

A high court sentencing judgement handed down this week in London has revealed that King & Spalding handed back $800k in fees to Russian billionaire Sergei Pugachev after his payment was found to be in contempt of a $2bn global freezing order. | 10yrs

Olswang Asia is taking on a new managing partner, while Bird & Bird and White & Case associate Witara Cakra Advocates have made double partner hires. | 10yrs

A group of men in lawyers' robes attacked teachers and students of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University at the Patiala House court on Monday, where the university's student union president Kanhaiya Kumar appeared to face a sedition charge. | 10yrs

High-profile criminal barrister Peter Sefton has been suspended from practice by the Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service for failing to report a harassment conviction and diminishing public confidence in the profession. | 10yrs

In a first for the legal industry, LPO service provider QuisLex has announced the issuance of a US patent for its document review process. | 10yrs

Chancery Lane has played its next hand in the ongoing tussle with the Solicitors Regulation Authority, arguing that the current 11 legal regulators, including the SRA and the Legal Services Board, should be coalesced into one single regulator. | 10yrs

Outspoken lawyer and district councillor Junius Ho Kwan-yiu has said that Hong Kong police should have used greater force to maintain public order in the district of Mong Kok, where a violent riot broke out last week. | 10yrs

Photographs of a New Zealand judge holidaying at a nudist camp have been removed from the resort's website after being used to promote it. | 10yrs

Conservative powerhouse Justice Scalia has passed away after almost 30 years of service to the US Supreme Court, leaving the political split of the US' highest court hanging in the balance. | 10yrs

Nabarro, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Squire Patton Boggs have added to their ranks, while accounting firm PwC is developing its legal arm with a double partner hire. | 10yrs

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has turned up the heat on legal service providers, launching an application on Friday to become a regulator of all reserved legal activities, including litigation and rights of audience. | 10yrs

Seattle outfit PCVA Law is the first law firm to bring a class action lawsuit against Apple over its now notorious iPhone 6s 'Error 53', beating a path for further legal challenges against the consumer tech giant. | 10yrs