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About 85 per cent of managing partners in the top US law firms are in the 50 to 65 age group, according to research from legal marketer Heather Morse. | 10yrs

Melanie Joly, a 36-year old litigation specialist, has been appointed to the small cabinet of new Premier Justin Trudeau as heritage minister. | 10yrs

Many companies have found themselves in the spotlight over a range of issues in recent times. At an event in London, Joseph Gromacki of Jenner & Block will discuss the steps general counsel need to take when the heat is on. | 10yrs

Conversations should be about value for money, says leading business outsourcer and Integreon CEO Bob Gogel. | 10yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is in mourning over the death of litigation partner Tim Coleman, after a man was reported dead after falling from their building. | 10yrs

Some 48 per cent of corporates in Europe are expecting to increase their use of alternative finance in the next five years, according to research from Allen & Overy. | 10yrs

A group of noteholders in Caesars Entertainment Operating Company is asking a court to reconsider the appointment of Kirkland & Ellis as counsel to the debtors in relation to the Caesars bankruptcy. | 10yrs

EY, the Big Four accountancy firm formerly known as Ernst & Young, is to recruit four legal trainees to start in September 2016 and another four to start a year later. | 10yrs

The Law Practice Council of the ABA has for the first time recognised an event that has been going on for 15 years - 'Love Your Lawyer Day', which is celebrated tomorrow. | 10yrs

Innangard will be used as a platform by its members to offer advice to in-house counsel and HR professionals. | 10yrs

European firms Chiomenti, Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, Gide Loyrette Nouel and Gleiss Lutz are to launch a joint focus group for regulatory issues centred in Frankfurt, in proximity to the European Central Bank (ECB). | 10yrs

The Cincinnati-based firm has 625 lawyers following the 1 November deal, which gives it a presence on the US West coast for the first time. | 10yrs

Gideon Moore, the adviser to Lloyds Bank who started his legal career at Clifford Chance, is to have his name put forward to the Linklaters partnership on 17 November for ratification as their next managing partner. | 10yrs

The firm has taken on 29 of the 'elite appellate lawyers', as it describes them, in its last four intakes. It now has so many that it can locate some of them outside Washington, D.C. where there is most demand for their services. | 10yrs

Shine Lawyers is suing an ex-employee on the grounds that he has taken six clients he was working with for the firm in relation to the MH17 and MH370 Malaysian Airlines disasters. | 10yrs

The Dentons list of personnel is set to grow by 700 lawyers, should votes due to take place in the next fortnight clear a three-way merger with Gadens in Australia and Rodyk & Davidson in Singapore. | 10yrs

Google may be gearing up for a protracted legal battle with the European Commission, after parent company Alphabet Inc. swung back at EU regulators for their apparent about-face in the decision to file antitrust charges against the US search giant. | 10yrs

MTN Group, Africa's largest mobile operator, is reportedly in negotiations with Nigerian authorities after the Nigerian Communications Commission handed down a massive $5.2 billion fine to the telecom giant over its failure to unregister SIM cards. | 10yrs

The family behind Forbes Media is suing Hong Kong investors Integrated Whale Media Investments over an alleged breach of payment for a controlling stake that was purchased by IWMI last year. | 10yrs