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The 725-lawyer practice is opening its 14th office worldwide and its second in California, where it already has an IT-specialist base in Palo Alto. | 10yrs

A meeting between justice secretary Michael Gove and senior members of City law firms seems to have done little to allay fears that the Ministry of Justice plans to impose some form of levy on City firms to fund the courts. | 10yrs

Michael Milliken, former general counsel for General Motors, is fending off a subpoena to testify at the company's upcoming ignition switch defect bellwether trial. | 10yrs

AkinMears appears at the top of a list in a report from the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and is followed by two other practices, which are said to each have budgets of over $24m. | 10yrs

As associates await the start of the US bonus announcement season, a professor at the New York University School of Law, Stephen Gillers, says that they send 'all the wrong messages' to associates and are a 'sin' in the profession. | 10yrs

Only 61 per cent of all takers of the New York State bar exams got a pass, while the pass rate among first-time takers was 70 per cent, according to the Board of Law Examiners. | 10yrs

Having opened in Shanghai 14 years ago, Dorsey is now opening a second office in China in Beijing under the management of corporate partner Frank Hong. | 10yrs

Altman Weil's 'Law Firms in Transition Survey' suggests a potential retirement crisis, a growing threat from non-traditional competitors and an increased belief in the ability of AI to carry out work currently done by people. | 10yrs

Announcing its first net loss in 15 years when it gave its Q3 results, Volkswagen has said that it has not increased its provisions because it is impossible to calculate their financial cost. | 10yrs

Hausfeld is to become the latest US firm to open in Germany, after a $30m investment from Burford Capital that will fund a raft of German claims for the firm with a focus on competition litigation. | 10yrs

Mediators and other practitioners of alternative dispute resolution are using information gleaned from neuroscience to help clients through a conflict-ridden process. | 10yrs

A survey by First Advantage has revealed a discrepancy between employers' belief in the need to screen employees in order to protect organisations and their actual screening practices. | 10yrs

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is increasing partner numbers by 3.7 per cent from 1 January, while augmenting the group of counsel by 16 per cent. | 10yrs

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

A new General Counsel position has been created at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) ahead of its conversion into an independent government company next year. | 10yrs

The international firm has released a mandate describing its needs for space within a 'leading edge office building in the Sydney CBD'. | 10yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills is hoping to get clearance for a local association that will enable it to open in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in the spring. | 10yrs

Embattled Quebec-based drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals has reinstated Mason Morfit to its board to help fortify its defense against allegations of accounting impropriety. | 10yrs

Fortune 500 company Lear has halved the number of its in-house lawyers over the last decade - a trend which lets the $17.7m revenue business stay flexible on the legal side, according to GC Terry Larkin. | 10yrs