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Litigation is cited by 32 per cent of lawyers surveyed by Robert Half Legal as offering the greatest number of job opportunities in the first half of 2016. | 10yrs

Lateral hires are likely to play a key role in the success or failure of law firms next year - against a background of volatility, according to predictions from Citi Private Bank and consultants Hildebrandt. | 10yrs

Announcing a modest 1 per cent H1 increase in revenues, Simmons & Simmons has revealed its intentions to target high-growth areas and to encourage the development of specialist and niche-specific lawyers over generalists. | 10yrs

A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone-messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, as a punishment for WhatsApp's refusal to communicate with the court. | 10yrs

UK-based DWF is to merge with a German practice on 1 January, taking the combined group to a joint turnover of £194m and a team of 2,360 people. | 10yrs

A test carried out by the University of Michigan found that computers were able to outperform humans in spotting liars in courtrooms. | 10yrs

The main reason behind the 438 law firm mergers that took place between 2011 and 2014 is geographical expansion, according to consultants Fairfax Associates - and a similar amount of activity is expected to take place next year. | 10yrs

Mega deals and greater inflows of foreign capital are expected to be features of a strong M&A market in Australia in 2016, according to an analysis by Herbert Smith Freehills. | 10yrs

A 'new class of lawyers' has been created by Peerpoint, Obelisk, Vario and other organisations that act as temporary employment platforms for legal professionals, according to the Financial Times. | 10yrs

Eric Dinallo, who stood to be New York State Attorney General in 2010, pulled a man out of the path of a subway train in Manhattan last week. | 10yrs

At least one in three in-house counsel have experienced a corporate data breach, according to a new survey from the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation. Without appropriate action, that figure is expected to rise. | 10yrs

The new Law Department Survey and Compensation Survey from HBR Consulting has found that compensation for in-house lawyers has increased for the third consecutive year. | 10yrs

US law firm Fox Rothschild will be represented in 12 states after its 4 January merger with Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly. | 10yrs

The Indian government has unveiled a new framework for approving and defending intellectual property rights. It is intended to boost innovation and remove obstacles to doing business in India for multinational corporations, particularly drugmakers. | 10yrs

David Boies of Boies Schiller & Flexner has described comments from Alan Dershowitz, onetime defender of Claus von Bulow and Mike Tyson, as 'misleading',while Mr Dershowitz has flatly contradicted a version of events given by Mr Boies. | 10yrs

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

Vladimir Putin has signed a law that allows the Constitutional Court of Russia to decide whether to comply with judgements made by international human rights courts. | 10yrs

Pricing pressure and uncertainties over workflow are two of the main drivers behind the growing demand for freelance lawyers, according to the founder of a new online marketplace in Australia. | 10yrs

Days after VW chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch admitted that engineers began working as early as 2005 on emissions cheating software, the carmaker is faced with legal action in India and China. | 10yrs