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Gateley, which floated on the London AIM market in June, has just announced that its turnover rose 10.9 per cent in the six months to the end of October. | 10yrs

The disappearance and reappearance of Fosun Group founder and chairman Guo Guangchang and the lack of information released by the company highlight the opaqueness of China's legal system, according to analysts. | 10yrs

The number of lawyers working in FTSE 100 companies is now over 10,000, according to exclusive research from The Lawyer, with the largest in-house teams rivalling private practice law firms in terms of fee-earners. | 10yrs

The eDiscovery business Consilio is to take over its far larger competitor on 31 December, as part of a series of purchases it has made this year with the aim of establishing itself as a much larger player. | 10yrs

Clyde & Co has increased its turnover by eight per cent (or 10 per cent if a different currency conversion procedure is used) to £192 million for the first half of 2015/16. | 10yrs

Addleshaw Goddard has settled with the administrators of the estate of Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch and mathematician who was found dead, aged 67, at his home in the English countryside in March 2013. | 10yrs

Transactional lawyers are so much in demand in top locations such as Frankfurt and Warsaw that employers are looking to take on foreign lawyers in order to manage their workloads, according to an Australian recruitment specialist. | 10yrs

Consolidation in the insurance sector is creating a surge in M&A work in the Australian legal market that has been rippling out from in-house lawyers to their legal advisers. | 10yrs

The Law Society is to make 'no further investment' in online property conveyancing service Veyo, just seven months after its launch. | 10yrs

The demand for legal services in the areas of corporate and commercial law in Uganda is growing, according to David Mpanga, managing partner of Kampala-based law firm AF Mpanga. | 10yrs

Bryan Wilson, the 29-year-old Fort Worth lawyer who calls himself the 'Texas Law Hawk', is regularly seeing his humorous adverts go viral on Facebook. | 10yrs

Rideshare firm Uber has released a new contract to all of its drivers in the US that purports to solve problems a judge said made arbitration requirements in the previous agreement unenforceable. | 10yrs

Litigation boutique Boies Schiller & Flexner has once again outshone the large US firms with its bonus offerings, reaching up to $350,000 for associates of a year's standing or more in Calfornia, New York and Washington, DC. | 10yrs

UK regulators are being called on to update privacy rules, in order to cope with a boom in drone sales ahead of Christmas. | 10yrs

Partners who are seen to move too often could find that they become 'unattractive as a prospect' to other legal practices, according to Doron Paluch, legal recruitment expert and director at recruiter Burgess Paluch. | 10yrs

A leading player in the UK personal injury sector has said that he would prefer to recruit computer science graduates to law graduates because of the growing importance of IT. | 10yrs

Riverview Law has gone live with Kim, technology that will from Q1 2016 power an innovative series of legal Virtual Assistants. | 10yrs

Pure Legal Limited has completed the £13 million acquisition of York-based personal injury firm Pryers, with the intention of building a profitable PI business in the fixed-fee era. | 10yrs

Accountants are more satisfied with their IT systems and are expecting to spend more on them next year than their colleagues in the law, according to research from CompTIA, the global IT industry association. | 10yrs