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Microsoft CLO Brad Smith has called on the US government to respect European Union privacy laws for transatlantic personal data in the post-Safe Harbour era. | 10yrs

Melbourne-based law firm Maurice Blackburn, working with a coalition of anti-gambling groups called Alliance for Gambling Reform, is preparing a case arguing that poker machine operators are engaging in deceptive and misleading conduct. | 10yrs

Former judge Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt is to take on the role of director of integrity and legal affairs on 1 January. | 10yrs

Law firms are going through a 'dawning recognition' of the role of high tech in the legal sector - but it may be too late for some practices, according to an Altman Weil report. | 10yrs

Just under one in three students at Arizona Summit Law School who sat the bar exam in July got a pass - despite the school offering $5,000 to underperforming students to delay sitting the exam. | 10yrs

A report from the Law Society of South Australia shows that women are earning substantially less than men in the legal profession, but many women are working part-time and few have the years of experience that the long-serving men have. | 10yrs

Kirkland & Ellis is extending its restructuring practice in Hong Kong by recruiting its third ex-Hogan Lovells partner, Kelley Naphtali, a year after it founded the team there with two other ex-Hogan partners. | 10yrs

Volkswagen AG has suspended a larger number of employees than previously acknowledged, following advice from Jones Day, the law firm conducting an internal investigation into the company's emissions cheating scandal. | 10yrs

A number of leading law firms in the UK are said to have been the focus of cyber attacks, according to the Mail newspaper group, which has been investigating the breaches in the Talk Talk hacking over the last week. | 10yrs

There have been over one million views of the tongue in cheek YouTube videos made by Bryan Wilson, who calls himself the 'Texas Law Hawk'. | 10yrs

The challenge over the fees basis used for non-court cases is being brought by the London-based Fairness in Fees group and will be made by Robert O'Donoghue of Brick Court Chambers. | 10yrs

Kirkland & Ellis chief information officer Dan Nottke has revealed that his team sends fake phishing emails to people in the firm as a way of educating them not to open suspicious communications. | 10yrs

The New York Court of Appeals has found that Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft gave 'proper advice' on a Nomura Asset Capital mortgage-backed securitisation, finding in favour of the firm and ending a long-running dispute. | 10yrs

In the clearest sign yet that the US search giant will face fresh competition charges in Brussels, the bloc's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has said that EU regulators will actively pursue Google parent company Alphabet on a range of fronts. | 10yrs

American International Group (AIG) is to launch The Legal Operations Company in January next year. It will advise outside corporations on how to set competitive pricing and make their legal operations more efficient. | 10yrs

Justice secretary Michael Gove has floated a plan to impose a multi-million pound tax on commercial law firms, in order to fund the abolition of a controversial criminal court charge on guilty defendants. | 10yrs

A Texas lawyer who has claimed to be acting for 44,000 victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil leak has been indicted for allegedly making false claims for compensation. | 10yrs

By joining forces with De la Calle, Londono, Lopez y Posada Abogados (DLP) in Bogota, Garrigues is fulfilling a Latin American expansion plan which it set down as part of its strategy in 2013. | 10yrs

The median charge out rate for partners in the top 50 US law firms has risen from $675 per hour to $711, according to LexisNexis, which is comparing its H1 2015 research to a previous piece of research that covered calendar year 2014. | 10yrs