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New rules intended to improve internal oversight at banks could put junior bankers at risk of being fired by managers attempting to protect themselves, a London firm of employment lawyers has warned. | 10yrs

The new chief executive of scandal-ridden Volkswagen, Matthias Mueller, is to oversee a strengthening of the corporate governance system as part of a strategy to regain the public's trust. | 10yrs

All of the top 30 Chinese law firms, bar one, saw 'stellar' growth over the last year, according to The Lawyer China Elite 2015. Beijing-based Han Kun had the strongest growth, with its revenue jumping by 78 per cent. | 10yrs

Japan made amendments to its Civil Aeronautics Act this month in order to allow the use of drones in areas where they are deemed safe. | 10yrs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is one of six firms to join the OnRamp Fellowship, along with Morrison & Foerster, Loeb & Loeb, Stoel Rives, Wiley Rein and Wilson Elser. | 10yrs

Thirty-one lawyers acquired in a January merger with Edwards Wildman Palmer have been lost from Locke Lord's Boston office since the end of April. | 10yrs

Claims made to professional indemnity insurer Elite this year totalling £2.5m may be only the tip of the iceberg in an epidemic of so-called 'vishing' fraud, where callers posing as bank employees empty office and client accounts. | 10yrs

Research conducted by Oxford Economics for the Law Society has found that the legal services sector in the UK would be 'disproportionately disadvantaged' if the UK were to completely withdraw from the EU. | 10yrs

As the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) issues an alert per day over cyber attacks, law firms are being warned to review their prevention systems in order to reduce the risk of fines and reputational damage. | 10yrs

As lawyers research the possibility that Volkswagen fixed its emissions equipment in cars sold in the UK, specialists are saying that any collective action that results would break records in UK litigation. | 10yrs

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is in merger talks with Chadbourne & Parke, according to seven anonymous sources that have been in communication with Bloomberg Business of Law. | 10yrs

A Duane Morris partner has been released from a sanctions order by the judge who imposed it and praised as an 'admirable person in the community', after she took more ethics classed than he had prescribed and engaged with local groups. | 10yrs

Bas Boris Visser, innovation chief at Clifford Chance, warns that change will happen faster in the next decade and that the next generation of lawyers must be used to negotiate it, in a speech at The Lawyer Business Leadership Summit. | 10yrs

The AmLaw 200 firm is setting up a multi-disciplinary team to advise on issues including compliance, insurance, intellectual property, privacy, litigation and finance. | 10yrs

Max Schrems, the law student turned privacy activist, has won the support of the Advocate General - the specialist whose opinion is usually followed by the ECJ - in his challenge to Facebook's practice of holding data from Europe in the US. | 10yrs

The Brazilian government is in talks with lawmakers to increase revenues by legalising gambling, after they signalled that the government will struggle to overcome a budget deficit by passing a controversial new tax. | 10yrs

VW general counsel David Geanacopoulos is dealing with roughly 20 US federal lawsuits and an Environment Protection Agency investigation, following recent revelations about the company's cars. | 10yrs

The Big Four accountancy firm, previously known as Ernst & Young, plans to increase its UK legal team from 30 to 60 lawyers within a year. | 10yrs

Nearly one quarter (23 per cent) of US law firms with over 500 lawyers were subject to data breaches last year, up from 17 per cent the year before, according to the 2015 Legal Technology Survey of the American Bar Association. | 10yrs