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
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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
US law firms have branded themselves so poorly that a study carried out on 50 global business managers found that they were more likely to be drawn by fake advertising created for non-existent firms with names including Andersson & Cooper. | 10yrs
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is to give its highest performing associates a bonus of $110,000, beating the $100,000 announced by Cravath Swaine and other leading firms which have made their 2015 announcements. | 10yrs
An associate lawyer at the CIA wrote to colleagues warning them that criminal sanctions could follow the use of torture on detainees. | 10yrs
East Anglia-based law firm Ashton KCJ has used an increasingly popular paid time off (PTO) policy to boost the productivity of its lawyers. | 10yrs