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Administrators of Glasgow law firm McClure Naismith says they have found jobs in 19 different businesses for 25 partners and 70 staff in the firm which went into administration last month. | 10yrs

Police have searched the Kobe headquarters of the Yamaken-gumi. It is the yakuza group's first police raid since it was ousted from the Yamaguchi-gumi, in a rupture of Japan's largest crime syndicate. | 10yrs

Lawyers using Chichester Combined Court have pleaded with Lord Chancellor Michael Gove to reconsider the decision to close it. | 10yrs

Pinsent Masons is to extend its existing bonus scheme by adding on a new category for 'adding value to clients and delivering excellent client service'. | 10yrs

About 10,000 refugees on the move have taken advice from Turkish lawyers through Souktel, a 30-person start-up launched three weeks ago. | 10yrs

The Supreme Court of India has said that the mental and physical fitness of lawyers should be put to the test to prove they are able to conduct trials in criminal cases and ensure that litigants don't suffer on account of their competence. | 10yrs

The accountant advising Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected Labour leader in the UK, has given an interview to the Robotics Law Journal about the difficulties of taxing the booming robotics industry. | 10yrs

Brown Rudnick's head of European IP has been the focus of media scrutiny for a week, after a female barrister responded angrily when he described a LinkedIn photograph of her as 'stunning'. | 10yrs

Firms which are successfully addressing the retirement issue are beginning to broach the subject early, at age 55 or 60, according to a legal consultant. | 10yrs

Japanese prosecutors have charged the head of collapsed Bitcoin exchange MtGox with embezzlement, amid allegations of fraud relating to the disappearance of hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars with of the virtual currency. | 10yrs

Several families of those who lost loved ones and a number of those who were seriously injured in the beach gun attack in Tunisia in June have begun legal action against Thomson, the tour operator who provided their holidays. | 10yrs

French lawyer Veronique Martinez is at the helm of a project to launch 'the new Arthur Andersen' in Europe in 2016, in a plan to revive the old brand values and fierce reputation of the company that disintegrated 12 years ago after the Enron scandal | 10yrs

Only a week after taking on five new partners in Glasgow, Harper Macleod is taking over a two-partner practice in Shetland. | 10yrs

The author of To Kill a Mockingbird worked for months planning a book on a complicated story of family murder and defence, according to the wife of an attorney involved. | 10yrs

The US litigation boutique is to open in the UK capital in the expectation of a boom in consumer suits against the banking sector. | 10yrs

The legal profession has barriers in place which are 'far too high' and which keep out people without money or knowledge of the sector, according to Lord Justice Vos. | 10yrs

International law firm Linklaters is giving clients the opportunity to sign legal documents electronically, directly from their smartphone, tablet or desktop. | 10yrs

Lawyers in New South Wales will now be able to make requests and seek preliminary orders such as adjournments and hearing dates online. | 10yrs

The firm's top of equity has earned £1.16m this year, as top-tier income jumped 43 per cent. | 10yrs