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AkinMears appears at the top of a list in a report from the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and is followed by two other practices, which are said to each have budgets of over $24m. | 10yrs

Only 61 per cent of all takers of the New York State bar exams got a pass, while the pass rate among first-time takers was 70 per cent, according to the Board of Law Examiners. | 10yrs

As associates await the start of the US bonus announcement season, a professor at the New York University School of Law, Stephen Gillers, says that they send 'all the wrong messages' to associates and are a 'sin' in the profession. | 10yrs

Altman Weil's 'Law Firms in Transition Survey' suggests a potential retirement crisis, a growing threat from non-traditional competitors and an increased belief in the ability of AI to carry out work currently done by people. | 10yrs

Having opened in Shanghai 14 years ago, Dorsey is now opening a second office in China in Beijing under the management of corporate partner Frank Hong. | 10yrs

Announcing its first net loss in 15 years when it gave its Q3 results, Volkswagen has said that it has not increased its provisions because it is impossible to calculate their financial cost. | 10yrs

A survey by First Advantage has revealed a discrepancy between employers' belief in the need to screen employees in order to protect organisations and their actual screening practices. | 10yrs

Mediators and other practitioners of alternative dispute resolution are using information gleaned from neuroscience to help clients through a conflict-ridden process. | 10yrs

Hausfeld is to become the latest US firm to open in Germany, after a $30m investment from Burford Capital that will fund a raft of German claims for the firm with a focus on competition litigation. | 10yrs

A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 10yrs

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is increasing partner numbers by 3.7 per cent from 1 January, while augmenting the group of counsel by 16 per cent. | 10yrs

A new General Counsel position has been created at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) ahead of its conversion into an independent government company next year. | 10yrs

The international firm has released a mandate describing its needs for space within a 'leading edge office building in the Sydney CBD'. | 10yrs

Embattled Quebec-based drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals has reinstated Mason Morfit to its board to help fortify its defense against allegations of accounting impropriety. | 10yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills is hoping to get clearance for a local association that will enable it to open in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in the spring. | 10yrs

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

The Supreme Court will decide on the fate of James Mazi Parsa of Orange County after he was suspended for two years for having sex with a 17-year old employee and faces a range of range of different complaints from numerous sources. | 10yrs

Fortune 500 company Lear has halved the number of its in-house lawyers over the last decade - a trend which lets the $17.7m revenue business stay flexible on the legal side, according to GC Terry Larkin. | 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