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A town hall efficiency drive has seen the spend by local authorities on law firms and barristers fall £18bn to £156bn in 2013/14, according to research from Thomson Reuters. | 10yrs

King & Wood Mallesons is responding to the flight of some of its partners, particularly from London, by reforming its lockstep system and creating a new resource to pay over £2m to recruit big-billers from other firms. | 10yrs

The legal sector appears to be demonstrating a textbook example of the 'winner-take-all' economy, with smaller numbers of specialists doing well and the rest getting leaner returns, according to Professor Benjamin Barton. | 10yrs

Issues relating to sound recordings could become more of an issue - especially in the context of the camera and audio recording equipment carried by drones, according to the French privacy regulator in an interview with the Robotics Law Journal. | 10yrs

The second tier of UK firms is growing faster than the top 25. But Allen & Overy saw revenues increase the most among the Magic Circle, with four per cent growth, according to the results of LB100, the Legal Business 100. | 10yrs

11KBW silk Sean Jones has begun an appeal on Just Giving requesting lawyers donate a billable hour to support Save the Children's work for refugees. | 10yrs

In a survey by Crown Records Management, 70 percent of IT decision makers in the legal industry said their company have lost important data. | 10yrs

A Tennessee lawyer has been suspended after billing a client US$5,000 for research that turned out to be the watching of true crime programmes. | 10yrs

Hogan Lovells has announced Oliver J. Armas as the new managing partner of its New York office, while finance lawyer Rober Masman is to join the firm's global finance practice as a partner in the Amsterdam office. | 10yrs

Clifford Chance has announced that Jessica Gladstone is to join its London office as a partner. Ms Gladstone specialises in public and private international law, advising multinationals, financial institutions, foreign investors and sovereign states. | 10yrs

Lawyers for three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders accused of fraud have told a judge that they won't call any witnesses to bolster their defence and plan to rest their case when the jury returns on Tuesday. | 10yrs

Eight City firms have adopted a contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility among staff, after a government report criticised professional service firms for consistently excluding bright working-class applicants from their workforce. | 10yrs

Reed Smith has taken on Gregory Wang as a partner in Hong Kong from Morrison & Foerster, and two local partners in Singapore - Calvin Chan from Skadden and Kohe Hasan from Oon & Bazul - as it looks at gaining Singaporean local law capability. | 10yrs

Taylor Wessing has announced a merger with Dutch firm Deterink, in a move that will see the firm gain two new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. | 10yrs

News Corp has announced that Rebekah Brooks will return as head of its UK division after resigning over a tabloid phone hacking scandal, though it may face a new legal challenge from the Crown Prosecution Service. | 10yrs

A US professor has identified the age of law firm leaders and ownership structures as factors that make firms out of sync with the clients they serve and mean value cannot be maximised. | 10yrs

US in-house pay for corporate counsels and paralegals is up an average of three per cent, research by the Robert Half legal has found. | 10yrs

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

The Indian antitrust authority has released a lengthy report evaluating allegations of monopoly abuses by Google. The document's release coincides with the launch of a platform to help companies to collectively sue the search engine. | 10yrs