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An employee of Goldman Sachs hired to develop surveillance systems to detect illegal behaviour has been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly trading inside information. | 10yrs

Clyde & Co intends to overhaul its diversity and inclusion programme, in a bid to improve gender and social representation in its partnership. | 10yrs

A case before California's highest court could mean the end to class-action lawyers receiving a percentage of the payouts they achieve for their clients. | 10yrs

A women who found out she has the same degenerative neurological disease gene as her father, and that her child of five has a 50/50 chance of having inherited the disease, is suing her father's doctors for not informing her before she gave birth. | 10yrs

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is considering a 'fundamental shift away from prescriptive rules' by allowing practising solicitors to give advice from unregulated firms. | 10yrs

Australian law firm Slater & Gordon's shares fell 51 per cent on Thursday, after Chancellor George Osbourne announced proposals to change the legal rights of people injured in motor accidents. | 10yrs

Law firms across the US were giving away turkeys in the run-up to Thanksgiving - including Orlando-based Pendas Law Firm, which has been handing them out for seven years. | 10yrs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is understood to have advised on 12 out of 28 inversion schemes proposed since 2013, including the latest one in which Pfizer would relocate its head office out of the US and into Ireland. | 10yrs

The two firms expect to merge formally next month, putting their joint private client offering into the UK's top five and creating a business legal services team which puts it into the UK's top 50. | 10yrs

Dentons is merging with OPF Partners, taking on its nine partners and 25 other lawyers. | 10yrs

The 17-fee earner firm ENSafrica has merged with Oxford & Beaumont in Ghana, fulfilling a long-term goal to have a presence in West Africa. | 10yrs

Linda Martin, a director of Conyers, Dill & Pearman, which advises on the laws of Bermuda, the BVI, the Cayman Islands and Mauritius, is to replace Charles Collis as head of the London office. | 10yrs

According to John Hickin, an antitrust lawyer and partner of Mayer Brown JSM, one of Hong Kong's largest firms, some businesses in Hong Kong are still not ready for a competition law that will come into effect on 14 December. | 10yrs

Weil Gotshal & Manges has cut from 12 to eight the number of people it is promoting into the partnership. | 10yrs

An English-Scottish law firm merger is understood to have been negotiated between the leadership teams of London-based Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens, which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. | 10yrs

The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to accept recommendations for a drone registration system. Brendan Schulman, lawyer at DJI, the world's biggest manufacturer of drones, has estimated that 1 million drones could be affected. | 10yrs

Plexus Law, the defendant insurance arm of the Alternative Business Structure group Parabis, has been transferred back with its 900 staff to founder Andrew McDougall and colleagues. | 10yrs

Linklaters has distanced itself from a charity which assists Syrian refugees - and which claimed that the law firm was a sponsor. | 10yrs

Burleson, the Houston-based energy law firm, is to shut all five of its offices by the end of December in response to the downturn in the sector. | 10yrs