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One of the many challenges facing the legal profession is 'death from above' through the drive to maximise partner profits, according to University of Tennessee law professor Benjamin Barton. | 10yrs

Who's Who Legal has mentioned 76 law firms in the seventh edition of its Nigerian listing, highlighting five practices as stand-out firms. | 10yrs

China's economic problems are likely to weed out the weaker local businesses, meaning that foreign investors have to be more careful to chose smart local entities to partner with, according to the China Law Blog. | 10yrs

Litigation is described as an 'arms race' of 'dubious necessity' carried out by lawyers who are usually accused of being greedy but who are often 'unhappy and overworked', in an article in The New Yorker magazine. | 10yrs

Clay Long, a founder of McKenna Long & Aldridge, has cited conflict of interests with some of his existing clients and will continue to serve long-standing clients which bottle Coca-Cola in new practice CC Long Law. | 10yrs

Some £72m has been saved by CMS in the UK through moves including its transfer to a state-of-the-art building in London and an outsourcing agreement with Integreon. | 10yrs

When the two new partners arrive, Morgan Lewis & Bockius will have recruited five partners from K&L Gates to staff its London structured finance group. | 10yrs

A 4% decline in revenues, taking Baker & McKenzie to US$2.43b globally, relates to currency devaluation issues which turned an increase into a fall, according to the firm's chair. | 10yrs

The woman who stabbed 30-year old IP lawyer David Messerschmitt to death in a hotel bedroom has been sentenced after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. | 10yrs

Lawyers think the leak of 37m names from the membership list of the Ashley Madison database, an online club aimed at unfaithful spouses, is going to create a boom in divorces this autumn - a 'Christmas in September', according to one practitioner. | 10yrs

Haiwen, the only top rank Chinese firm to adopt a lock-step remuneration system for partners, has introduced a system which will reward younger lawyers who are in danger of being recruited by rivals. | 10yrs

Finding new customer is such a challenge for law firms that many have decided to expand their geographic network, according to a research report on Australia and New Zealand. | 10yrs

The total is expected to reach 300,000 by the end of 2015 - but the government says that present levels of professionalism are not high enough. | 10yrs

In-house legal units are among the business functions that are 'far more likely to actually open [a phishing] e-mail than all other departments', according to the '2015 Data Breach Investigations Report' from Verizon. | 10yrs

Both Fortune and Bloomberg Business have run articles in the last few days asking if entrants to the legal profession are becoming dumber. | 10yrs

A top legal website claims that Cravath Swaine partner and 'multiple attorneys' at Baker & McKenzie are listed as being among the clients of the Ashely Madison dating agency whose identities have recently been compromised by hackers, | 10yrs

Paul Motion, partner in Glasgow and Edinburgh firm bto, is making two appearances in his own show, 'Phoney or False Reviews Online - What Can I Do?', at the Edinburgh Fringe theatre festival. | 10yrs

Lawyer jobs are vulnerable to the progress of artificial intelligence, according to the author of new title 'Humans need not apply'. Jerry Kaplan is a lecturer on the legal informatics course at Stanford University. | 10yrs

Five local legal practices in Vietnam have got together to create the LawTeam Alliance - and they expect to announce the arrival of other 'major local law firms' to the group. | 10yrs