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Chadbourne & Parke and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman are understood to have walked away from the prospect of joining forces, possibly because of the latter's 1-1 ratio of partners to associates. | 10yrs

While many states require that law firms carry the names of their owners, Nevada has allowed a practice to be called Half Price Lawyers. | 10yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills, K&L Gates and Stephenson Harwood are among those instructed by the Serious Fraud Office in proceedings against former employees of Barclays and Deutsche Bank accused of manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor). | 10yrs

Berwin Leighton Paisner has announced it intends to open its first office in Myanmar. It has appointed partner Chris Hughes, former managing partner in Baker & McKenzie's Yangon office, to lead the expansion. | 10yrs

Three partners have emerged as the favourites to take over as senior partner at the Magic Circle firm next May, with another three highlighted as being in the lead to become managing partner. | 10yrs

Steven Metro is to be sentenced in a $5.6m insider dealing case brought by the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey, after admitting to stealing information on deals via computer from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. | 10yrs

Allen & Overy has recruited an Asian head of its Peerpoint service, who is to begin immediately to locate lawyers to work in the region. | 10yrs

Paris-based Valentin Ribet, who graduated from the London School of Economics in International Business Law in 2014, was killed at the Bataclan concert hall terrorist attack last Friday. | 10yrs

David Haigh, the former general counsel and chief executive of Leeds Football Club, is expected to be released from a Dubai jail today. The move will enable him to return to the UK and attempt to clear his name. | 10yrs

Major clients are putting smaller law firms to go national, according to a partner in commercial practice Mills Oakley. | 10yrs

Brown Rudnick partner Steven Friel joins the company to head its investment arm as Chief Investment Officer. | 10yrs

Withers has lost in the Court of Appeal in London over a professional negligence claim from Wellesley Partners, a former client. | 10yrs

Michael Roumell, a former Chicago litigator who retired at 50 in 2005 and took up real estate when he moved to Florida, has been named as one of the US's 'supersavers' in the New York Times. | 10yrs

Richard Rosenbaum has given an interview in which he predicts that some traditional firms will die, while others will benefit for a while and another group of nimble, hungry practices will make it through. | 10yrs

Three of the nine partners based in the Latham & Watkins Dubai office have decided to move to Hogan Lovells, just weeks after the US-based firm announced it was closing offices in Abu Dhabi and Doha. | 10yrs

The service will be offered to clients in a tie-up with agile working provider LOD, though most of the freelancers will be DLA Piper alumni. | 10yrs

Australian firm Minter Ellison has increased its turnover by A$10m - successfully navigating 'current patchy market conditions', according to chief executive Tony Harrington. | 10yrs

US law firms grew at an average rate of 3.6 per cent in the first nine months of this year, according to research from Citi Private Bank's Law Firm Group. | 10yrs

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has set a minimum wage for trainees of £20,276 in London and £18,183 elsewhere - but the figures are recommendations only. | 10yrs