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GMB, the union that represents professional drivers, has instructed Leigh Day to take legal action on behalf of its members who drive for Uber. It aims to establish the drivers with worker status, rather than as self-employed customers or partners. | 10yrs

Nordea Asset Management has confirmed that it will sue Volkswagen over the emissions-fixing scandal and Stewarts Law has said that asset managers have been contacting it about possible litigation. | 10yrs

Some lawyers may have asked for a truce on anti-lawyer jokes on last Friday's 'Love Your Lawyer Day', but many of the tweets made with #LoveYourLawyerDay seemed to have a twist in the tail. | 10yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is being scrutinised for charging £2.8m in legal fees when advising HM Treasury during the £585m sale of the government's 40 per cent stake in Eurostar in March this year. | 10yrs

It has emerged that the government's draft investigatory powers bill, which will govern state agencies' interception of communications, lacks statutory protection for legal privilege. | 10yrs

David Leitch, whose departure from the general counsel post of Ford was announced last month, is expected to be signed on in the same position at Bank of America. | 10yrs

Gide Loyrette Nouel is to take over the Paris office of its ally in Spain, Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, just over 13 months after the Casablanca offices of the two firms combined. | 10yrs

Melanie Joly, a 36-year old litigation specialist, has been appointed to the small cabinet of new Premier Justin Trudeau as heritage minister. | 10yrs

About 85 per cent of managing partners in the top US law firms are in the 50 to 65 age group, according to research from legal marketer Heather Morse. | 10yrs

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy is taking on 35 per cent more office space to cater for a doubling in its number of London lawyers over the last five years. | 10yrs

Many companies have found themselves in the spotlight over a range of issues in recent times. At an event in London, Joseph Gromacki of Jenner & Block will discuss the steps general counsel need to take when the heat is on. | 10yrs

Conversations should be about value for money, says leading business outsourcer and Integreon CEO Bob Gogel. | 10yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is in mourning over the death of litigation partner Tim Coleman, after a man was reported dead after falling from their building. | 10yrs

Some 48 per cent of corporates in Europe are expecting to increase their use of alternative finance in the next five years, according to research from Allen & Overy. | 10yrs

A group of noteholders in Caesars Entertainment Operating Company is asking a court to reconsider the appointment of Kirkland & Ellis as counsel to the debtors in relation to the Caesars bankruptcy. | 10yrs

Innangard will be used as a platform by its members to offer advice to in-house counsel and HR professionals. | 10yrs

The Law Practice Council of the ABA has for the first time recognised an event that has been going on for 15 years - 'Love Your Lawyer Day', which is celebrated tomorrow. | 10yrs

EY, the Big Four accountancy firm formerly known as Ernst & Young, is to recruit four legal trainees to start in September 2016 and another four to start a year later. | 10yrs

European firms Chiomenti, Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, Gide Loyrette Nouel and Gleiss Lutz are to launch a joint focus group for regulatory issues centred in Frankfurt, in proximity to the European Central Bank (ECB). | 10yrs