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International litigation specialist Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is to have a presence in Dallas, Texas, through a merger today with 21-lawyer practice Crouch & Ramey. It will become the 18th office in its network. | 10yrs

Charles Bennett, 57, has pleaded guilty to putting the money of family and friends into a Ponzi investment scheme, which he now describes as a 'fiction of my crazed imagination'. | 10yrs

Law firms are being warned to be careful about signing up to cloud service contracts that exclude the provider from liability in case of damage to the data. | 10yrs

Boutiques are starting to fight for the same work as national firms, positioning nationals as their major threat, according to Ted Dwyer of Dwyer Consulting. | 11yrs

Russia and Ukraine are vowing to fight one another in a London court, in a dispute that will test the limits of sovereign-debt litigation and that could have far reaching implications for government bailouts. | 11yrs

Clyde & Co has recruited ten lawyers, including five partners, to its Cape Town and Johannesburg offices, bringing its headcount of lawyers in the country to 30. | 11yrs

Law firms in Australia that have difficulty in moving over to innovative practices are at risk of being left in the margins, according to the Innovation Inertia: 2015 LexisNexis Roadshow Report. | 11yrs

The 725-lawyer practice is opening its 14th office worldwide and its second in California, where it already has an IT-specialist base in Palo Alto. | 11yrs

Embroiled in regulatory investigations, the bank has set aside €1.2bn for litigation costs, is cutting 9,000 jobs and leaving 10 countries as it seeks to reduce the risks to which it is exposed. | 11yrs

A meeting between justice secretary Michael Gove and senior members of City law firms seems to have done little to allay fears that the Ministry of Justice plans to impose some form of levy on City firms to fund the courts. | 11yrs

Michael Milliken, former general counsel for General Motors, is fending off a subpoena to testify at the company's upcoming ignition switch defect bellwether trial. | 11yrs

AkinMears appears at the top of a list in a report from the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and is followed by two other practices, which are said to each have budgets of over $24m. | 11yrs

Only 61 per cent of all takers of the New York State bar exams got a pass, while the pass rate among first-time takers was 70 per cent, according to the Board of Law Examiners. | 11yrs

As associates await the start of the US bonus announcement season, a professor at the New York University School of Law, Stephen Gillers, says that they send 'all the wrong messages' to associates and are a 'sin' in the profession. | 11yrs

Altman Weil's 'Law Firms in Transition Survey' suggests a potential retirement crisis, a growing threat from non-traditional competitors and an increased belief in the ability of AI to carry out work currently done by people. | 11yrs

Having opened in Shanghai 14 years ago, Dorsey is now opening a second office in China in Beijing under the management of corporate partner Frank Hong. | 11yrs

Announcing its first net loss in 15 years when it gave its Q3 results, Volkswagen has said that it has not increased its provisions because it is impossible to calculate their financial cost. | 11yrs

A survey by First Advantage has revealed a discrepancy between employers' belief in the need to screen employees in order to protect organisations and their actual screening practices. | 11yrs

Mediators and other practitioners of alternative dispute resolution are using information gleaned from neuroscience to help clients through a conflict-ridden process. | 11yrs