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The Indian antitrust authority has released a lengthy report evaluating allegations of monopoly abuses by Google. The document's release coincides with the launch of a platform to help companies to collectively sue the search engine. | 11yrs

According to a survey by the International Legal Technology Association and InsideLegal, security management has beaten email management as the biggest issue that legal IT departments must confront for the first time in eight years. | 11yrs

Cisco's lawyers at Winston & Strawn claim in a lawsuit that HP is refusing to pay a US$58 million balance. | 11yrs

GCs and law firms don't see eye to eye on billing, strategy and procurement, research by Corporate Counsel Exchange has revealed. | 11yrs

The litigation boutique has announced it is opening in South Korea, and will relocate co-founder and partner Michael Kim to lead the new office. | 11yrs

A lawyer who worked at global firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher could face jail after an investigation by US federal agents into the alleged theft of US$5m from two law firms including Willkie, and MasterCard, one of its clients. | 11yrs

Mayer Brown announced that it has obtained formal approval from The Law Society of Hong Kong to form an association with leading PRC law firm Jingtian & Gongcheng in Hong Kong. | 11yrs

The law firm has joined forces with the Jeddah-based practice Hassan. | 11yrs

Global law firms with offices in Australia have experienced a decline in demand for their services, but are reporting increased revenues. | 11yrs

Scottish law firm McClure Naismith has gone into administration. | 11yrs

The law firm is predicting that data will form a key part of its business, with a particular role in class-action litigation. | 11yrs

US law firms have also increased the number of lawyers employed as well as raised their hourly rates. | 11yrs

The new office space that Paul Hastings is moving into next spring is to contain seating for first and second year newly-qualified lawyers in pods of 12 on the ends of floors, in spaces to be known as 'end zones'. | 11yrs

NewLaw is offering innovative business models and better work-iife balance than BigLaw, according to law professor Joan Williams of the University of California at Hastings. | 11yrs

One of the most controversial pieces of legislation has been passed regarding drones, allowing police in North Dakota to equip them with 'less than lethal' weapons. | 11yrs

The 42-year old widow of a 51-year old UK criminal lawyer, David Edwards from Chorley in Lancashire, has appeared in court and charged with his murder but she did not enter a plea. | 11yrs

The three partners are joining DLA in Manchester, with one becoming a consultant and the other two becoming partners in the infrastructure, construction and transport group. | 11yrs

Australian lawyers in private practice saw an average increase of 3% in pay this year, with 60% of them expressing satisfaction at this outcome, according to the Jacinta Fish Legal Salary Survey. | 11yrs

A fall in the number of deals that lawyers advised on in H1 2015 is being seen by the Law Society as the possible preface to 'a short term stalling in the recovery of the UK and international economy'. | 11yrs