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After 20 years of preparation, Indian law firms are ready to compete with law firms from abroad, according to the president of the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf). | 11yrs

Prosperoware, the Philadelphia-based software company, says it is also supplying 66 of the Am Law 200 practices and that its clients include Akin Gump, Goodwin Procter, DLA Piper and Duane Morris. | 11yrs

Anjarwlla & Khanna (A&K), the 80-lawyer practice which is the largest corporate law firm in East Africa, is installing software from Deltek Maconomy to streamline its administration, matter management and other functions. | 11yrs

Legal work for mining lawyers is the most likely area to be hit in Australia by the falls in international stock exchanges and the economic problems coming from China, according to local lawyers. | 11yrs

The former general counsel at Dewey, the US firm which ceased operations in May 2012, has given evidence about how the 1,000-lawyer practice was 'in crisis' from early on that year. | 11yrs

City of London-based law firm Travers Smith is hiking pay for the most junior lawyers by nearly 9% - believed to be the biggest rise at this level in leading London firms - and is followed by Mayer Brown which is putting them up by nearly 8%. | 11yrs

Slater + Gordon, the listed Australian law group, has delayed publication of its annual results for four days, creating speculation that it might have an unpleasant surprise to disclose over its UK purchase, the troubled legal arm of Quindell. | 11yrs

The lateral hiring of partners went up by 10% between 2007 and 2011, during which period the number of promotions of associates to partnership went down 21%. | 11yrs

Edith Shih advises private practice lawyers seeking an easier career option to look elsewhere. | 11yrs

Third Point, a US based hedge fund, has avoided a large fine by settling with the US government over claims it breached antitrust law in 2011 when it acquired a minority stake in Yahoo. | 11yrs

A weekly round-up of moves across the globe. | 11yrs

A contract lawyer service, LawFlex, has been set up in Israel, meaning that temporary lawyers are now available in large parts of the globe - the US, Europe and Asia, in particular - as an alternative to hiring a law firm in the traditional way. | 11yrs

Paris-based luxury brand owner Kering has won a court order banning sales of counterfeit versions of its high-end goods by certain vendors in ecommerce company Alibaba Group's online marketplaces. | 11yrs

Benesh Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff has opened its eighth US office in the US by recruiting litigation partners Andrew Jarzyna and David Pope from Ulmer & Berne. | 11yrs

Shaun Lascelles is returning to the London office of Ashurst, and his move is being seen as an upturn in the fortunes of the city of London-based practice which has lost some of its main corporate lawyers since 2013. | 11yrs

Chinese practice Ke Jie has set up Cathay Associates, a network of firms including offices in Paris, Tirana, Bangkok and Beijing. | 11yrs

David Leitch, general counsel of Ford, says that he seeks 'expertise' and 'value' when appointing law firms, rather than specifically seeking practices of a particular size and scope - and he warns against the dilution of quality as firms expand. | 11yrs

David Edwards, 51, a criminal solicitor from Lancashire in the UK, died in his home with one stab wound, days after returning from honeymooning in Las Vegas - and his widow Sharon, 42, is understood to have been taken into custody. | 11yrs

As concerns rise that a proposed privacy law in California could stifle innovation, it emerges that a total of 156 drone bills have been considered by 45 US states with 18 of them passing into law. | 11yrs