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A snap poll has revealed that general counsel believe they have a greater role to play in company ethics following the VW debacle, one of the many subjects to be discussed at next month's GC Futures Summit. | 11yrs

Iran has promised to take international legal action against the rulers of Saudi Arabia over the deadly Hajj stampede, as tension between the two countries continues to mount. | 11yrs

According to the Law Society, international law firms based in the UK must be allowed to recruit lawyers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) for London to remain a global centre of legal excellence. | 11yrs

Some 42 per cent of US law firms have taken on staff with 'primarily market-facing responsibilities', suggesting that the traditional winners of work, the partners themselves, are becoming willing to share the role with non-lawyers. | 11yrs

Only 11 per cent of lawyers taking part in a technology survey believe that their firms have cyber liability cover, despite the fact that 42 per cent say that the IT run from their workplaces has been infected with a virus, spyware or malware. | 11yrs

Debevoise & Plimpton and White & Case are among firms that have been brought in to fight out an arbitration case against South Korea from Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC). | 11yrs

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is set to announce that Washington, DC-based partner David T. Dekker is its new chairman-elect. His election comes at a critical time for the firm, which is having exploratory talks with Chadbourne and Parke. | 11yrs

Hillary Clinton, Democratic contender for the presidential candidacy, has pointed the finger at her lawyers at the State Department in the controversy over her reading of emails through a personal server. | 11yrs

Singapore has begun legal action against five companies it believes to be responsible for fires in Indonesia that are causing severe air pollution in the city-state. | 11yrs

New rules intended to improve internal oversight at banks could put junior bankers at risk of being fired by managers attempting to protect themselves, a London firm of employment lawyers has warned. | 11yrs

The new chief executive of scandal-ridden Volkswagen, Matthias Mueller, is to oversee a strengthening of the corporate governance system as part of a strategy to regain the public's trust. | 11yrs

All of the top 30 Chinese law firms, bar one, saw 'stellar' growth over the last year, according to The Lawyer China Elite 2015. Beijing-based Han Kun had the strongest growth, with its revenue jumping by 78 per cent. | 11yrs

Japan made amendments to its Civil Aeronautics Act this month in order to allow the use of drones in areas where they are deemed safe. | 11yrs

Thirty-one lawyers acquired in a January merger with Edwards Wildman Palmer have been lost from Locke Lord's Boston office since the end of April. | 11yrs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is one of six firms to join the OnRamp Fellowship, along with Morrison & Foerster, Loeb & Loeb, Stoel Rives, Wiley Rein and Wilson Elser. | 11yrs

Claims made to professional indemnity insurer Elite this year totalling £2.5m may be only the tip of the iceberg in an epidemic of so-called 'vishing' fraud, where callers posing as bank employees empty office and client accounts. | 11yrs

Research conducted by Oxford Economics for the Law Society has found that the legal services sector in the UK would be 'disproportionately disadvantaged' if the UK were to completely withdraw from the EU. | 11yrs

As lawyers research the possibility that Volkswagen fixed its emissions equipment in cars sold in the UK, specialists are saying that any collective action that results would break records in UK litigation. | 11yrs

As the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) issues an alert per day over cyber attacks, law firms are being warned to review their prevention systems in order to reduce the risk of fines and reputational damage. | 11yrs