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Both Fortune and Bloomberg Business have run articles in the last few days asking if entrants to the legal profession are becoming dumber. | 11yrs

A top legal website claims that Cravath Swaine partner and 'multiple attorneys' at Baker & McKenzie are listed as being among the clients of the Ashely Madison dating agency whose identities have recently been compromised by hackers, | 11yrs

Paul Motion, partner in Glasgow and Edinburgh firm bto, is making two appearances in his own show, 'Phoney or False Reviews Online - What Can I Do?', at the Edinburgh Fringe theatre festival. | 11yrs

Lawyer jobs are vulnerable to the progress of artificial intelligence, according to the author of new title 'Humans need not apply'. Jerry Kaplan is a lecturer on the legal informatics course at Stanford University. | 11yrs

Five local legal practices in Vietnam have got together to create the LawTeam Alliance - and they expect to announce the arrival of other 'major local law firms' to the group. | 11yrs

Large and small law firms are working on their own client technology innovations, including the creation of apps, according to Lawyers Weekly in Australia. | 11yrs

Executives at Universal Music Group have been recorded saying that 'the business has been controlled by lawyers for a long time' in a call released by entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, with whom the Group had been in litigation. | 11yrs

Over 180 law firms including Davis Polk & Wardwell have applied to join the platform, which will be known as the Legal Services Information Sharing and Analysis Organization. | 11yrs

Mayer Brown is to retain just 55 per cent of its newly-qualified cohort this autumn - one of the lowest rates announced by London offices this year. | 11yrs

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, the Tokyo-based practice whose clients include Panasonic and Sanyo Electronics, is to open a three-lawyer base in Nagoya in September. | 11yrs

After making 'little effort to improve the product while the good times rolled', the legal profession is now creating 'a lot of shallow innovation', according to the director of client solutions at Chicago-based Novus Law. | 11yrs

An increasing number of litigation funders has made class actions easier to bring, according to research from King & Wood Mallesons, meaning that many more businesses could be vulnerable. | 11yrs

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

After a three-month trial, Herbert Smith Freehills is extending an agile working programme from a group of partners and other fee-earners to cover all its practice groups in London. | 11yrs

Arab Bank has agreed to settle a class action litigation by 297 victims of terrorism, days before an unprecedented damages trial was due to begin. | 11yrs

Google has been given two weeks longer to respond to a European Commission antitrust charge that the search engine giant 'abused its dominant position' to promote its online shopping services and mobile phone software. | 11yrs

Multinationals are counting the cost of the explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last week, with rating agency Fitch declaring on August 18 that the insurance bill could reach US$1.5bn. The blasts killed 114 people and injured more than 700. | 11yrs

There is now media speculation that the energy company will come in for the biggest corruption penalties ever levied, once all internal and external inquiries are completed. | 11yrs

Singapore-headquartered Rajah & Tann is launching a contract lawyer business. It will begin through a network of the firm's own alumni, who will work as in-house freelance legal advisers. | 11yrs