A Duane Morris partner has been released from a sanctions order by the judge who imposed it and praised as an 'admirable person in the community', after she took more ethics classed than he had prescribed and engaged with local groups. | 11yrs
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is in merger talks with Chadbourne & Parke, according to seven anonymous sources that have been in communication with Bloomberg Business of Law. | 11yrs
Bas Boris Visser, innovation chief at Clifford Chance, warns that change will happen faster in the next decade and that the next generation of lawyers must be used to negotiate it, in a speech at The Lawyer Business Leadership Summit. | 11yrs
The AmLaw 200 firm is setting up a multi-disciplinary team to advise on issues including compliance, insurance, intellectual property, privacy, litigation and finance. | 11yrs
Max Schrems, the law student turned privacy activist, has won the support of the Advocate General - the specialist whose opinion is usually followed by the ECJ - in his challenge to Facebook's practice of holding data from Europe in the US. | 11yrs
The Brazilian government is in talks with lawmakers to increase revenues by legalising gambling, after they signalled that the government will struggle to overcome a budget deficit by passing a controversial new tax. | 11yrs
VW general counsel David Geanacopoulos is dealing with roughly 20 US federal lawsuits and an Environment Protection Agency investigation, following recent revelations about the company's cars. | 11yrs
The Big Four accountancy firm, previously known as Ernst & Young, plans to increase its UK legal team from 30 to 60 lawyers within a year. | 11yrs
Nearly one quarter (23 per cent) of US law firms with over 500 lawyers were subject to data breaches last year, up from 17 per cent the year before, according to the 2015 Legal Technology Survey of the American Bar Association. | 11yrs
The Supreme Court has released a statement defending Lord Sumption, after his comments about equal representation of women at the top of the legal profession led to a barrage of criticism on Twitter. | 11yrs
Gazprom is attempting to settle a long running antitrust investigation by the European Commission, the Russian energy giant said this week. | 11yrs
The first GC Futures Summit will look at how GCs are breaking through the business glass ceiling, as well as shaping the legal department of the future. | 11yrs
Lawyers are at 'high risk' of being unwittingly drawn into money laundering schemes as foreign investors make extensive use of Australian markets to launder their funds, according to a former Australian Federal Police officer who works in the area. | 11yrs
New York State judges are considering responding to globalisation by letting foreigners advise on transactions or on short-term matters of litigation under so-called 'fly-in, fly-out' measures. | 11yrs
The world's largest car maker faces the largest legal bill in automotive history, as it admits to programming cars to cheat on US pollution tests. | 11yrs
Michael Kent, the Linklaters head of finance and projects, was identified as the most open about his aims at the outset, but has been excluded from the three-man shortlist for the post. | 11yrs
SNCF, the French state rail operator, faces a huge legal bill after losing a 16 year battle with former employees who had suffered racial discrimination. | 11yrs
Microsoft's assistant general counsel has issued a warning for companies on the perils of cloud computing and why the legal department should be involved in selecting providers. | 11yrs
Zhong Lun decided on its next phase of development at a partner conference at the weekend - to remain independent and build up a global 'best friends' network rather than going down the merger route. | 11yrs
The Australian Law Students Association (ALSA) says that unpaid internships in large law firms have amounted to 'slave labour', highlighting one firm that planned to charge A$22,000 to graduates for a two-year work arrangement. | 11yrs