Only a fortnight after it was estimated that 30 per cent of Indian lawyers are fake, it has emerged that there is no reliable data and that it will take at least six months to set up and run a verification process. | 11yrs
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As the rest of the world awaits the launch of US drone regulations to kickstart the sector, Dentons has recruited the man most involved in the area on the government side. | 11yrs
Baker & McKenzie's deep roots in Asia and strong connections to the US are two of the main reasons that the practice retained its top position in the rankings by brand specialist Acritas. | 11yrs
With over four in ten leading UK law firms offering medical consultations with a doctor in the office, nearly two in ten also bring dentists in to look after the well being of their partners and staff. | 11yrs
Fees of US$994,000 run up by Akin Gump have been criticised as being 'excessive and unreasonable' by the bank. | 11yrs
Dechert has agreed to end a dispute relating to 11 partners who were recruited from Coudert Brothers a month after it announced it was applying for bankruptcy. | 11yrs
A criminal defence solicitor has argued that the public should focus on why technology companies are selling products and services unfit for purpose, rather than blaming hackers for the rise in cybercrime. | 11yrs
Announcing its opening in Mexico City, the international firm says it is solidifying 'its position as a market leader in connection with Mexico's energy reform'. | 11yrs
Dentons Dacheng, the world's largest law firm, is understood to be in discussions with London practice Matthew Arnold & Baldwin, whose revenue dropped 13 per cent over the last financial year. | 11yrs
An eight-lawyer, California-based team is poised to leave DLA Piper and to open a base for King & Spalding in Sacramento in September. | 11yrs
Problems attaching to listed law firms, particularly Quindell and Slater & Gordon (which has bought the Quindell legal business), could put paid for the time being on moves to open up the market through Alternative Business Structures. | 11yrs
The head of the US roads safety body has called on the auto sector to put its own standards in place - to reduce the risk of hackers taking control of the wheel when drivers are on the road. | 11yrs
Richard Walker, a former partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, is to leave the bank at the end of December, having been at the legal helm while Deutsche struggled to deal with regulators around the world on a range of disciplinary issues. | 11yrs
A weekly round up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs
Lawyers are the main example cited by a US professor explaining why the friendships between men in blue-collar industries and those in white-collar professions differ. | 11yrs
Hopes to clean up the notoriously corrupt and mismanaged sector are lying with a Harvard-trained lawyer and former Exxon executive, who was appointed this month as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. | 11yrs
Dentons is one of a number of US-based law firms which have agreed to train a robot developed by the University of Toronto to carry out basic legal research, scanning documents and case law. | 11yrs
The Seoul office will be the 39th in the law firm's international network, opened to support long-standing project finance clients and to broaden advice given on M&A, private equity and dispute resolution. | 11yrs
The best paid general counsel in the state of Florida is Thomas P. Hunt of SBA Communications, whose pay was $5.54m in 2014. | 11yrs
Littler, the employment law firm, is opening a new office in Austin - which it describes as 'one of the nation's most dynamic and growing cities' - by relocating three of its shareholders from Dallas. | 11yrs