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A law firm has filed a discrimination claim in New York on behalf of Giorgio Armani Corporation's former general counsel. | 11yrs

These research results from the University of New South Wales in Australia are in conflict with another study which shows repeatedly doing long hours reduces productivity. | 11yrs

Gateley's chief executive says the firm has become high profile since May, when it became the first publicly traded UK law firm. It also saw its profits rise 11.5 per cent in the year to April, according to its 2014/2015 accounts. | 11yrs

A wave of sophisticated Chinese investment in Australia is creating a need for advice to be given by Mandarin speakers. But there is currently a gap in the market, according to one local firm. | 11yrs

A former lawyer in leading Swedish firm Mannheimer Swartling has left the profession, opened a Michelin-starred London restaurant and is now cutting the number of tables and offering just two meal prices for diners. | 11yrs

Jerome Abelman, global GC of British American Tobacco (BAT), is kicking off the first review of the FTSE 5 company's external legal advisers since he was appointed to the role in May. | 11yrs

The main chance for foreign law firms to be able to enter India without years of delay lies with Parliament, according to experts who believe that a new decision from the Supreme Court will hold up the issue indefinitely. | 11yrs

Brad Smith, Microsoft's GC for 13 years, has been appointed as the company's head and chief legal officer. He is the first company-wide president since 2002. | 11yrs

Legal secretary comes third in a ranking of 366 occupations by their vulnerability to being replaced by automation, with a 98 per cent chance, according to research from the Martin School at Oxford University. | 11yrs

Tarek El-Assra, global head of Islamic finance at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, is moving to Morgan Lewis & Bockius. He will help the firm to focus on the UAE and Saudi Arabia. | 11yrs

There will be only equity partners in the Cleveland-based practice from next year, after the partners decided that they all need to be 'owner-stakeholders'. | 11yrs

Administrators of Glasgow law firm McClure Naismith says they have found jobs in 19 different businesses for 25 partners and 70 staff in the firm which went into administration last month. | 11yrs

Police have searched the Kobe headquarters of the Yamaken-gumi. It is the yakuza group's first police raid since it was ousted from the Yamaguchi-gumi, in a rupture of Japan's largest crime syndicate. | 11yrs

Lawyers using Chichester Combined Court have pleaded with Lord Chancellor Michael Gove to reconsider the decision to close it. | 11yrs

Pinsent Masons is to extend its existing bonus scheme by adding on a new category for 'adding value to clients and delivering excellent client service'. | 11yrs

The Supreme Court of India has said that the mental and physical fitness of lawyers should be put to the test to prove they are able to conduct trials in criminal cases and ensure that litigants don't suffer on account of their competence. | 11yrs

About 10,000 refugees on the move have taken advice from Turkish lawyers through Souktel, a 30-person start-up launched three weeks ago. | 11yrs

The accountant advising Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected Labour leader in the UK, has given an interview to the Robotics Law Journal about the difficulties of taxing the booming robotics industry. | 11yrs

Brown Rudnick's head of European IP has been the focus of media scrutiny for a week, after a female barrister responded angrily when he described a LinkedIn photograph of her as 'stunning'. | 11yrs