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The move of Allen & Overy and other leading law firms into using 'flexi lawyers' could be a crucial part of the formula of keeping down costs and meeting client demands, according to consultant Dr George Beaton. | 11yrs

Morgan Lewis & Bockius, which took 750 lawyers from the now-defunct Bingham last year, has said that it still has 'work to do' on diversity - in response to news that MassMutual stopped dealing with Bingham because of a perceived lack of diversity. | 11yrs

Thomas Rombach, head of the Michigan Bar Association, one of the most advanced in IT in the US, has warned lawyers that regulation will not be able to protect them against the progress of technology. | 11yrs

Long hours is blamed as the main cause (by 58% of respondents), followed by difficult clients (38%) and constant interruptions (35%), among the 1,000 UK partners, associates and trainees polled in the survey published in The Lawyer. | 11yrs

Courses are beginning to be set up to educate potential users of drones on the requirements of civil aviation authorities and the other rules they need to follow. | 11yrs

The employment rate for 2014 has risen to 86.7 - up over 2% points on last year, partly thanks to a smaller number of students reading the law. | 11yrs

Australia could be a 'fabulous place' for international arbitration but its geographical location is a disadvantage and so far it 'just hasn't taken off', according to a leading barrister with experience of Australia, Singapore and London. | 11yrs

Germany's biggest bank has warned that it might not reach its 2020 performance goals if it has to continue to make large payments becuase of regulatory fines and settlements. | 11yrs

Some law firms are likely to decide in a matter of a few years to publish their content on a range of platforms including Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Twitter Video and Flipboard, according to experts. | 11yrs

Chair Peter Kalis has spoken about the departure of 90 partners this year from the 2,000-lawyer firm - saying that they are a natural outcome from the firm's promotion and feedback strategy. | 11yrs

The official investigation is being launched following the discovery that nine military and civilian lawyers at the US base at Guantanamo Bay have or had cancer which could have been caused by conditions at the detention centre. | 11yrs

The international firm has recruited a former UBS Securities managing director in order to carve out a new group in the US, after nine lawyers left from New York and Washington DC for Paul Hastings in July. | 11yrs

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has said that a challenge to the existing ban is 'entirely without merit'. | 11yrs

Lawyers and others involved in the US's Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative face numerous difficulties in the tracing, tracking and identifying of the assets as well as issues of political will, according to a specialist at McDermott Will & Emery. | 11yrs

Dickstein Shapiro has lost a ten-lawyer team to Liner in LA - not because the lawyers were unhappy or concerned but because they were offered the chance to concentrate more on client service and the law and less on the needs of hourly billing. | 11yrs

LawPath, an Australian business, has set up a database of 200 legal documents in a relationship with LexisNexis which allows users to download and customise the texts. | 11yrs

Toshiba is including a lawyer in its six-person revitalisation committee whose aim is to prevent further improprieties occurring after recent revelations about the over-statement of profits for six years. | 11yrs

The company has bought MLex, a group that analyses regulatory risk in different jurisdictions around the world. | 11yrs

Law firms are among the largest financial supporters of the Hillary Clinton campaign to become the Democratic presidential candidate - as her accounts reveal that she has raised £46m. | 11yrs