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Experienced lawyers in their 40s and 50s are abandoning UK practices for US rivals because they fear they will be forced to retire early to clear the decks for younger lawyers, according to consultants Jomati. | 11yrs

The Australian competition regulator has fined Visa for anti-competitive conduct. | 11yrs

Alibaba GC spends big on property after a successful twelve months at Jack Ma's e-commerce empire. | 11yrs

Centurion Law Group continues it pan-African expansion with the opening of an office in Douala this month. It is the first move by an international law firm into Cameroon and is fuelled by a resurgent oil and gas industry. | 11yrs

A NSW solicitor who fraudulently charged Legal Aid A$30,000 has been stripped of his right to practice law. | 11yrs

Saying that the legal market 'has bounced back', Shearman & Sterling is opening an office within the International Financial Centre in Dubai - emphasising the work it does for corporates and state-owned organisations. | 11yrs

Hogan Lovells has made an application to the High Court on behalf of its client, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), to resolve the issue of authority over management of the country's assets in the UK. | 11yrs

Riverview Law has taken a share in a US company specialising in AI, a move which it describes as 'a major step towards the creation of 'virtual assistants' that will improve the quality and speed of lawyers' and paralegal work'. | 11yrs

Top UK pharmaceutical companies set aside a massive £1.46bn this year to fund tax litigation, according to a report by Thompson Reuters. | 11yrs

One of the most experienced drone regulators in the world, the Swedish Transport Agency, is considering moving to a more risk-based system - thereby giving an example that could feed through to the rules in many other states. | 11yrs

Disappointing returns in some areas of the legal insurance sector are believed to have encouraged Parabis, the first private equity-backed ABS, to review its business strategy and begin some potential sales discussions. | 11yrs

Research from marketing collective First4Lawyers has found that claimant lawyers are spending £208,000 per day on marketing, with the internet the fastest-growing marketing channel. | 11yrs

Ke Jie Law Office, based in Beijing, has formed a global legal network service with thirteen foreign firms. | 11yrs

A town hall efficiency drive has seen the spend by local authorities on law firms and barristers fall £18bn to £156bn in 2013/14, according to research from Thomson Reuters. | 11yrs

King & Wood Mallesons is responding to the flight of some of its partners, particularly from London, by reforming its lockstep system and creating a new resource to pay over £2m to recruit big-billers from other firms. | 11yrs

The legal sector appears to be demonstrating a textbook example of the 'winner-take-all' economy, with smaller numbers of specialists doing well and the rest getting leaner returns, according to Professor Benjamin Barton. | 11yrs

Issues relating to sound recordings could become more of an issue - especially in the context of the camera and audio recording equipment carried by drones, according to the French privacy regulator in an interview with the Robotics Law Journal. | 11yrs

The second tier of UK firms is growing faster than the top 25. But Allen & Overy saw revenues increase the most among the Magic Circle, with four per cent growth, according to the results of LB100, the Legal Business 100. | 11yrs

11KBW silk Sean Jones has begun an appeal on Just Giving requesting lawyers donate a billable hour to support Save the Children's work for refugees. | 11yrs