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In a survey by Crown Records Management, 70 percent of IT decision makers in the legal industry said their company have lost important data. | 11yrs

Clifford Chance has announced that Jessica Gladstone is to join its London office as a partner. Ms Gladstone specialises in public and private international law, advising multinationals, financial institutions, foreign investors and sovereign states. | 11yrs

Hogan Lovells has announced Oliver J. Armas as the new managing partner of its New York office, while finance lawyer Rober Masman is to join the firm's global finance practice as a partner in the Amsterdam office. | 11yrs

Lawyers for three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders accused of fraud have told a judge that they won't call any witnesses to bolster their defence and plan to rest their case when the jury returns on Tuesday. | 11yrs

Eight City firms have adopted a contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility among staff, after a government report criticised professional service firms for consistently excluding bright working-class applicants from their workforce. | 11yrs

Reed Smith has taken on Gregory Wang as a partner in Hong Kong from Morrison & Foerster, and two local partners in Singapore - Calvin Chan from Skadden and Kohe Hasan from Oon & Bazul - as it looks at gaining Singaporean local law capability. | 11yrs

News Corp has announced that Rebekah Brooks will return as head of its UK division after resigning over a tabloid phone hacking scandal, though it may face a new legal challenge from the Crown Prosecution Service. | 11yrs

Taylor Wessing has announced a merger with Dutch firm Deterink, in a move that will see the firm gain two new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. | 11yrs

A US professor has identified the age of law firm leaders and ownership structures as factors that make firms out of sync with the clients they serve and mean value cannot be maximised. | 11yrs

US in-house pay for corporate counsels and paralegals is up an average of three per cent, research by the Robert Half legal has found. | 11yrs

A weekly round up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs

The Indian antitrust authority has released a lengthy report evaluating allegations of monopoly abuses by Google. The document's release coincides with the launch of a platform to help companies to collectively sue the search engine. | 11yrs

According to a survey by the International Legal Technology Association and InsideLegal, security management has beaten email management as the biggest issue that legal IT departments must confront for the first time in eight years. | 11yrs

Cisco's lawyers at Winston & Strawn claim in a lawsuit that HP is refusing to pay a US$58 million balance. | 11yrs

GCs and law firms don't see eye to eye on billing, strategy and procurement, research by Corporate Counsel Exchange has revealed. | 11yrs

The litigation boutique has announced it is opening in South Korea, and will relocate co-founder and partner Michael Kim to lead the new office. | 11yrs

A lawyer who worked at global firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher could face jail after an investigation by US federal agents into the alleged theft of US$5m from two law firms including Willkie, and MasterCard, one of its clients. | 11yrs

Mayer Brown announced that it has obtained formal approval from The Law Society of Hong Kong to form an association with leading PRC law firm Jingtian & Gongcheng in Hong Kong. | 11yrs

The law firm has joined forces with the Jeddah-based practice Hassan. | 11yrs