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Scottish law firm McClure Naismith has gone into administration. | 11yrs

The law firm is predicting that data will form a key part of its business, with a particular role in class-action litigation. | 11yrs

US law firms have also increased the number of lawyers employed as well as raised their hourly rates. | 11yrs

The new office space that Paul Hastings is moving into next spring is to contain seating for first and second year newly-qualified lawyers in pods of 12 on the ends of floors, in spaces to be known as 'end zones'. | 11yrs

NewLaw is offering innovative business models and better work-iife balance than BigLaw, according to law professor Joan Williams of the University of California at Hastings. | 11yrs

One of the most controversial pieces of legislation has been passed regarding drones, allowing police in North Dakota to equip them with 'less than lethal' weapons. | 11yrs

The 42-year old widow of a 51-year old UK criminal lawyer, David Edwards from Chorley in Lancashire, has appeared in court and charged with his murder but she did not enter a plea. | 11yrs

The three partners are joining DLA in Manchester, with one becoming a consultant and the other two becoming partners in the infrastructure, construction and transport group. | 11yrs

Australian lawyers in private practice saw an average increase of 3% in pay this year, with 60% of them expressing satisfaction at this outcome, according to the Jacinta Fish Legal Salary Survey. | 11yrs

A fall in the number of deals that lawyers advised on in H1 2015 is being seen by the Law Society as the possible preface to 'a short term stalling in the recovery of the UK and international economy'. | 11yrs

Sole practitioners have 'done miserably since the 1980s', according to Professor Benjamin Barton, author of 'Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession'. | 11yrs

After 20 years of preparation, Indian law firms are ready to compete with law firms from abroad, according to the president of the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf). | 11yrs

Prosperoware, the Philadelphia-based software company, says it is also supplying 66 of the Am Law 200 practices and that its clients include Akin Gump, Goodwin Procter, DLA Piper and Duane Morris. | 11yrs

Anjarwlla & Khanna (A&K), the 80-lawyer practice which is the largest corporate law firm in East Africa, is installing software from Deltek Maconomy to streamline its administration, matter management and other functions. | 11yrs

Legal work for mining lawyers is the most likely area to be hit in Australia by the falls in international stock exchanges and the economic problems coming from China, according to local lawyers. | 11yrs

The former general counsel at Dewey, the US firm which ceased operations in May 2012, has given evidence about how the 1,000-lawyer practice was 'in crisis' from early on that year. | 11yrs

City of London-based law firm Travers Smith is hiking pay for the most junior lawyers by nearly 9% - believed to be the biggest rise at this level in leading London firms - and is followed by Mayer Brown which is putting them up by nearly 8%. | 11yrs

Slater + Gordon, the listed Australian law group, has delayed publication of its annual results for four days, creating speculation that it might have an unpleasant surprise to disclose over its UK purchase, the troubled legal arm of Quindell. | 11yrs

The lateral hiring of partners went up by 10% between 2007 and 2011, during which period the number of promotions of associates to partnership went down 21%. | 11yrs