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Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, the Tokyo-based practice whose clients include Panasonic and Sanyo Electronics, is to open a three-lawyer base in Nagoya in September. | 11yrs

After making 'little effort to improve the product while the good times rolled', the legal profession is now creating 'a lot of shallow innovation', according to the director of client solutions at Chicago-based Novus Law. | 11yrs

An increasing number of litigation funders has made class actions easier to bring, according to research from King & Wood Mallesons, meaning that many more businesses could be vulnerable. | 11yrs

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

After a three-month trial, Herbert Smith Freehills is extending an agile working programme from a group of partners and other fee-earners to cover all its practice groups in London. | 11yrs

Arab Bank has agreed to settle a class action litigation by 297 victims of terrorism, days before an unprecedented damages trial was due to begin. | 11yrs

Google has been given two weeks longer to respond to a European Commission antitrust charge that the search engine giant 'abused its dominant position' to promote its online shopping services and mobile phone software. | 11yrs

Multinationals are counting the cost of the explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last week, with rating agency Fitch declaring on August 18 that the insurance bill could reach US$1.5bn. The blasts killed 114 people and injured more than 700. | 11yrs

There is now media speculation that the energy company will come in for the biggest corruption penalties ever levied, once all internal and external inquiries are completed. | 11yrs

Singapore-headquartered Rajah & Tann is launching a contract lawyer business. It will begin through a network of the firm's own alumni, who will work as in-house freelance legal advisers. | 11yrs

A New York Times article inspired by employee unhappiness at Amazon describes the legal sector as 'one of the most brutal' regarding employee commitment. | 11yrs

Only 5 per cent of recruiting partners and associates believe that law school graduates have enough practical skills to carry out the work. | 11yrs

The head of the Czech Energy Regulatory Office (ERU) has been accused by the police of breach of trust and abuse of power in relation to the appointment of her deputy. | 11yrs

A Delaware chancery court has sanctioned Kramer Levin, after one of its lawyers instructed a colleague in his firm to not answer 75 questions when acting as a witness in a case. | 11yrs

The increased spend is expected to occur over the next decade, according to a package of information put together by LexisNexis' Business of Law Blog. | 11yrs

Alexandra Hageluken, head of banking and capital markets at Clifford Chance in Germany, has become the third German CC partner to join Latham & Watkins this year. | 11yrs

The legal sector is at the 'beginning of a demographic crisis', with half of the typical client base having been brought in by lawyers aged 60 or over, according to a leading consultant. | 11yrs

The value gap between client and law firm perception is also 'getting bigger', said Stephen Poor, chair of Seyfarth Shaw, at a Bloomberg Big Law Summit recently. | 11yrs

Fixed-price firm Riverview Law is to train six existing members of staff under the legal training programme that starts in October, nearly doubling the number of trainees at the practice. | 11yrs