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The fraud trial of three former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives in New York might serve as a warning to other firms that the legal sector is not always at ease with standards of financial transparency required in the outside world. | 11yrs

After a record set of results a year ago, the Magic Circle practice has seen profits per equity partner fall two per cent in 2014/15 on top of a 0.7 per cent fall in turnover. | 11yrs

The planned merger between food companies Kraft and Heinz has seen a number of senior executives exit, including Kraft's GC. | 11yrs

The surging robotics market - estimated to be worth $82b within 10 years in the drone sector alone - is expected to need the services of vast numbers of lawyers across numerous disciplines, according to a new title launched tomorrow. | 11yrs

A US civil rights lawyer who has not been detained and questioned about clients in a career spanning 20 years believes that three recent lengthy border checks could be related to his work for an activist environmental group. | 11yrs

Chadbourne & Parke has increased its 100-lawyer global energy team by the recruitment of two partners from DLA Piper in the last month - Ben Donovan in June and Ursula Owczarkowski this week. | 11yrs

CEO of AdventBalance Ken Jagger has predicted that traditional Australian firms will continue to struggle to maintain their market share, as US and UK firms flood the market and boutique specialist firms increase their dominance. | 11yrs

Baker & McKenzie has expanded its disputes practice with the hire of Joel Greer as a partner in its Tokyo office. | 11yrs

Hong Kong-based M&A partner at Morrison & Foerster Charles Chau has described the tight timetable and other complications in the merger of the state's two train manufacturers, at the order of the government, last year. | 11yrs

There were 48 mergers among US firms in the first half of the year, the highest level recorded by Altman Weil in the nine years that it has been collecting the figures. | 11yrs

Top 15 global firm Mayer Brown is to sign an association agreement with one of the oldest and largest Chinese firms, Jingtian & Gongcheng, under which the two parties are expected to second staff, cross-sell and engage in joint marketing. | 11yrs

The New York managing partner of Reed Smith has edited a white paper highlighting drones as a 'game changer' and discussing the 'serious legal issues' they raise as well. | 11yrs

The military police has searched 91 establishments, including law and accountancy firms, and seized 1,500 vehicles as part of an investigation into the buying and selling of cars - in what is the largest seizure of such vehicles by these squads. | 11yrs

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired oil and gas lawyer Paul Greening as a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office from Vinson & Elkins. | 11yrs

UK law firms are now merging for growth instead of financial necessity, according to research evidencing a decline in the number of mergers last year. | 11yrs

Norton Rose Fulbright and Corrs Chambers Westgarth are said to have been building teams for two years to handle a series of disputes in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry that are expected to last years and involve 'mind blowing' sums. | 11yrs

A man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after explosive devices were sent to law firms and other businesses in the city of Winnipeg. | 11yrs

Investors are starting to talk up the prospects for increased growth and M&A activity in the drone sector once long-awaited rules are introduced to pave the way for commercial flights. | 11yrs

Leading firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has lost out to rival Dua Associates in a fight over the team of senior disputes partner Shiraz Patodia. | 11yrs