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Announcing its opening in Mexico City, the international firm says it is solidifying 'its position as a market leader in connection with Mexico's energy reform'. | 11yrs

Dentons Dacheng, the world's largest law firm, is understood to be in discussions with London practice Matthew Arnold & Baldwin, whose revenue dropped 13 per cent over the last financial year. | 11yrs

An eight-lawyer, California-based team is poised to leave DLA Piper and to open a base for King & Spalding in Sacramento in September. | 11yrs

Problems attaching to listed law firms, particularly Quindell and Slater & Gordon (which has bought the Quindell legal business), could put paid for the time being on moves to open up the market through Alternative Business Structures. | 11yrs

The head of the US roads safety body has called on the auto sector to put its own standards in place - to reduce the risk of hackers taking control of the wheel when drivers are on the road. | 11yrs

Richard Walker, a former partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, is to leave the bank at the end of December, having been at the legal helm while Deutsche struggled to deal with regulators around the world on a range of disciplinary issues. | 11yrs

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

Lawyers are the main example cited by a US professor explaining why the friendships between men in blue-collar industries and those in white-collar professions differ. | 11yrs

Hopes to clean up the notoriously corrupt and mismanaged sector are lying with a Harvard-trained lawyer and former Exxon executive, who was appointed this month as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. | 11yrs

Dentons is one of a number of US-based law firms which have agreed to train a robot developed by the University of Toronto to carry out basic legal research, scanning documents and case law. | 11yrs

The Seoul office will be the 39th in the law firm's international network, opened to support long-standing project finance clients and to broaden advice given on M&A, private equity and dispute resolution. | 11yrs

The best paid general counsel in the state of Florida is Thomas P. Hunt of SBA Communications, whose pay was $5.54m in 2014. | 11yrs

Littler, the employment law firm, is opening a new office in Austin - which it describes as 'one of the nation's most dynamic and growing cities' - by relocating three of its shareholders from Dallas. | 11yrs

Six out of ten law firms working in conveyancing are planning to adopt the digital platform PEXA (Property Exchange Australia) within two years, according to a survey of 500 practitioners. | 11yrs

The 450-lawyer, Boston-based practice is no longer to offer European patent prosecution from its London office after the departure of three patent lawyers to Cooley and the decision of the office head, Julian Crump, to leave to set up his own firm. | 11yrs

The Supreme People's Court has established a research centre at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law to deal with legal affairs for the 'One Belt, One Road' foreign investment scheme. | 11yrs

The 1,050-lawyer firm and Gowling are two of the firms whose HR teams are encouraging staff to download a specialist app that monitors signals in the voice during phone calls, but not what is said, and alerts them if they appear stressed. | 11yrs

A 'phenomenal' upturn in work, thanks to Chinese investors, is having a 'very positive impact on workflow' on law firms in the big cities of south-eastern Australia, according to a Brisbane law firm. | 11yrs

The 360-lawyer international firm has pushed up pay for top equity partners by 111 per cent from £590,000 to £1.25m over 2014/15 - as a way of rewarding the 'top performers' better. | 11yrs