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Freshfields is understood to be making waves in Manchester by offering salaries to paralegals that are 27 per cent above the market rate, as it staffs up to open its new administration centre there this summer. | 11yrs

A growing conundrum for top in-house lawyers at luxury brand businesses is that while their legal teams are generally fairly small, workloads have increased dramatically over recent years. Jonathan Ames reports from the Luxury Law Summit. | 11yrs

After five months of deliberation, seven Supreme Court Judges have handed down the much anticipated 3rd Judgment in Coventry v Lawrence, providing certainty to recovering litigation costs. | 11yrs

LVMH is attempting to grow its media empire with the purchase of French daily newspaper Le Parisien. The group already owns the business daily Les Echos. | 11yrs

Bulgari is stepping further into the hotel industry. The Italian jeweller has reached agreement with Dubai developer Meraas Holding to build a luxury resort on Jumeirah Bay Island. | 11yrs

The Italian firm's US office will be headed up by resident partner Yan Pecoraro. | 11yrs

Leading offshore law firm Appleby acted as Bermuda counsel for Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited (CTEI) in the spin-off and listing of CTEI on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. | 11yrs

Alongside the creation of a £20m R&D fund, the UK government has published a set of guidelines to cover the training requirements for test drivers, rules on safety and other issues. | 11yrs

A lawyer in New Zealand has said that the behaviour of employees 'even if they are on their own time' will be taken into account by employers - referring to a case in which two government workers were recently suspended in relation to a video. | 11yrs

L'Oreal's former head patent lawyer Steven Trzaska is suing the beauty company, which he alleges fired him because he refused to file applications that were not patentable. | 11yrs

Americans and Japanese spend the most on luxury goods, with the aspirational consumers taking the lead. | 11yrs

Richemont chairman Johann Rupert has reportedly invited LVMH and Kering to join the luxury retail website that will be formed by the merger of Yoox and Net-a-Porter. | 11yrs

A new study from OHIM, the EU's intellectual property agency, shows that the sale of fake clothes, shoes and accessories in the EU equals nearly 10 per cent of the total sales in the sector throughout the EU-28. | 11yrs

The software company provides document management services to many of the top players in the legal marketplace. | 11yrs

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

As part of a management shake-up, Standard Chartered has given additional responsibilities to two members of the legal department. | 11yrs

The 1,800-lawyer practice with 30 offices around the world has created the post of executive chair - and the role is is understood to include developing international growth as well as overall strategy. | 11yrs

The leading Japanese firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto featured Toshiba in a corporate governance book it published in May, unaware of the fact that the company had been routinely overstating its results over the previous six years. | 11yrs

An analysis of $18 billion of invoices could indicate that BigLaw firms are on the way back, having re-engineered their workforce and reviewed billing. | 11yrs