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Walt Disney general counsel Alan Braverman has topped a survey of high earning heads of legal by Corporate Counsel magazine. | 11yrs

The team is being led by Micah Green, who will head the Steptoe & Johnson financial services team as well as chairing the government affairs & public policy group from the Washington DC office. | 11yrs

The lawyers are joining FisherBroyles LLP, a cloud-based firm that was started in Atlanta in 2002 and now has a team of 120 professionals. | 11yrs

Salvatore Ferragamo has taken the unusual step of going public on the scale of counterfeiting against its brand. | 11yrs

Luís Pais Antunes has become PLMJ's new managing partner for the next three years, taking over from Manuel Santos Vítor, who had held the position since 2008. | 11yrs

The $450 billion luxury industry may be in a state of flux with mixed messages from China, but there was plenty of optimism at the Luxury Law Summit in London, reports Jonathan Ames. | 11yrs

The number of external legal advisers who charge over $1,000 an hour has gone up by 75 per cent at the General Electric Company. | 11yrs

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has submitted comments as part of the review of the bill on intelligence, and made several suggestions to bring the law into compliance with the right to privacy and the right to legal advice. | 11yrs

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced on Sunday that every undocumented immigrant child in New York will now be given access to a lawyer in order to plead their case. | 11yrs

Average debt levels held by US law firm partners have fallen a third since 2008 - partly because of concern over the problems that happened at heavily indebted Dewey & LeBoeuf, according to research from Citi Private Bank. | 11yrs

The nine-office, 420-lawyer international firm is teaming up a firm of risk mitigation specialists and a set of barristers chambers to offer a 'full-service cyber investigations and compliance team'. | 11yrs

Talks on the privacy aspects of drones will start in two weeks time, following a request received by the National Telecommunications & Information Administration from President Obama, sent by him a fortnight after a drone crashed by the White House. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy is pushing up its newly qualified pay rate in the UK by 18 per cent to put it on a par with the £78,500 offered by Freshfields - and leaving the two firms in the lead among Magic Circle practices. | 11yrs

In a move that suggests some tax havens still have a bright future in spite of calls to reduce their effect on world taxation, offshore 12-office law firm Harneys looks set to become the third firm to open up in Bermuda this year. | 11yrs

Proposals from the Intellectual Property Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have called for commercial infringement of copyright to be punishable by a ten year prision sentence, instead of the current two year maximum. | 11yrs

The first law firm to float in the UK has reported strong trading conditions. | 11yrs

Reed Smith star Yvan-Claude Pierre, head of its global corporate and securities group and chair of its US capital markets team, is working out his notice period, alongside three other partners, before departing for Cooley. | 11yrs

A New York real estate lawyer has railed against lawyers from elite universities, but admits they would not apply for his firm anyway. | 11yrs

The abrupt resignation of UK regulator Martin Wheatley - seen as the head of the 'bankers are bad' regime - is being greeted with sober welcome in public but rejoicing in the back rooms of the City of London institutions. | 11yrs