Matthew Dick, trade mark attorney and partner in D Young, has become famous in the UK for persuading the editor of The Times crossword to let him compose clues and answers including the phrase 'Will you marry me' and 'Delyth', his girlfriend's name. | 11yrs
PwC Legal is developing its German legal team with the hire of Mayer Brown banking and finance partner Jorg Wulfken, as the firm attempts to build a financial services offering outside of the US. | 11yrs
Katherine Adams, General Counsel at the New Jersey-based conglomerate, says that law firms were 'kind of shocked by this' when she introduced e-auctions as a way to keep down costs. | 11yrs
Clyde & Co has appointed Sally Sfeir-Tait as a partner in its Regulatory and Compliance team. Ms Sfeir-Tait specialises in the financial services sector and will be based in the firm's Abu Dhabi office, servicing the wider MENA region. | 11yrs
Apple has revoked Monster's authority to make licensed accessories for its devices, which Monster claims is retribution for the lawsuit it has brought against Apple unit Beats Electronics LLC. | 11yrs
A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs
The IT company used Italian employment law specialists LABLAW to assist its employment counsel Alan O'Rourke in sealing the deal with the unions. | 11yrs
A liberalisation of UK pension laws this year is leaving law firms wondering if there is a danger that their older staff 'may not want to or may not be able to afford to retire because they have not saved enough or have spent their pension funds'. | 11yrs
The head of failed Florida-based Butler & Hosch has been added as an individual defendant to a class action complaint brought by some ex-employees - and has been accused of creating $7m of false invoices that were not sent to clients. | 11yrs
The employee says that he agreed to reclassify a $1.4m payment to the then chair Steven Davis because he feared he would lose his job if he did not. | 11yrs
South African judges and a group of litigation lawyers have been praised for trying to get Sudan's President Bashir to appear at the International Criminal Court - even though the state seems to have made it easy for him to get away. | 11yrs
Linda Martin, famed for her role in the Accenture - Andersen separation, joins the 15-partner and 70-associate US Freshfields dispute resolution team in New York in September. | 11yrs
A private prosecution against an ex-Gibson Dunn partner by the former managing director of Leeds United football club and ex-general counsel of GFH Capital has been dismissed. | 11yrs
Singapore-based RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has taken on Anthony Chey and Vernon Voon as partners in the firm's litigation and dispute resolution practice from Tan Kok Quan Partnership. | 11yrs
On the verge of opening its first admin centre in Manchester in the UK, the Magic Circle firm has revealed that it plans to provide 24-hour admin support by opening two other units. | 11yrs
The merger this week of Shakespeares and SGH Martineau to take the combined practice into the UK Top 50 is being seen as a sign of the way the smaller players are taking on the leaders for FTSE 250 and other large businesses. | 11yrs
Baker & Botts has lost its long-running case about claiming costs over disputed fees - after the Supreme Court has held against it over the Asarco bankruptcy. | 11yrs
John McClenahan, former managing partner of Ashurst in the City, will become managing partner of the new King & Spalding office in Tokyo with an initial focus on energy and project finance. | 11yrs
Convergence is set to drive technology, media and entertainment M&A to new heights as companies fight for competitive edge. | 11yrs
Brown Rudnick has substantially increased its potential appeal to the Francophone emerging markets by recruiting Phillip Rogers to join them after 11 years at Clyde - just days after two Paris-based restructuring specialists moved over to the firm. | 11yrs