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Rather than recruiting for cultural fit or for people who will work well with clients, lawyers tend to focus on issues 'about interviewers' personal enjoyment and fun', according to a professor of management who has studied the area. | 11yrs

A Dewey & LeBoeuf partner who retired two years before the firm collapsed told a court about how she received lower payments later than she had hoped after she retired in late 2010. | 11yrs

Senior executives in the Midlands law firm Gateley will take a share worth about three per cent each of the total launch market capitalisation of £100m when the practice floats on the junior UK stock exchange, AIM, on 8 June. | 11yrs

Lawyers in Washington State can now partner with legal technicians who attain certain qualifications. | 11yrs

The Big Four accountancy firm is actively working to build up its employment, corporate and real estate legal services teams in Australia - rather than concentrating on tax, according to its head of tax controversy, Jeremy Geale. | 11yrs

Law and other professional firms use location, IT, workplace design and style as important ways of differentiating themselves to potential recruits - but features such as canteens and gyms come near the bottom of the list of attractions. | 11yrs

Having met with strong demand for the service Peerpoint, which it launched in 2013, Allen & Overy is planning deliberate growth and believes that Asia and Europe would prove fertile ground. | 11yrs

Lawyers from across Germany gathered in Berlin to campaign against plans to reintroduce a bill allowing for mass storage of data. | 11yrs

US companies are moving away from beauty parades with panels shrinking and corporate cousel having little time or inclination to watch law firms strut their stuff, says BTI Consulting Group. | 11yrs

Cooley has arrived in London much later than other US firms but with no less ambitions. CEO Joe Conroy talks to Des Cahill about the firm's plans. | 11yrs

A leading Skadden Arps lawyer who advises Apax Partners, Matthias Jaletzke, is joining Hogan Lovells alongside a European counsel and a corporate associate. | 11yrs

Despite last week urging US President Barack Obama not to force IT companies to weaken encryption for national security reasons, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith has suggested that UK proposals along these lines might be accepted by the company. | 11yrs

A 21-year old woman has pleaded guilty in court to second-degree murder of DLA Piper associate David Messerschmitt in a Washington DC hotel in February. | 11yrs

One of the two partners in the team will serve as co-chair of the global Winston project finance team and the other will head a new office in Dubai. | 11yrs

Women lawyers are suffering from double standards which judge them as too feminine or not feminine enough at the same time as the legal profession fails to promote non-white lawyers. | 11yrs

The firm is looking to revamp its client list with clients worth less than $20k under the spotlight. | 11yrs

Prosecutors are alleging that the three hid the truth about the firm's finances from partners and auditors, which they deny. | 11yrs

Three partners and five other lawyers are joining the Washington DC and New York offices of 300-lawyer firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. | 11yrs

Two-thirds of in-house counsel in German companies are using e-discovery in domestic litigation even though there is no legal requirement for discovery. | 11yrs