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Japan and the US are the new luxury destinations, says Will Hutchings of Goldman Sachs. | 11yrs

Quindell, the UK-listed company with a troubled history, says it has received the regulatory clearance which will let it sell its law firm subsidiaries to the Australian personal injury specialist. | 11yrs

Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie are installing software which will help them spot recruitment candidates which lack sparking CVs because of their underprivileged backgrounds but who have the potential to rise high. | 11yrs

Reed Smith opens its second office in Germany on 1 June - with seven partners who come from Mayer Brown, Orrick, Wilkie Farr and Jones Day. | 11yrs

The Magic Circle law firms are trailing the majority of UK law firms - getting a brand rating equal to just 74 per cent of that of the average firm, according to a survey of 360 general counsel. | 11yrs

The Australian financial services regulator ASIC is becoming so short of resources that lawyers are starting to fill the breach by taking on official roles as compliance consultants to banks and other institutions. | 11yrs

Stephen Poor may not think his nine tweets are particularly extraordinary but the fact that he tweets at all sets him at odds with his counterparts in the most profitable 15 US law firms. | 11yrs

New brand research makes disturbing reading for many leading UK firms - showing that Linklaters, for instance, is building up its London brand but declining abroad and that the Magic Circle have lost 15 per cent of awareness in the broader UK market. | 11yrs

Axel Reidlinger is leaving to set up his own boutique practice, meaning that there will be five associates in the Freshfields office in the Austrian capital who practice antitrust but no partners. | 11yrs

The firm will set up its 28th office when it is granted permission by the Luxembourg Bar to open up shop in the city, the site of the new Unified Patents Court. | 11yrs

Profits per equity partner rose in the world's largest firm to £502,000 per head in UKMEA - driven by double-digit growth in the Middle East and UK strengths in banking, media, IT and real estate in 2014/15. | 11yrs

An auction service - in which lawyers can bid for work offered by potential clients - has been set up in Australia, following the example of four similar schemes in the US. | 11yrs

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

Intel, Marriott, the Wikimedia Foundation and Office Depot are the four winners of the 2015 'Best Legal Departments' awards, from ALM, the publishers of Corporate Counsel. | 11yrs

Florida-based Butler & Hosch has just closed down - following the sending of an email by the CEO to the 700 staff telling them that there were insufficient funds to pay them at the end of the week. | 11yrs

General counsel and other buyers of legal services are increasingly putting pressure on law firms to outsource, according to the 2014/15 survey on outsourcing from Williams Lea and Sandpiper Partners. | 11yrs

Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania is behind an initiative which saw one of the state's biggest employers take on three firms of lawyers, rather than one, to advise on finance. | 11yrs

Some 57% of senior lawyers and executives are taking a new approach to handling divestments - as these deals move to the centre of the current M&A agenda - but over 70% of sell-offs create friction between lawyers and business colleagues. | 11yrs

NextLaw Labs, the new Silicon Valley subsidiary of Dentons, is soon to announce an app built with a client which aims to manage risk by using field data collected by staff on their mobiles. | 11yrs