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The list of top US brands identified by researcher Acritas includes BakerHostetler, Dentons, Foley Hoag, Clifford Chance and K&L Gates. | 11yrs

Many of the world's top luxury brands are attending this month's Luxury Law Summit in London. | 11yrs

Legal Process Outsourcing is continuing to grow in the legal marketplace with companies in the sector increasingly targeted for acquisition. | 11yrs

The US managing editor of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett, has praised the signs of hope and 'wild renaissance' taking place in Detroit, following the appointment of a Jones Day partner as its emergency manager. | 11yrs

Most Australian law firms are planning to recruit in the next 12 months - but the majority of them will merely replace departing staff and a minority expect to recruit to increase their teams. | 11yrs

Legal and compliance jobs top the list, according to the Robert Walters Asia Job Index. | 11yrs

Peter Gray, the partner who was held to have deliberately misled the High Court in the UK, appears to have left the firm and is considering setting up his own practice, according to The Lawyer. | 11yrs

Law firms attending the International Trademark Association meeting in San Diego are putting on a total of 41 parties - up 64 per cent from the more austere days of 2014 when only 25 were staged in Hong Kong. | 11yrs

Slaughter and May, the first of the Magic Circle to announce newly-qualified pay hikes for London, is to raise salary 8% to a level of £70,000 - still well behind that of the top US firms in the UK. | 11yrs

Lewis Roca Rothgerber, one of the largest firms in the western US, is setting up a 14-person 'Unmanned Aircraft Systems' team, headed by an air pilot, with expectations of advising on IP, patents for new models, regulations and export controls. | 11yrs

Jennifer Rhida, the criminal defence lawyer who acted for Michael Douglas's son Cameron recounts the story of how they met when he was in prison and fell in love - leading to her smuggling drugs to him and then getting fired - in an autobiography. | 11yrs

The head of the British bank told analysts that it is 'anticipating some challenging outcomes' - as it announced £867m of legal provisions in its Q1 results. | 11yrs

Students at the University of Maryland can take exams at home, at any time they want within a 48-hour period this week - because of problems they might experience in going to the exam centre through the riots. | 11yrs

Brunei has joined the small group of countries in the world which have introduced some of the Sharia criminal code. | 11yrs

The co-founder of Shepherd Evans, Steven Shepherd, has been jailed for three years in the UK after pleading guilty on nine charges of theft and false accounting - having stolen money from his probate and personal injury clients. | 11yrs

Fourteen firms including Macfarlanes and Taylor Vinters have signed up to Apperio, a legal fees platform that claims to be cutting fees for clients by 12 per cent. | 11yrs

Lewis Silkin, which houses one of the world's largest employment law teams, is opening its first branch abroad - by sending two lawyers and four other staff to Hong Kong to serve the Asian market. | 11yrs

Mary Jo White, chair of the SEC and formerly adviser to leading banks at Debevoise, may have to recluse herself from decisions regarding the ability of JP Morgan and UBS to raise capital - with the result that they might be denied such powers. | 11yrs

The American Bar Association and many other professional bodies in the US are including a remembrance of the creation of Magna Carta 800 years ago on Law Day activities tomorrow. | 11yrs