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The number of leading law firms will shrink over the next decade but those that remain will be 'highly competitive and better organized', according to Eduardo C. Leite, global chair of Baker & McKenzie. | 11yrs

Global Justice Now is planning a demonstration at the office at 4.30pm today - to protest against the firm's work promoting the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US - through which employee rights could suffer. | 11yrs

Long-running hostility towards foreign lawyers has erupted again through a statement from a senior court official telling state prosecutors to 'eliminate the anarchy' produced by the activity of foreign law firms. | 11yrs

Skadden Arps, Jones Day and Baker & McKenzie take the top three places in the BTI Brand Elite league table for 2015, leading the list of firms which are 'strengthening their brand with clients and winning more work'. | 11yrs

Citing concerns over potential conflicts of interest, a San Francisco property partner and two other lawyers are bailing out of McKenna Long to join the 60-strong real estate team at Arent Fox. | 11yrs

A compliance whistleblower has been awarded over a million dollars, the second time an employee in an internal audit/compliance function has received an award outside the normal whistleblowing rules. | 11yrs

Lawyers for the families of 149 people who died in last month's crash in the French Alps might sue in the US because the US gives greater opportunity for extra damages relating to future earnings and family distress than one started in Germany. | 11yrs

The expected promotion of Bournemouth to the Premier League is the culmination of an 18-year journey from when a junior litigator at Hammonds helped save the club from bankruptcy and being ejected from the Football League. | 11yrs

The consultancy wings of the accountancy firms look likely to be the first groups to abandon hourly billing - as the mainstream law and accountancy firms show reluctance to stop using this approach, according to experts. | 11yrs

With a debate taking place on alternative billing procedures, Indian law firm partners are tending to charge themselves out at between US$48 and $1,500 an hour but are using a range of other measures to keep fees competitive. | 11yrs

British writer Ian McEwan will head for Gray's Inn Hall in London on 30 April to take part in the JUSTICE appeal, following in the footsteps of Hilary Mantel. | 11yrs

The five partners and 13 associates are being offered relocation by the 950-lawyer firm to either of the other two German offices which will remain open, in Dusseldorf and Munich. | 11yrs

The luxury retailer has seen two trademarks cancelled after a challenge by a German retailer ended in defeat for Louis Vuitton with its designs called banal and basic by the court. | 11yrs

A recent ruling by London's Court of Appeal could open the floodgates for compensation over data breaches. | 11yrs

Law firms are falling short when it comes to delivering premium rate services, according to US corporations. | 11yrs

The law firm has changed its secretarial function as well as making six partners redundant. | 11yrs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told the Indian legal profession not to be worried about the arrival of foreign lawyers. | 11yrs

Lawyers are currently going through the jury selection procedure in the trial of the former chair, chief executive and chief financial officer of Dewey LeBoeuf, on grounds that they mislead investors of the US firm which went bankrupt in 2012. | 11yrs

The case has just begun between plaintiff Jeffrey Downs who alleges that two firms, Anapol Schwartz and Raynes McCarty, were guilty of defamation in the way that information was provided about his sexual orientation. | 11yrs