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Over a third of the 23 people who become new partners in Linklaters this Friday are from the corporate team - an emphasis on the firm's traditional strength which is in marked contrast to its promotion policy in 2014. | 11yrs

With annual spending on drones expected to double in the US to $11b over the next decade, regulators are still struggling to develop the needed regulation for the sector. | 11yrs

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

Seven in ten Irish farmers support the introduction of pre-nuptial agreements - as the farming community says that the possible splitting up of farming land has caused 'huge tension' in families and has been 'a disaster' in many cases. | 11yrs

Amal Clooney has brought £1m to the £121m fortune that she shares with husband George, a combined total which puts the couple into 790th place in the Sunday Times Rich List that was published yesterday. | 11yrs

The funder is aiming for 150 cases by the end of the year. | 11yrs

A Kentucky juror has found 24-year old Shayna Huber guilty of the murder of Cincinnati lawyer Ryan Poston two years ago as he prepared for a date with a local beauty queen. | 11yrs

Arnold Porter, Orrick and 23 other law firms appear to have worn out their challenges against a partnership tax for which they are now expected to pay a levy of 1.5 per cent of payroll on services carried out within the city. | 11yrs

Jayanthi Sadanandan is now conducting a review of where the Latham & Watkins office - which grew 20 per cent last year - should increase the size of its teams and overall investment. | 11yrs

The Big Four firm is adding to its forensics team with the new recruits joining an e-discovery vertical. | 11yrs

Settling legal and regulatory issues with the regulators will be one of the top priorities of John McFarlane, the 67-year old known as a straight-shooter who became chair of the bank yesterday. | 11yrs

The two property partners, six associates and a technology specialist make the journey in the steps of three former Eversheds partners from the structured real estate group who also made the same transition in January. | 11yrs

The general counsel of multi-national tech company 3M has said that the average hourly cost of using an in-house lawyer is US$211 - below the rate that external lawyers would charge even for the services of a paralegal. | 11yrs

After a 50-year relationship with the international, FTSE 250 food sector conglomerate, Linklaters has been overlooked in favour of Addleshaw Goddard to carry out a group-wide restructuring. | 11yrs

Mark Stewart, chair of the 500-lawyer US firm, has given an interview in which he talks of the way law firms no longer inherit clients but are engaged in a battle, on a daily basis, to retain the ones they have. | 11yrs

The eight lawyers come from the leading boutique practice, Agility IP Law, which was founded by James Otteson, formerly of Wilson Sonsini. | 11yrs

Loretta Lynch will be the first black woman to hold the post of US Attorney General - in which post she has said her priorities will be tackling cybercrime, terrorism and improving minority relations with the police. | 11yrs

Lawyers need to be careful not to lose some of their 'deep human talent' in the coming years as software systems take over many of their traditional tasks - a process which has dulled human expertise in other sectors, according to a leading author. | 11yrs

As the Hong Kong office of Fried Frank goes into the last stages of its closure in June, two partners have signed up to join the 14-partner Paul Hastings team on the island. | 11yrs