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DLA Piper has now got a team of 20 lawyers based in Saudi Arabia and has just revealed plans to expand from its Riyadh HQ to a second office in Jeddah immediately, followed by a third in Eastern Province. | 11yrs

The partner, now at Bancroft, had sought to persuade the court that the Hogan Lovell partnership insurance should cover an accident he had on the drive home as he also worked at home and so was commuting between two work locations. | 11yrs

The accountancy giant agreed to settle the case after 'many years of costly litigation.' | 11yrs

The law firm has appointed a leading Western Australian disputes specialist to head up its Perth disputes group. | 11yrs

The founder of an Italian-Chinese law firm has spoken of the way her Chinese parentage but Italian upbringing has helped her found and grow a Rome-based practice which has been able to focus on European-Asian trade. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy has made its largest promotion round in years, by creating 22 new partners and emphasising its practices in continental Europe. | 11yrs

Early IT adopters in the US have spoken about the way smartwatches can be used in court to keep up with email in an unintrusive way and the potential for the Samsung virtual reality handset for witness interviews, depositions and hearings. | 11yrs

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

Professional services is one of four sectors identified by the Financial Times whose low productivity increases are dragging down the UK economy, explaining why employment is strong but economic growth has been weak. | 11yrs

So many law firms are setting up teams to help drone operators that Akin Gump has said that 'almost every firm has a drone practice'. | 11yrs

Average salaries for associates in smaller firms are rising faster - 8% - than those in practices which have more than 700 lawyers, who saw their median salary go up 7.4% in the year to April. | 11yrs

A group of 20 law firm leaders has unanimously agreed that the ability to provide mobile working and to reduce dependence on office space could drive revenue growth - and that firms who neglect this area could struggle to recruit new talent. | 11yrs

The average law firm waits nearly three months - 83 days - before it gets paid on its invoice, according to LexisNexis - and exists in a sector 'known for long invoice net terms' in the words of Fundbox. | 11yrs

The 600-lawyer Philadelphia-based Fox Rothschild is predicting rapid growth in Chicago - talking of having 10 lawyers in place within six months, growing to as many as 30 by 2018. | 11yrs

Research from Legal Week shows that 82% of lawyers say their health is harmed by demanding work schedules - while 22% of senior lawyers and partners work each weekend and 10% of all lawyers put in over 70 hours a week. | 11yrs

Warnings that robots will make many lawyers redundant should not be taken too seriously, according to Keith Grady - the Lean Law Evangelist at Seyfarth Shaw, one of the firms at the forefront of legal technology. | 11yrs

Fieldfisher faces an employment tribunal hearing in September from a secretary claming €120,000 for unfair dismissal, unpaid overtime and the 'humiliating conditions' of her dismissal and departure. | 11yrs

The global network of 115 independent law firms will discuss trade issues including the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership between Japan and the US at its Tokyo meeting later this month. | 11yrs

Growth of revenue in the London office of Latham & Watkins is outstripping its global growth rate by 50 per cent - as fees rose to £163m in the UK capital on the back of a doubling in the headcount there since 2009. | 11yrs