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Chicago-based Kirkland Ellis, famous for its high partner compensation, saw profits per partner rise seven per cent in 2014, taking them up from $3.1m to $3.5m. | 11yrs

The head of the corporate practice and a fellow partner, both based in Baltimore, stood down after a client filed a US$10m malpractice suit, claiming that the two asked her to start paying her monthly retainer into a company owned by them. | 11yrs

CEOs and top luxury business executives are heading to London for the latest Luxury Law Summit, including the man behind the Vivienne Westwood empire, CEO Carlo D'Amario and Karen Walker, founder of the global sunglasses brand. | 11yrs

The Spanish firm has chosen the coordinator of its litigation and arbitration practice to head up the firm. | 11yrs

A decade-long rise in the use of arbitration and arbitration specialists is only going to increase, pushed up by trends in globalisation, according to the head of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Australia. | 11yrs

Lawyers who are receiving endorsements in areas where they have no experience should be monitoring them for accuracy and even culling them, according to an opinion by the New York County Lawyers Association. | 11yrs

Freshfields is understood to have agreed terms on a property in Manchester where it could temporarily house the first few hundred staff in its new processing hub before choosing a larger, long-term location. | 11yrs

Norton Rose Fulbright has taken the top slot, followed by Blake Cassels & Graydon in a survey of 249 Canadian general counsel, carried out by Acritas. | 11yrs

Regulatory fines and costs are one of the excuses that 'universal banks' are giving for continuing poor results - when the truth is that they need to become more efficient and restructure, according to an analysis by the Financial Times. | 11yrs

The big four accountancy giant is in the process of building up its Asian alliance members and has teamed up with a South Korean law firm. | 11yrs

The Professional Services Division of Quindell will be a 'transformational' opportunity for the law firm, it told the Australian Stock Exchange. | 11yrs

The public might have been surprised that Ellen Pao lost her case against her former employer, the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, but employment specialists were not expecting a win for the corporate lawyer. | 11yrs

More law firms are buying cyber insurance and more are buying it to take immediate effect, according to experts in the US market. | 11yrs

Voice recognition will advance to such an extent in the next five years that lawyers will speak to their mobiles rather than typing into them and address questions to intelligent walls in meeting and other rooms, according to Expect Labs. | 11yrs

Citigroup has been apologising to law firms after Fried Frank and Covington & Burling were named as being subject to the attentions of hackers - even though there were no breaches of the firms' networks or client data in the instances cited. | 11yrs

Aviation lawyers and insurance experts predict that Lufthansa is likely to accept claims without much resistance when they are put in by the families who were bereaved in last week's apparent suicide and homicide by the pilot of a passenger plane. | 11yrs

The proportion of class actions which is classified as 'high risk' or 'bet-the-company' has risen from 4.5 to 16.4% in three years but general counsel are rising to the challenge and managing them more efficiently, according to new research. | 11yrs

A 27-year old law and accountancy university student has been cleared of charges that he was plotting an Islamic State-style bomb or gun attack - but now faces sentencing in relation to a previous conviction of possessing a bomb-making manual. | 11yrs

Amazon has begun testing drones outside the US, criticising US regulators for falling behind technological developments - a move which highlights the progress that the EU is making in preparing the legal framework for an expected boom in the sector. | 11yrs