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Companies are increasingly aware of the importance of human rights to businesses but only a minority have actually taken steps to implement a policy. | 11yrs

The 17-office, international firm King & Spalding practice has recruited the two Washington DC-based partners from its rival in order to strengthen their civil litigation group. | 11yrs

A lawyer who is defending the gang accused of raping a student on a bus who later died, has been called to the Supreme Court after saying 'there is no place for women in Indian culture' - and a colleague has also been summoned for similar statement. | 11yrs

With 1,000 insurance lawyers around the world, Clyde & Co clearly ranks among the top insurance law firms - but the Dentons Dacheng merger and specialisation by other firms are leading to a tighter race among the top practices. | 11yrs

The litigation funding outfit has launched its latest fund and is targeting the international marketplace. | 11yrs

The Canadian law firm is taking steps to make waves before the island is fully open to US investors. | 11yrs

A leading Chicago firm has arrived in London on the look-out for a big name to head up its practice. | 11yrs

As banks attract the wrath of their regulators, insurance companies are attracting much less publicity? Is this a genuine reflection of the behaviour of the two sectors? Or could the roles changes? | 11yrs

Contradicting general assumptions that China is the leading investor across the board in Africa, Linklaters says that Japan is the most active investor from Asia in African project finance schemes. | 11yrs

An African oil company whose share price collapsed by 97pc in the last year has reported itself to the Serious Fraud Office on the basis of a nearly-completed report from Wilkie Farr which raised questions about travel and accommodation expenses. | 11yrs

Morrison & Foerster has the largest number of alumni of US law firm in the Apple legal team in the US - according to an analysis of data from LinkedIn and the California State Bar. | 11yrs

Some Australian law firms are actively discouraging staff to work part-time or flexibly by refusing to let them participate in the most challenging jobs, according to the head of industry body Victorian Women Lawyers. | 11yrs

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, the LA-based firm where partners earns $3m a head, has suspended a partner who has been accused by a judge of engaging 'in a strategy of equivocation and evasion' that no 'reputable and honest solicitor' would adopt. | 11yrs

The UK firm has taken its first steps internationally as it looks to service clients in the Middle East and Africa. | 11yrs

Professionals 'who enable tax evasion' will share the fate of some of their clients under UK proposals - being fined the same sum as their clients, being prosecuted for 'two new criminal offences' and being publicly named and shamed. | 11yrs

The Big Four are shaping up to be the greatest threat to law firms on the horizon and they have not unleased all their fire power yet. | 11yrs

All 'but a few' ex Howrey partners have reached a settlement with the trustee, four years after Howrey's bankruptcy - but the agreed payments by the partners could cause controversy as they average just US$1,595 for each of the 47 people involved. | 11yrs

Former University of Texas law professor and Texas Solicitor General, Ted Cruz, is to seek the Republican presidential nomination and will be able to draw on Washington DC contacts gained from working at leading lobbying firm Cooper & Kirk. | 11yrs

The 1,000-lawyer Morrison & Foerster, whose clients have included Apple and the Beijing Olympics Organising Committee, has seen turnover fall four per cent in 2014 - but it says that profitability has been rising. | 11yrs