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
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The big trend expected to spread across many law firms in the next five years is a move to the corporate structure used by many of their clients - a shift from the last five years in which the dominant trend was one of developing new risk strategies. | 11yrs
The flow of partners out of Clifford Chance is continuing as a capital markets partner leaves the Frankfurt office - meaning that four partners have left in 13 weeks, half the total of the German practice's strategic review target of nine exits. | 11yrs
Baker & McKenzie's winning of rights to practice local law through a joint venture with a firm in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone is likely to see other firms following in its tracks, according to leading consultant Peter Zeughauser. | 11yrs
Bank of New York Mellon has followed JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley in posting Q1 results with rising net income despite the presence of expensive legal and regulatory bills. | 11yrs
Shepherd + Wedderburn, the four-office UK law firm, is advertising near its three Scottish offices by taking space at the airports of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen - where a third of flyers are business travellers. | 11yrs
The national US, cloud-based practice Culhane Meadows has attracted three female lateral hires from Reed Smith, Skadden Arps and Baker & McKenzie to open up a Chicago presence. | 11yrs
'Trade dress' has usually referred to packaging but a recent court case extended its use to a website. | 11yrs
Lawyers beat health workers, soldiers, the finance sector and teachers to take the number one slot for a slightly dubious honour - spending the most on their funerals, according to UK company Perfect Choice Funerals. | 11yrs
Clients and law firms have very different perceptions of how legal services are perceived, according to a new survey. | 11yrs
Lloyds Bank is looking to outsource a chunk of its work and is consulting with its legal department over possible redundancies. | 11yrs
Moves by law firms to shrink are misguided and signs that the legal industry is in a 'funk', according to the head of Big Six Australian practice Minter Ellison. | 11yrs
The five-lawyer department has bailed out from Fried Frank just ten weeks before the US-based firm is due to close its Hong Kong base. | 11yrs
The 800-lawyer employment law firm is launching a law corporation in Hawaii with two lawyers - and plans to recruit others in order to offer the firm's services to local Honolulu employers and other clients from the rest of its network. | 11yrs
The 117-partner, 13-office international practice Withers has recruited five partners and six other lawyers from Kelley Drye & Warren in fields including corporate, commercial litigation and IP. | 11yrs
Ted Ullyot will help portfolio companies in the face of heavily regulated industries. | 11yrs
A team of lawyers and investigators is working to prevent the equivalent of a 9/11 attack on the internet, according to the top cyber security official at the Department of Justice. | 11yrs
Morgan Stanley saw its share price rise as it announced Q1 profits up 60 per cent - but, like JP Morgan, it is still paying significant amounts in legal and regulatory costs. | 11yrs
Trust levels have barely improved between government, business and the media since the financial crisis, according to research conducted by DLA Piper with Populus. Sir Nigel Knowles will discuss the way forward at the Trust & Reputation event. | 11yrs
The PLMJ International legal network has opened an office in London with an eye on work from Portuguese-speaking countries. | 11yrs