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Thousands of businesses are trying to meet an 1 April re-registration deadline for which the Russian authorities have allocated just three officials - and which could mean the lapse of business contracts and visas for those who fall behind. | 11yrs

Within two months of opening its London base, California-based Cooley has started to act for the UK's largest shale gas explorer, IGas - on a project which sees the 55-lawyer office working alongside Slaughter and May. | 11yrs

Paul Hastings is to open a new office in Brazil after recruiting banking partner Robert Kartheiser from Allen & Overy, the last A&O partner in that office, as well as two Latin American A&O specialists based in New York. | 11yrs

Large and small law firms in Singapore are to take part in the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme which is to be enhanced later this month by government support which will fund 6,000 cases a year. | 11yrs

The Washington firm has opted for the co-head of its government contracts team. | 11yrs

Montana, Wyoming and Kentucky lawyers fare less well, earning half what their Washington colleagues take home. | 11yrs

The 1,250-person, UK-based law firm Kennedys is strengthening its Singapore office by entering a joint law venture with local practice Legal Solutions. | 11yrs

Embrace the industry as it stands today with all the opportunities on offer, Bob Gogel says. | 11yrs

The 650-lawyer firm Baker Donelson is the top-placed law firm in the Fortune 100, reaching 30th place for its flexible working, paid sabbaticals and for letting staff structure their work to reflect their needs and aims. | 11yrs

Many law firms which have failed have been packed with 'lawyer's lawyers' who had strong CVs and top drawer clients, according to Frank Wu, dean and chancellor at the Hastings College of Law at California University. | 11yrs

The private equity deal saw Vision Capital exit from the Pirtek Group. | 11yrs

Both the new Greek government and the troika would like to see the country's shipping magnates contribute more to the country's financial restructuring but a 1953 clause in the constitution, said to be penned by Shearman & Sterling, is saving them. | 11yrs

The financial backer of Google and Amazon, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is a place of no rules, 'becoming a cult of personalities' and 'an aggressive, tough environment', according to the employment lawyer sent to investigate it. | 11yrs

The latest survey from Deloitte has shown that the UK top 100 firms increased their revenue seven per cent faster in the quarter to 31 January than in the same quarter a year before. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy and Linklaters are said to be planning to join a US group of leading firms which are setting up anonymous information-sharing facilities to fend off cyber attacks in the banking sector. | 11yrs

The world's largest legal practice by headcount, Dentons Dachang, is said - by various sources - to have re-opened talks with McKenna Long & Aldridge in the US, two years after a proposed combination fell apart. | 11yrs

A Russian banker's appeal in London over an asset freezing injunction could have an impact on other freezing injunction cases, says Andrew Pena and Kerem Alev of Cubism Law. | 11yrs

A glimpse into the future and some legal reinvigoration is what is on offer to the reader of 'Tomorrow's Naked Lawyer', says law firm guru George Beaton of Beaton Capital. | 11yrs

A top Saudi artist has sued Swiss watch group Swatch for allegedly plagiarising his work in an advert. | 11yrs