The 34-year old stroke Caryn Davies - who got a JD from Columbia University - is being given the credit for securing the win against Cambridge, the first time women were allowed to use the same course as men since the boat race started in 1829. | 11yrs
The US firm has boosted its French operations with four lawyers from a law firm in Paris. | 11yrs
Students may need to develop more skills before they are taken on by law firms so that they are not seen as a cost burden by clients, according to managing partners in Australia who appear to be rethinking the law firm model. | 11yrs
The European Commission is to decide 'very soon' as to whether, after a five year history, it will bring anti trust charges against Google in what would be the most significant, highly-charged case against a US business. | 11yrs
Latin America is now a key area for insurers and reinsurers, according to Kennedys. | 11yrs
The firm is planning to continue to grow and will target a broader range of work than the global elite law firms. | 11yrs
The traditional enthusiasm of US law firms for defending those in need has not kicked in for marriage equality, says The New York Times. | 11yrs
The US firm has made its first UK hire and is going down the alternative business structure route. | 11yrs
Legal entrepreneurs in Canada have devised an app to help criminal lawyers who urgently need another lawyer to stand in for them. | 11yrs
Dentons Dachung and McKenna Long are expecting their joint numbers to increase later this year after 'several hundred attorneys in China' receive 'final certification' - but the firm now says it has just 100 more than it declared in January. | 11yrs
Some of the most influential people in the cyber security sector, including the head of an arm of the CIA, are calling for liability for cyber weaknesses to be passed on to software designers in the numerous cases where their designs are faulty. | 11yrs
A group of 26 former partners in failed UK firm Halliwells, being pursued for millions by the liquidator, has switched legal teams - leaving Irwin Mitchell for TLT, the high-tech, high volume firm that acts as an outsourcer for Freshfields. | 11yrs
Judge Flávio Roberto de Souza has been charged with embezzlement and accused of illicitly taking US$360,000 last year which was used to buy a bullet proof Land Rover and a flat in Rio de Janeiro - throwing the trial into chaos. | 11yrs
Over 100 criminal lawyers at different Scottish practices are using an app developed by colleague Avtar Bhatoa, senior partner of Bullivant Law, in conjunction with Bullseye Solutions. | 11yrs
Already under pressure in the UK and EU over the lawfulness of their tax advice, the top accountants are being questioned by an Australian Senate inquiry on tax avoidance - as part of government moves to close off loopholes for tax evasion. | 11yrs
E-commerce sales in China have outpaced the US, making it one of the most lucrative markets in the world. Brand protection group Mark Monitor has produced a white paper: Best Practices for Brand Protection and Effective Enforcement in China. | 11yrs
Legal services outsourcer Elevate has recruited an expert from a leading US law firm. | 11yrs
Professional indemnity insurance for lawyers across Europe is expected to go up by seven per cent between 2013 and 2017, according to Partner Re - pushed up by a growing tendency among Spanish clients to sue their advisers. | 11yrs
RSA - the UK's 11th largest insurer and Europe's 38th biggest - is offering advocacy, litigation, probate and the administration of oaths through a legal services wing this month. | 11yrs
The next financial crisis could be 'more volatile' than the last one because regulators have hamstrung the banks and made it less likely that the strong ones would take over weakened rivals again, JP Morgan's chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has said. | 11yrs