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The role of two general counsel - who are accused of advising homeowner associations to take over properties and then bring lucrative construction litigation actions through co-conspirators - will be examined in the trial starting this week. | 11yrs

Revenue grew five times as fast in 2014/15 at Latham & Watkins - going up by 14.3 per cent and pushing profits per partner up from $2.5m to $2.9m per head. | 11yrs

The Irish Cancer Society has said it will stop accepting money from a law firm because it is acting for the cigarette company Japan Tobacco. | 11yrs

Nearly four out of five of legal professionals are missing productivity goals set by their firms or departments - with a large part of the problem being attributed to holes in document management systems. | 11yrs

At least a dozen of Wall St's largest banks - including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs - are expected to form a data-sharing group with the law firms which advise them by the end of the year. | 11yrs

A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen continues to expand its global litigation offering with the launch of its British Virgin Islands (BVI) litigation and insolvency practice. | 11yrs

The US law firm has hired a 15 strong team from a rival. | 11yrs

Maintenance for life in family law cases is under the spotlight after a ruling in London's Court of Appeal. | 11yrs

Global law firms are seen as 'fee hoggers' by their African colleagues as the disconnect between BigLaw and local firms is revealed. | 11yrs

Deirdre Clark - the former Allen & Overy lawyer suing the firm for $15m - is to be examined by a psychiatrist under the order of the US court handling the claims she has brought of wrongful dismissal after an alleged drunken sexual encounter. | 11yrs

Research into the controls in place at 60 of the leading law firms in the UK county of Yorkshire has found that nine out of ten of them failed to take adequate steps to protect client data from hackers. | 11yrs

After 20 years of opposing the opening up of India to foreign practitioners, the Society of Indian Law Firms is saying - through its president - that their permission should be given 'in a phased, sequential manner, starting 2015'. | 11yrs

Lawyers, even at the highest level, are vulnerable to the advances of artificial intelligence as Amazon, Google and Facebook focus on ways of replacing humans with robots in all parts of the workplace. | 11yrs

Top global 15 firm Herbert Smith Freehills has signed a best friend relationship with Prolegis, a one-partner practice in Singapore. | 11yrs

The insurance outsourcing company has confirmed that talks are still ongoing after reports at the weekend claimed Slater & Gordon had reduced the price by a third. | 11yrs

UK businesses are calling for a reform of strike law and a review of the processes in the lead-up to action. | 11yrs

Lawyer and former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has been indicted on fraud and extortion charges relating to payments he received from Weitz & Luxenberg and Goldberg & Iryami - although there is no suggestion of wrongdoing by either firm. | 11yrs

The coalition partner wants to make those advising on tax matters which lead to evasion punishable for an 'economic crime.' | 11yrs