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US law schools are in crisis with a business model which no longer works, says a former law professor. | 11yrs

A legal ethics professor has asked white male lawyers in Canada to start turning down judicial appointments - on the grounds that only one non-white and ten women have featured in the last 46 appointments. | 11yrs

The 16-office international firm has just the one office in Europe but has revealed that it hopes to double the size of the payroll there, raising it from its present level of 13 partners. | 11yrs

Large US firms with over 350 lawyers are adapting to new IT far more slowly than smaller practices - with poor use of document management systems, only half using document assembly and many still using fax, photocopying and couriers. | 11yrs

A team of academic staff and students at the Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah is working on the design of robes for male and female lawyers, clothes that will reflect the local climate and professional status of the wearer. | 11yrs

Innovation is a driving force in reshaping the legal sector and is not optional, according to management consultant George Bull. | 11yrs

An anonymous lawyer has told ABC 10 News how a hacker transferred US$289,000 from his account to a Chinese bank shortly after clicking on the attachment in an email and then receiving a call that purported to be from his bank. | 11yrs

It's not all about the money, according to the latest GC Excellence Research. Clients value insight and expertise more. | 11yrs

Claimant solicitors will need to review their retainers and advise clients about the implications of the new 'fundamentally dishonest' rule being introduced shortly, a leading London barrister has warned. | 11yrs

Most companies said they had experienced a rise in social media issues followed closely by e-commerce. | 11yrs

The secret recording by the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ of privileged conversations between lawyers and clients is a breach of human rights law, according to an unexpected government admission - and rectification work is urgently taking place as a result. | 11yrs

Some 30 employees and business contacts were taken out for a meal, at an average of US$10,000 a head, after its co-founder won $1m at Las Vegas and just as Paul Weiss M&A and media lawyer James Schwab left the firm to join Vice Media as co-president. | 11yrs

The raid by prosecutors on HSBC in Geneva may have surprised the bank - which quadrupled its compliance staff to 6,000 last year - but PwC sees the move as part of a trend and says there are 'quite a few skeletons around'. | 11yrs

ABMAK Associates, a mining specialist firm which was created out of a merger last year, expects the need for more sophisticated legal advice to increase as the country's oil and gas resources are more thoroughly exploited. | 11yrs

The outgoing US Attorney General, Eric Holder, has given prosecutors 90 days in which to start cases against individuals over the 2007/08 global financial crisis - and has stated publicly that the prosecutors are eager to bring such actions. | 11yrs

Japanese legal departments are facing less pressure to reduce costs than their colleagues in other countries but risk and regulation is still a challenge. | 11yrs

An increasingly crowded marketplace is seeing law firms come under pressure to offer innovative fee structures. | 11yrs

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

The commission is asking the company questions over dealings with Chinese regulators. | 11yrs