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Labor Law Plus is connected through its parent, Transatlantic Law International, to employment law service providers covering 80 countries - and now expands its US reach through a link-up with Meyner and Landis. | 11yrs

Matthew Norman, head of global corporate at Clifford Chance, has said in an interview with The Lawyer: 'The reality is if we don't become more efficient then we will be in difficulties.' | 11yrs

Lawyers have come fourth in the 'most desired job' stakes in Britain, following on after authors in top place, then librarians and then academics. | 11yrs

New York mayor Bill de Blasio has settled an action that has been running for five years about the rights of police officers to stop and frisk - by awarding US$295,000 to 11 plaintiffs and $2.95m to the lawyers representing them. | 11yrs

The Spanish firm has seen revenues go up by 3.6 per cent as other law firms in the region say the market has improved. | 11yrs

Two former lawyers in the Nyst Legal law firm on Australia's Gold Coast have appeared before the Brisbane Magistrates Court, accused of helping clients hide money away from the state's special financial intelligence unit. | 11yrs

General counsel should have an almost socio-political role - helping shape legislation impacting their business, says Rosemary Martin of Vodafone in the 2015 GC Excellence Report. | 11yrs

A corporate partner and an of counsel are joining Clayton Utz in Sydney - the latest moves in a fast-changing lateral hire recruitment market in Australia. | 11yrs

Eversheds UK has recruited a group of financial services consultants to work side by side with lawyers in a regulatory compliance team - following in the steps of fellow UK-based firm RPC which also went into non-legal consulting this month. | 11yrs

Baker & McKenzie is being sued for £11.7m over an allegedly 'aggressive financial engineering' arrangement which was put in place through a Luxembourg shell company. | 11yrs

Senior judges are behind a proposal from Professor Richard Susskind to set up swifter, relatively inexpensive online courts for civil disputes below the level of £25,000. | 11yrs

Two thousand websites selling fake luxury goods have been removed since the start of the year in the UK. The fight against fakes will be on the agenda at the 2015 Luxury Law Summit on 19 May 2015 in London. | 11yrs

The DLA Piper associate murdered in a Washington DC hotel appears to have sent a text to his wife saying he would be home in an hour just 11 minutes before a person who may be connected to the case was seen walking through the hotel lobby. | 11yrs

Solicitors are now to be exempted from parts of the government's anti-terrorism and money laundering legislation. | 11yrs

Foreign companies in China remain optimistic albeit concerned about being targeted by the government. | 11yrs

Revenues also grew in 2014 as did profits per equity partner, according to the latest Citi Private Bank report. | 11yrs

In a move to reduce property costs, law firms are reviewing the use of space in their firms despite anticipating growth. | 11yrs

Australian law firms have managed to increase their profits by an average of five over the last year - but, in a climate of falling revenues, they have had to cut costs by 36 per cent in order to do so. | 11yrs

A lack of saving for retirement is pushing UK lawyers to consider some dramatic options - with 43 per cent expecting to work part-time after retirement day and one in five even considering starting a new career outside the law. | 11yrs