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New kinds of work are being commissioned by clients in the oil sector - including contract variations and litigation - as they respond to the halving in the oil price over the last few months. | 11yrs

The Las Vegas-based firm, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, which had over 80 lawyers at its peak and which was famed for its gaming practice, has made the bankruptcy filing after losing 18 of its lawyers in January. | 11yrs

The UK government is being urged to drop accountancy giant PwC from its public procurement work and to sanction firms which break a proposed code of conduct - in a report which accuses PwC of promoting tax avoidance 'on an industrial scale'. | 11yrs

Dentons is on the move again, this time in South Africa where the firm is beefing up its presence. | 11yrs

Three months after the tax affairs of various PwC clients were leaked to the newspapers, Allen & Overy is warning that the same thing could happen again. | 11yrs

Two lawyers have stood down from a community non-profit organisation after they appeared in a rap video that endorsed violence against police officers. | 11yrs

William Fry, one of Ireland's largest legal practices, is participating in a nine-month programme through which 70 of its partners are analysing how they spend time in work and leisure hours and estimating how engaged they are in each activity. | 11yrs

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has just opened a Korean office which will focus on international M&A, private equity, project finance and - reflecting the managing partner's specialisms - aviation. | 11yrs

The 850-lawyer global firm is planning to focus on international arbitration and projects in a Cairo presence through an associated office. | 11yrs

Goldberg Segalla has picked up a local St Louis team to open its 13th office. | 11yrs

Not only are lawyers more liberal, they donate more to political campaigns than other citizens. | 11yrs

McCarthy Tetrault has come top in half of the 12 Legal Post league tables run on advisers to debt and equity issuers - and is followed by Blake, Cassels & Graydon which wins the top spot four times. | 11yrs

Withers has established a formal law alliance - the closest that a foreign law firm can get to a merger - with KhattarWong, the 70-lawyer practice that has been in business for four decades. | 11yrs

The law firm is helping victims of revenge porn defend their privacy. | 11yrs

Texan oil company Moncrief has dropped a US$1.37b claim against Russian rival OAO Gazprom after two Baker Botts defence lawyers spotted an apparent fake document which was central to the Moncrief claim. | 11yrs

Writer Harper Lee has thanked her lawyer Tonja Carter for finding the manuscript of 'Go Set a Watchman', the sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - one of the most popular courtroom and lawyer novels - which is due to be published in July. | 11yrs

A new general counsel at McGraw Hill has overseen negotiations with the Department of Justice in one of the last major Wall Street cases. | 11yrs

The regulators are creating incentives for companies to conduct their own investigations. | 11yrs

Latham & Waktins has recruited the head of Clifford Chance's corporate group in Germany, Oliver Felsenstein, and another corporate and private equity specialist, Burc Hesse, to help it bulk up its well-known private equity practice. | 11yrs