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The big issue for 2015 is going to be 'all the noise is about alternative business structures' (ABSs), according to Canadian Lawyer magazine. | 11yrs

In an effort to raise money for the human rights charity, the double Booker prize-winning author will discuss her books in the Great Hall of Middle Temple on 11 February 2015. | 11yrs

Equity partners at the Washington-headquartered firm have seen their earnings rise to one million dollars as the firm re-engineers its model. | 11yrs

Oil giant BP has increased its provisions again for the 2010 oil leak as it estimates total costs to date at US$43.5b in its just-issued results for 2014 Q4. | 11yrs

King & Wood Mallesons has just been granted the foreign law practice licence that it needs in order to advise in the country and now plans to work fast to open a base which will initially focus on international funds, energy and Chinese matters. | 11yrs

The minister for the economy has made an official complaint about the incident. | 11yrs

David Hancock, premier for six months last year, has joined the corporate commercial side of the firm's Calgary and Edmonton offices as counsel. | 11yrs

The president of the Court of Appeal is angered by poor presentation in the court. | 11yrs

Skadden Arps has held onto the title for the fourth year in a row but Jones Day, the second-placed practice, has halved the gap between them over the last 12 months. | 11yrs

Net profits at Hogan Lovells have fallen 2.8 per cent to £200m while partners have managed to push up gross income by 3.9 per cent to £604m - as shown in newly-published accounts for the 2013/14 financial year. | 11yrs

Male CLOs are the winners in the salary stakes with a report revealing how much more they earn than their female colleagues. | 11yrs

The founding partner at Al-Jadaan & Partners and former adviser to Clifford Chance has been chosen to head the Capital Market Authority as it prepares to open its $150b stock market to foreign investment in the next few months. | 11yrs

The number of staff employed by DLA Piper worldwide, excluding the US, fell six per cent to 4,911 over the year to 30 April 2014. | 11yrs

On the eve of a three-day conference for its Africa network firms, Linklaters has appointed a separate head of its Africa group - ending its practice of managing the continent through a wider regional group that included the Middle East and India. | 11yrs

An assistant Public Defender found the tables turned on her when she tried to stop a policeman from interviewing her client without her being present. | 11yrs

Law firm Travers Smith got the biggest chunk whilst barrister Lord Grabiner QC was paid £400,000. | 11yrs

Slaughter and May gets 'very few' complaints from clients about its bills, according to senior partner Chris Saul in a BBC radio discussion programme. | 11yrs

Pressure on revenues is forcing Australian firms to look overseas in a bid to increase turnover. | 11yrs

Dallas law firm Cunningham Swaim has emerged in the aftermath of the departures of ten lawyers. | 11yrs