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Despite the world's largest merger on the cards in China, it is a difficult market for law firms to turn a profit in. | 11yrs

The computer science department at the University of Liverpool is looking at the potential for case analysis by artificial intelligence, using 'automated reasoning' to spot the winning arguments in legal cases. | 11yrs

Deutsche Bank has surprised the market by both going into profit in Q4 and by posting legal provisions of €207 - about a quarter of what had been expected. | 11yrs

The Chinese communist party is researching the numbers of its officials who have decided to commit suicide after they were given a warning or subject to disciplinary proceedings. | 11yrs

A quadrilingual, London-based finance partner has been appointed head of the India practice after the founder of the practice, the current incumbent Sandep Katwala, stands down after a decade in post. | 11yrs

Chris Hannay and his son Daniel have been accused of contempt of court by the man they are suing for defamation in a A$1.2m suit - Campbell Newman, the premier of Queensland. | 11yrs

Whilst the Clooney factor is keeping the Inns of Court in Hello mode, news has just emerged of Benedict Cumberbach's near legal conversion. | 11yrs

While over half of British workers feel underpaid and unhappy, that proportion rises to two in three for two categories - shop workers and lawyers. | 11yrs

Freshfields and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson are giving free advice to start-up entrepreneurs taking a 12-week programme with a new pro bono advice organisation called Cyber London. | 11yrs

With a fast-growing population and an expanding court workload in Qatar, the bar association is calling on the courts to modernise. | 11yrs

One in four of the top 200 UK law firms would consider merging despite 43 per cent of lawyers from merged firms not viewing them as effective. | 11yrs

Shelden Silver, the New York Assembly speaker who has been charged in connection with US$3m of referral fees, is taking unpaid leave of absence from one of the firms with whom he had a referral relationship. | 11yrs

An accountancy firm has warned law firms to keep costs down at a cash-critical time of year. | 11yrs

International law firms have been put on notice by the Dentons-Dacheng link-up which marks 'the first phase of a whole reinvention of the legal landscape', according to an Australia-based consultant. | 11yrs

The growth of pricing directors in law firms is to protect profits not to develop relationships, one lawyer opines. | 11yrs

The current way of measuring law firm performance could be to blame for a fundamental disconnect from getting to grips with value from a client point of view, academic research has pointed out. | 11yrs

Lawyers on the east coast have the highest rate rises whilst alternative fees are seen most in IP Trademark work. | 11yrs

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

Al Tamimi, the 15-office firm from the UAE, is sending a partner to Nour & Taha in Cairo and starting an association with the firm. | 11yrs