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The research was carried out in advance of International Women's Day in a variety of sectors by the social media website. | 11yrs

UK-based law firm Pinsent Masons is to launch in Australia and has recruited a local team to lead the project. | 11yrs

The 600-lawyer firm Troutman Sanders which opened an office in Charlotte last May with four K&L Gates corporate and real estate lawyers is now taking on another four from K&L, this time specialising in M&A. | 11yrs

The firms are blocking free speech by over-reacting to the slightest criticism, according to a UK regulator. | 11yrs

A team of six Freshfields litigators, led by counsel Maxim Kulkov, has quit the practice in order to set up a dispute resolution practice called Kulkov Kolotilov & Partners. | 11yrs

The race to be the world's largest law firm by turnover is over as DLA Piper published flat income for 2014 - on US$2.48b - while Latham & Watkins pushed its earnings up 14 per cent to take it to $2.61b. | 11yrs

The first detailed survey of lateral partner moves in the UK tax and private client area shows a growth of interest in developing private wealth and tax litigation teams - partly reflecting increasing complexity of the law in this sector. | 11yrs

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has set up a new membership category - for legal operations personnel - following widespread growth of this function among US legal departments. | 11yrs

Over ten lawyers in the Tampa office of GrayRobinson have stopped using desks in the traditional way and are using lap desks and standing desks with the old desk - in one case - relegated to the role of storage container. | 11yrs

Law firms which win more complex briefs from their clients get closer to the boardroom and to directors who have larger expenditure budgets. | 11yrs

Reflecting a trend which is developing across the leading firms, Reed Smith has rapidly increased its 'client value' team - the unit which helps price transactions and liaises with clients in order to avoid nasty billing surprises. | 11yrs

The regulatory body for England and Wales has reported an increase in the number of criminals masquerading as lawyers. | 11yrs

Luxury property is top of the spend list for the rich, followed by art, according to a survey for the Luxury Law Summit 2015. | 11yrs

Brian O'Donnell and his wife Mary were once worth €1b and were one of the richest property-speculating couples in Ireland and the UK - but they have been resisting repossession of the family home in Dublin Bay by locking out the receivers. | 11yrs

Lawyers are likely to be paying more attention to tax issues this year - either in advising an estimated 1,200 wealthy Indians with secret HSBC bank accounts in Switzerland or in answering suspicions that they themselves are under-declaring. | 11yrs

Joe Beltrami, who acted in over 350 murder cases, appeared in every court in Scotland from the Duns to Shetland and role model for a generation of lawyers, has died, aged 82. | 11yrs

Arthur Cox, A & L Goodbody and other leading Irish practices which have worked with the tobacco industry are coming under the spotlight after the Children's Minister appeared to urge a government-wide ban on links with advisers to the sector. | 11yrs

General counsel are being urged by Latham & Watkins to build up their in-team technology understanding in order to have the 'comfort and competence in technology issues so that they can advise at the highest level on hard questions' on cyber attacks. | 11yrs

Markus Buchart, 52, is seeking unspecified special, aggravated and punitive damages and costs from the city of Winnipeg after he was sacked from the legal department a few days before Christmas. | 11yrs