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Inhouse lawyers who are trying to compare the efficiency of legal teams are finding that they are in a 'Wild West' of different kinds of metrical comparison tools. | 11yrs

Legal departments are finally seeing an upturn with more money available but increased demands for better legal spend management. | 11yrs

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

The Supreme Court of Argentina has ruled that online search engines are not generally liable for third party content appearing in online searches. | 11yrs

The former head of Morrison & Foerster in London, Justin Stock, has been appointed head of the new 55-lawyer office opened by California-based Cooley in Old Broad Street in the City of London. | 11yrs

One of the leading pioneers among GCs - Connie Brenton of NetApp - has described how fundamental change is taking place in her department and how she expects much of the rest of the sector to follow. | 11yrs

Average profits per equity partner have gone north of £1m - for the first time since 2008 - according to the 2014 Annual Law Firms' Survey from PwC. | 11yrs

A recent BBC TV programme in the investigative Panorama series should put expert witnesses on warning that they need to make precise predictions about the potential earnings of personal injury victims, according to an executive search firm. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy, authors of a Global M&A trends index, say that 'optimism abounds' for the 2015 market as 2014 turned out to be 'the strongest year for transactions since the financial crisis'. | 11yrs

The high profile law firm has hired prosecutors involved in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme case. | 11yrs

The lawyer who has acted for the Charlie Hebdo magazine for 23 years is continuing to take a prominent role in announcing the plans of the surviving journalists for the satirical weekly. | 11yrs

Matt Gorman joins from Stephenson Harward to head up the corporate team. | 11yrs

The insurance practice now has offices in all parts of the UK. | 11yrs

The woman whose sex abuse claims brought both law professor Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew into the story was represented in the past by Scott W Rothstein, now serving 50 years for racketeering and fraud. | 11yrs

US law firm Cooley has signed up a group of five corporate/technology partners from Morrison & Foerster as well as group from Edwards Wildman in order to open a London office in the near future, according to an exclusive report in The Lawyer. | 11yrs

EU rules which came into place on Saturday, January 10, mean that multinational employers with no EU presence could be subject to EU rules through employees working in the area. | 11yrs

Rockwell Olivier, the network of law firms spreading across five Australian cities and zones, has been losing senior people from its Perth base over the last 18 months - including its chair Charmaine Tsang. | 11yrs

Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman Palmer formally combined forces over the weekend to become a top 50 US practice - and are emphasising their industry expertise in energy, insurance, telecoms, tech, health care, life science and financial services. | 11yrs

A 46-year old media and privacy lawyer, who has been cited as one of the 15 most powerful lawyers in France, is acting for magazine Charlie Hebdo - and has been representing them for the last 23 years. | 11yrs