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Traffic lawyers in New York - a city which usually hands out US$10m a week in parking fines - have been hit by a sudden halving in the level of activity since the start of January. | 11yrs

Weil Gotshal, Simpson Thacher and Wachtell Lipton take the top three spots in a global M&A ranking in which US firms win nine of the top ten places. | 11yrs

Global restructuring partner Nick Segal has just been appointed a part-time judge in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. | 11yrs

The 500-lawyer international practice Blank Rome has recruited four litigation partners from Duane Morris and a fifth from Reed Smith to form the basis of its new Pittsburgh office which opens today. | 11yrs

Over the last two years the proportion of law graduates unable to find full-time work within four months of graduating has risen sharply from 21.5 to 25%, according to the GradStats report. | 11yrs

Latham & Watkins plans to have 25 staff this time next year at the service office it is opening in Manchester in the UK - to form a back-up centre for its network across Europe. | 11yrs

Professor Alan Dershowitz has declared himself to be thrilled to have a chance to litigate his case after two lawyers sued him for defamation in connection to accusations about the Harvard professor and Prince Andrew. | 11yrs

Lee Buchheit, New York-based partner in Cleary Gottlieb has been described by the FT as 'the lawyer virtually every government turns to for advice on restructuring debt when the money runs out'. | 11yrs

Employment law experts Seyfarth Shaw are predicting an increase in legal action against employers in the US - on a range of issues including equal opportunities, mobile working and pension plans. | 11yrs

A quarter of the Fortune 500 and all of the Am Law 200 are using legal management solutions - such as matter and e-billing management - from the Austin-based company, according to a recent statement from the business. | 11yrs

Bingham McCutchen's last remaining partner in Hong Kong is moving to join the banking and finance group of Mayer Brown. | 11yrs

Last year was the second highest in terms of merger activity - even if 87% of the 82 law firm combinations were small acquisitions. | 11yrs

The Supreme Court will start hearing a crucial case - on the 'fly in fly out' rights of foreign law firms - on February 27. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy brought down its staff costs in 2013/14 - partly because of its creation of a support centre in the lower cost city of Belfast. | 11yrs

Inhouse lawyers are having to think more about approaching outside bodies which might file an amicus curiae brief - as statistics show they are filed in over 90% of cases before the US Supreme Court and that they are common in state supreme courts. | 11yrs

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

One in five people is considering separating from a partner after getting to the end of a Christmas period truce, according to UK law firm Irwin Mitchell. | 11yrs

The recruitment of Eduard Sheremeta, a real estate specialist, as a partner in Hong Kong, has brought to 80 the Ropes & Gray team of lawyers in Asia and to 75 the number of its property lawyers worldwide. | 11yrs

Businesses providing shared billing information to GCs look set to increase their marketing and recruitment activity this year - and, if successful, could help push up performance by law firms. | 11yrs