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White & Case, Latham & Watkins, Allen & Overy and Linklaters are among the firms hoping to be on the new legal panel for Deutsche Bank when it decides on its new list of advisers during January. | 11yrs

Australian independent law firm HWL Ebsworth is to open up in Darwin and Alice Springs in February next year. | 11yrs

Four UK law firms have recently lost £2m between them to scammers who tricked them into disclosing bank security data over the phone. | 11yrs

A surge in M&A deals in 2014 - which has already pushed the total over the US$3 trillion mark - has also created work which is more complicated for legal advisers. | 11yrs

Australian law firms cut their environmental emissions by 10% in 2013/14 - partly due to reductions in headcount and in business travel. | 11yrs

The kind of complicated work that lawyers do may help protect their brains against cognitive decline, according to a study by the University of Edinburgh. | 11yrs

Davis Polk & Wardwell has surprised the US legal pay market by adding an extra US$10,000 for associates in the middle levels. | 11yrs

A weekly update of moves around the globe. | 11yrs

The most senior judge in the UK civil courts has warned that miscarriages of justice must be occurring because of cuts in state funding. | 11yrs

Speculation is starting to mount about the auction expected early next year for broadcasting rights to Premier League football - and legal specialists are also making their predictions. | 11yrs

The newly-floated Chinese company Alibaba may grow its legal team by a quarter, according to Legal Week. | 11yrs

GCs could be in 'real trouble' if they leave all the e-discovery expertise to outsiders and do not have some familiarity with the systems themselves. | 11yrs

UK-based Nabarro is understood to be discussing the creation of an exclusive relationship with a Singapore firm. | 11yrs

The former Jones Day partner who is the emergency manager of Detroit has defended the charging practices of his ex-colleagues who are now advising him, saying that he would need 'six to eight additional firms' if he were without Jones Day. | 11yrs

DWF, a national UK law firm which has seen 456% growth in the last nine years, has reappointed its managing partner for a fourth term - which will mean he leads the practice for 12 years. | 11yrs

Legal advisers who work healthy hours appear to be delivering services in a way that is more effective to general counsel, according to a panel discussion organised by the Colorado Bar Association. | 11yrs

Renaud Laplanch, the French former securities lawyer, is the brains behind Lending Club and its much anticipated float on the New York Stock Exchange next week. | 11yrs

A lawyer in the US state of Virginia is being held in custody, accused of abducting the managing partner of the law firm which recently fired her and also of assaulting him and his wife. | 11yrs

Law firms are among the organisations being targeted by hackers trying to gain information which could affect share prices on the pharmaceutical and other sectors. | 11yrs