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Over 100 corporate lawyers in Texas have switched in 2014 from working for local practices to joining the larger national and multinational law firms - either through individual moves or through mergers. | 11yrs

Golberg & Iryami, based in New York, is said to have been making payments to a politician over the last decade - and that those payments have not been declared. | 11yrs

The 270-lawyer Washington-based practice is acquiring McBee Strategic which will become a subsidiary of the firm. | 11yrs

Police have pointed the finger to clients in a land dispute after a lawyer was shot and killed in Noida, in India. | 11yrs

A group of 66 lawyers are behind 0.5% of petitions filed to the US Supreme Court but a remarkable 43% of cases that the Court decides to hear. | 11yrs

Buzzfeed has named the first woman to open a law firm in Saudi Arabia as the top-placed in its annual list of the 15 most influential women in the world. | 11yrs

Eddie Greenspan, who represented media baron Conrad Black and German financier Karlheinz Schreiber among other well-known clients, has died in his family holiday home in Phoenix at the age of 70. | 11yrs

Leading law firms have continued to make lateral hires as the holiday season approaches - with Morrison & Foerster, Dentons and Norton Rose Fulbright emerging as late players in the top end of the jobs market. | 11yrs

A former competition partner in Wilkie Farr & Gallagher and Hunton & Williams has been charged with submitting false consultancy bills to the two firms in relation to shell litigation support corporations that she had set up. | 11yrs

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

Alstom, the French industrial group, has agreed to pay US$772m as a fine - a sum which will be the largest penalty paid by a business to the department for foreign bribery. | 11yrs

A former US federal cyber crimes prosecutor puts at US$100m the cost to Sony of contractual breaches over restricting the release of 'The Interview' film - as well as another $1m for the advice of lawyers and forensic investigators. | 11yrs

All businesses, not just those in the technology field, need to be supervising cyber security issues at board level, says Fried Frank partner David Hennes. | 11yrs

The Irish government has taken the unusual step of filing a supporting legal brief to the Microsoft case as the giant IT company battles an order to hand over private emails stored on an Irish server. | 11yrs

Luke Grosser, who forged academic achievements, records and employment experience and used them to gain a summer placement at Minter Ellison, has been barred from practising until 2022. | 11yrs

Employees were given just half an hour to clear their desks and leave the office last year when the UK firm was closed down, an employment tribunal in Birmingham has been told. | 11yrs

The law school that has lost the most full-time teachers is Western Michigan University Cooley Law School - which is down by 52 since 2010. | 11yrs

Dentons is making a US$500,000 donation to firefighters in Detroit after earning over $15m from representing retirees in the city's bankruptcy case. | 11yrs

Gareth Evans, 64, was found drowned on a beach, still wearing his office pin stripe suit, shortly after he had confessed to a £2m fraud to police. | 11yrs