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The cost of losing an experienced lawyer has been estimated at between US$400,000 and $800,000 in a new report, 'Assessing Lawyer Traits & Finding a Fit for Success'. | 11yrs

John Doar, head of the US Justice Department's civil rights division in the 1960s, and well-known for a case against a Ku Klux Klan leader, has died at age 92. | 11yrs

Canadian corporate lawyers worked on 124 debt and equity financings in Q3, a 'surprisingly robust third quarter' according to The Financial Post which put together the listings. | 11yrs

Hunton & Williams LLP has become the latest law firm to open a specialist team to advise on unmanned aircrafts to the private and public sector. | 11yrs

Even though SME law firms in the UK are recording growth for the third year running, 'increasing levels of debt are a worry', according to result from accountants HW Fisher & Company. | 11yrs

A day after it was revealed that Paul Bugingo is leaving Dentons to pursue other interests, it emerges that he is joining the Africa team of Simmons & Simmons. | 11yrs

For many in-house lawyers, government officials and company managers, international arbitration can be mystifying, says Joe Tirado and Alejandro I Garcia of Winston & Strawn. | 11yrs

With Japanese business inquiries into India nearly at double their 2013 level, lawyers in the two countries are collaborating in the expectation of working on future deals. | 11yrs

Law firms in the City of London have undergone a quiet revolution in the last few years - with appropriate resourcing at the right level of lawyer a common theme. | 11yrs

The annual Corporate Counsel survey of patent litigators has put Fish & Richardson at the top again - handling nearly twice as many patent cases as any other firm. | 11yrs

Smaller firms are increasingly the instigators of mergers rather than simply being swallowed up in a desire for growth by larger players, according to a New Jersey search specialist. | 11yrs

A US$7.3m legal settlement in favour of a company sued over asbestos has demonstrated how the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act can be used on lawyers. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy has commissioned research which supports the conclusion that Europe is poised to develop a private sector lending market as an alternative to bank finance. | 11yrs

The president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners has described the students who sat the July Multistate Bar Exam as being 'less able' than those who sat it in 2013. | 11yrs

London fee-earners in CMS Cameron McKenna are to be equipped with Microsoft tablets after the practice bought a batch lot of 1,000 devices. | 11yrs

Paul Bugingo, the Uganda-born infrastructure specialist who was the relationship chair of the firm's Africa Steering Committee, is leaving the firm. | 11yrs

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

The Big Four accountancy firms are 'eating the law firms' lunch' in terms of their relationships with in-house lawyers, according to the former head of Reed Smith, now GC and PNC. | 11yrs

Ginger Rechel, GC at Tampa International Airport, has stood down amid reports that she is under investigation for breach of the state's open government laws. | 11yrs