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Farney Daniels has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that it will stop threatening law suits to small businesses when it has no intention of initiating them. | 11yrs

London-based personal injury specialist Hodge Jones & Allen has developed a bespoke outcome predictor for its litigation cases with an academic at University College London. | 11yrs

Even if technology is pushing down legal fees in some areas, lawyers in general are in the safest part of the jobs market, according to an analysis of the UK. | 11yrs

Paul Napoli, the convalescing co-founder of Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, is fighting two battles from his sick bed - a defamation case from a former employee and lover and a case over the running of the firm with a fellow partner. | 11yrs

Quindell, the self-styled world's largest publicly listed law firm, saw its shares fall 20% yesterday after the market became concerned about share purchase deals by three directors. | 11yrs

US District Judge Carl Barbier has accused three lawyers of lying - one, Lionel Sutton III who worked inside a claim-handling centre and two from outside. | 11yrs

An Italian lawyer has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence for reading out a death threat in court to the author Roberto Saviano. | 11yrs

A New York judge has dismissed charges of falsifying business records against former leaders at the bankrupt firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf but the cases against them proceed. | 11yrs

Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's nominee for the role of Attorney General, was a partner for nine years in Hogan & Hartson, a predecessor firm of Hogan Lovells. | 11yrs

Universities have been partly behind 'a huge expansion of LLB graduates' and growth 'at a hideous rate', according to the director of Legal Best Practice at the New Zealand Law Society. | 11yrs

A Philippine patents trade association has made an agreement with a technical institute which they believe will increase the number of professional local patent filings. | 11yrs

At least five US law firms are considering launching class actions against the supermarket chain after accounting irregularities were exposed in September. | 11yrs

Online Legal Marketing is launching a tool that 'gives lawyers, law firms and legal marketers the ability to self-publish settlements, verdicts and judgments'. | 11yrs

The Big Six Australia firm is shutting its office in Hong Kong but will still have access to the area through its joint venture with Linklaters. | 11yrs

The Ivory Coast Bar Association has followed through on its threats against international US law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and begun legal proceedings. | 11yrs

There were 454 reports of bogus law firms made in the eight months to the end of August to the English and Welsh regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). | 11yrs

Top 25 UK law firm Irwin Mitchell is making its sixth purchase since becoming an ABS (Alternative Business Structure) two years ago by acquiring Berkeley Law in London's Mayfair. | 11yrs

NML Capital, the hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, has sought an emergency order to stop Argentine lawyer and former World Bank director Cesar Guido Forcieri from leaving the US. | 11yrs

Linklaters is relocating Hong Kong disputes partner Jelita Pandjaitan to start a litigation and arbitration practice in Singapore. | 11yrs