Artists can now get low-cost legal counselling and educational workshops in the state which has a thriving art scene. | 11yrs
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Eight months after it failed, Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie is facing a raft of claims from former employees for wages outstanding and wrongful dismissal. | 11yrs
Disability claims relating to ramps and other forms of access rose 55 per cent in the year to June 30, according to an analysis by Washington DC-based Seywarth Shaw. | 11yrs
Bank of America is the latest bank to suffer dented profits as a result of legal costs following a settlement over mortgages. | 11yrs
Criminal lawyers are being asked to take a four per cent pay cut from their bosses just to keep their jobs. | 11yrs
A weekly round-up of moves around the world. | 11yrs
Lawyers with large books of business appear increasingly to be setting up boutique practices and to be turning their backs on the medium-sized firms. | 11yrs
Linklaters has published research on FTSE 100 companies in which it says that the number of revolts on boardroom pay declined in 2014 and looks likely to fall lower next year. | 11yrs
Top lawyers are getting premium rates but companies are using less of their time. | 11yrs
Thomson Reuters is to provide online legal and tax research to the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a deal which could see up to 20,000 officials use the company's services. | 11yrs
A group of three partners and about nine other lawyers are leaving Maddocks and joining Minter Ellison in Australia over the next few months. | 11yrs
Barcelona- and Madrid-based Perez-Llorca is to open its first office abroad with a December launch in London. | 11yrs
A report in Spiegel magazine, citing unnamed sources, has claimed that the bank might need to increase its legal provisions by 30 per cent. | 11yrs
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has recruited a new head for its London office who will also be charged with growing its European private equity practice. | 11yrs
The Italian justice minister is planning a series of justice reforms, including changes which could see the timing for civil trials come down from at least three years to just one. | 11yrs
The firm has appointed Denise Hanna to the post. | 11yrs
Quinn Emanuel has recruited competition litigation partner Boris Bronfentrinker from Hausfield & Co in order to launch a London anti-trust team. | 11yrs
Announcing that it expects to exceed £750m of revenues this year, the alternative business structure (ABS) Quindell has said it expects to hit £1b 'in due course'. | 11yrs
On the first anniversary of its merger on 1 November, King & Wood Mallesons will no longer add 'SJ Berwin' to its name in the EMEA zone. | 11yrs
The firm had been looking for a replacement after former friend August & Debouzy dropped out in March. | 11yrs