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The former chief privacy officer of the US Department of Homeland Security Mary Ellen Callahan says big data issues cut across all industries. | 11yrs

A growing number of organisations working in the legalised area of marijuana are finding that lawyers, bankers and others are unwilling to do business with them. | 11yrs

In an unusually active period covering the first eight months of this year, when 49 companies joined the main UK stock market, Freshfields acted for more sponsors and Linklaters for more bankers than other firms. | 11yrs

The US firm was appointed by the action group acting for several hundred businesses which claim to have been let down by the bank's global restructuring division. | 11yrs

A law firm based in the Netherlands is soon to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Dutch families who lost relatives when Malaysia Airlines MH17 went down over Ukraine in July. | 11yrs

The Princeton Review has named the toughest law schools to get into with Yale and Stanford leading the pack. | 11yrs

Some 720 of the Korean civil servants who have retired in the last five years have been taken on by law firms, conglomerates and financial companies. | 11yrs

Scotland joins Azerbaijan and Armenia at the bottom of the league for fewest female judges in Europe, according to the Council of Europe. | 11yrs

Leading London firm Leigh Day has been supported by a London court in a dispute with another law firm about the representation of Nigerian clients seeking compensation from oil giant Shell. | 11yrs

Only 27 per cent of starting salaries at the largest firms are pegged at US$160,000 - a significant fall back from 2009 when nearly two-thirds of such salaries were at this level. | 11yrs

Chicago's Northwestern University School of Law has jumped from 9th to 1st place amongst US law schools when ranked for career prospects. | 11yrs

The newly-formed e-discovery practice of KPMG in Canada has acquired Montreal-based Ledjit Consulting. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy is to increase the number of people working in its three-year old Belfast support centre by adding 100 extra staff in the next five years. | 11yrs

Tughans has completed the most deals in NI in the first nine months of 2014. | 11yrs

The majority shareholder in Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB), Tsvetan Vasilev, has alleged that a law firm has been plotting against his bank. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy is to become the first Magic Circle practice to open its own office in sub-Saharan Africa when a six-lawyer team will set up a Johannesburg office for the firm this month. | 11yrs

Compliance with the regulator is the main problem facing UK solicitors, followed by concerns about ABS (Alternative Business Structures) - a growing area of concern. | 11yrs

Godwin Lewis, the Texas law firm acting for Halliburton on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is laying off 17 lawyers and six staff after agreeing a US$1.1b settlement last month. | 11yrs

The US litigation firm has changed direction and is now practising local law. | 11yrs