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Changing rules on Legal Aid and a decline in motor fraud cases have prompted DWF to cut the posts of 15 secretaries, six lawyers, four paralegals and an analyst in its motor fraud team. | 12yrs

Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland have joined the stream of banks in Europe and the US increasing their legal provisions as a result of negotiatons with regulators. | 12yrs

A senator in the Russian parliament is urging an inquiry into the use of foreign law firms after the country was told to pay US$50b in an arbitration in the Hague. | 12yrs

Between six and ten lawyers in DLA Piper are about to leave to join the Daschle Group, set up by former US senator Tom Daschle. | 12yrs

Just over two-thirds (67%) of in-house tax specialists and lawyers are 'somewhat or very concerned' about tax adjustments which they expect to follow from the implementation of OECD guidance on transfer pricing. | 12yrs

Over half of Indian graduates going from the top nine law schools into law firms are heading for Amarchand Mangaldas and five other leading practices. | 12yrs

Liquidators of the failed UK firm Halliwells will continue to pursue its former partners despite a High Court ruling which gives protection to nine of the 150 people who had been in the partnership. | 12yrs

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law has announced that bond-holders will become the owners of its law school building and that they will let the school use the premises on a lease. | 12yrs

Olga Mischenko, formerly of DLA Piper, is to join the St Petersburg office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners as head of construction and PPP. | 12yrs

Reputation management, the lack of truly global law firms and 'useless, generic memos' are three of the issues which keep GCs awake at night, according to the New York Legal Marketing Association. | 12yrs

India's largest law firm, Amarchand Mangaldas, is starting to plan the location of its ninth office - and has put Hong Kong, London, Dubai, New York and Singapore on the shortlist. | 12yrs

Three lawyers have been sentenced to between five and eight years in jail after criticising the Saudi justice system on Twitter. | 12yrs

Israel's second largest lender, Bank Leumi, has become the latest bank to give notice of a settlement with regulators that looks likely to be much higher than previously expected. | 12yrs

Ashley Winton, formerly head of IP and IT at White & Case's London office, is joining Paul Hastings on 3 November. | 12yrs

The legal specialists most in demand in the Texan city of Houston are not lawyers but corporate paralegals, according to Robert Half Legal. | 12yrs

The General Counsel for Singapore Press Holdings says that legal chiefs need to have more influence on top level decision-making. | 12yrs

Edwards Wildman Palmer has reshuffled its management team in London as speculation mounts that former office head Nick Bolter could be on his way to Cooley. | 12yrs

Specialist employment lawyers in the US say they are starting to be asked for advice on ebola from employers. | 12yrs

Banks have stepped up the security checks they carry out on legal advisers, with on-site IT audits happening more frequently. | 12yrs