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The two are working together to develop lawyers with corporate experience. | 11yrs

One of four predictions for the legal profession in a survey is the changing role of the general counsel. | 11yrs

Lawyers are 'becoming the next design stars', according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter & Billboard. | 11yrs

Australian lawyers see themselves as the second most competitive in the world, behind Europe, but highlight failure to attract and keep the best staff as their main fragility. | 11yrs

The London-based 420-lawyer practice Stephenson Harwood is closing its Guangzhou office and may be looking for a local tie-up instead. | 11yrs

The incident which a judges association has been warning about - the use of a firearm in a courthouse - has now happened, leaving a client wounded and the lawyer dead. | 11yrs

The merry-go-round of non-lawyer managers continues apace as James Leary, formerly executive director at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, moves on to Dechert. | 11yrs

Mobile devices throw up a range of issues for lawyers with few aware of device management policies in their organisations. | 11yrs

Litigators are increasingly using in-vehicle data - from General Motors, Ford, BMW and others - to help them build information in court cases. | 11yrs

Patton Boggs senior partner Thomas Boggs has died at his home in Washington. | 11yrs

Sidley Austin has recruited a former top government lawyer to join its privacy and data practice. | 11yrs

Eight years after he opened the Paris office of Berwin Leighton Paisner, Antoine-Audoin Maggiar is leaving and the base is being downgraded. | 11yrs

Ropes & Gray, advisers to GlaxoSmithKline in its China corruption investigations, is strengthening its specialist team in order to meet continued demand. | 11yrs

Banks in the British Virgin Islands are making it more difficulty for new accounts to be opened after a rise in reports of suspicious transactions relating to the Caribbean tax haven. | 11yrs

Law firms do not have 'the capabilities and the resources to protect themselves' against cyber criminals, according to the FBI in Pittsburgh. | 12yrs

Andrew Fitch-Holland, of Argent Chambers in London, acted for Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand cricketer, when he won libel damages of £90,000 in 2012. | 12yrs

Canadian organisations are registering the intellectual property and signing non-disclosure agreements as the main ways of protecting themselves over IP in China. | 12yrs

An increased emphasis on a more virtual legal profession is one of the predictions made by the Future Law Office research. | 12yrs

Baker & McKenzie, alongside its client Yahoo, has been accused of perverting the course of justice in Mexico and arranging for a secret meeting between two judges. | 12yrs