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Hogan Lovells has recruited a senior associate, Jeff Olson, from Allen & Overy, and is appointing him as its first partner on the ground in Vietnam. | 12yrs

The top five plaintiffs' law firms win by not adopting passive strategies, according to a Vanderbilt law professor. | 12yrs

Some 56 per cent of the websites of the top 200 UK law firms are not responsive to potential consumers who visit them via mobile phones. | 12yrs

Law firms are taking huge risks by not training their lawyers on social media nor ensuring they have training. | 12yrs

The French legal profession appears to have been successful in its recent campaign to avoid losing its monopoly on providing legal services. | 12yrs

Artists can now get low-cost legal counselling and educational workshops in the state which has a thriving art scene. | 12yrs

Eight months after it failed, Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie is facing a raft of claims from former employees for wages outstanding and wrongful dismissal. | 12yrs

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. | 12yrs

Bank of America is the latest bank to suffer dented profits as a result of legal costs following a settlement over mortgages. | 12yrs

Criminal lawyers are being asked to take a four per cent pay cut from their bosses just to keep their jobs. | 12yrs

A weekly round-up of moves around the world. | 12yrs

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. | 12yrs

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. | 12yrs

Top lawyers are getting premium rates but companies are using less of their time. | 12yrs

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. | 12yrs

A group of three partners and about nine other lawyers are leaving Maddocks and joining Minter Ellison in Australia over the next few months. | 12yrs

Barcelona- and Madrid-based Perez-Llorca is to open its first office abroad with a December launch in London. | 12yrs

A report in Spiegel magazine, citing unnamed sources, has claimed that the bank might need to increase its legal provisions by 30 per cent. | 12yrs

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. | 12yrs