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Five paralegals have filed a suit, claiming full payment of overtime, against law firm Pasricha & Patel. | 12yrs

Kyleen Cane, founder of Cane Clarke LLP, is one of seven people charged by the US attorney's office in Brooklyn in relation to a scheme to inflate share prices artificially. | 12yrs

Five London associates have started a pre-partnership network for the next generation of female solicitors. | 12yrs

Dentons has ended its 12-year relationship with Benti-Enchill Letsa & Ankomah and signed a new one with JLD & MB Legal Consultancy. | 12yrs

Boston-based, 800-lawyer firm Bingham McCutchen is said to have approached at least four other practices to discuss merger in the last three months. | 12yrs

The 170-partner law firm Charles Russell Speechlys will be created, with a total of 500 lawyers, on 1 November. | 12yrs

Q2 earnings at Bank of America have fallen 43 per cent as the company put through US$4b in litigation costs. | 12yrs

A survey of consumers has found that 38 per cent in the US and 36 per cent in the UK use the internet to find a lawyer if they need one. | 12yrs

A group of Greek investors has filed a notice of dispute against the Republic of Cyprus following the Cyprus financial crisis. | 12yrs

Plans to close at least 230 courts in Portugal from 1 September have led to hundreds of lawyers protesting outside the parliament building in Lisbon. | 12yrs

PLMJ, one of Portugal's leading law firms, has signed its fifth partner agreement with a local firm in Portugal, this time in Madeira. | 12yrs

Three former senior managers at failed practice Dewey & LeBoeuf have cited an alleged 'voracious greed' among some partners as a major factor in the firm's collapse. | 12yrs

Simmons & Simmons managing partner Jeremy Hoyland says that Asia is likely to be the top business challenge for leading law practices for the next couple of years. | 12yrs

Warsaw-based Wardynski & Partners is urging the government to introduce new regulations to give some protection to users of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. | 12yrs

The general counsel of GM has made a statement to a Senate subcommittee on the mistakes made by his legal department over the ignition-switch recall. | 12yrs

Corporate lawyers work in a 'faced-paced' environment, often with as many hours as their BigLaw peers and with a relentlessly demanding client. | 12yrs

Banks which have sent out letters to customers pretending that they were from made-up law firms have been asked to provide more data on the practice to a parliamentary committee. | 12yrs

Big Five South African legal practice Bowman Gilfillan is boosting its transport practice by merging in the three-partner shipping firm Velden Pike Nichols. | 12yrs

A weekly round-up on moves across the globe. | 12yrs