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Charles Russell, the 300-lawyer London-based practice, is putting into place a formal association with Al-Soaib Law of Saudi Arabia. | 12yrs

Chicago-based, 1,100-lawyer, international practice McDermott Will & Emery is laying off 25 secretaries across its 20 offices 'as a first step' towards creating 'further efficiencies' in the secretarial department. | 12yrs

Research from Allen & Overy suggests that the new European patent-filing and enforcement system could put the continent ahead of the US and Asia in terms of attractiveness. | 12yrs

Litigation funder Burford Capital is in the money after a lucrative innovative financing linked to an arbitration claim. | 12yrs

Eversheds has opened up in the South African city of Durban by joining forces with local firm Knight Turner. | 12yrs

Global accountancy giant EY is upping the ante in building its legal arm. The firm has recruited Freshfields partner Richard Norbruis to join its Global Law Leadership team. | 12yrs

Pillsbury Winthrop, the 15-office international firm, is strengthening its Nashville back office with the addition of six new litigation support lawyers. | 12yrs

Partners are leaving the large law firms because of internal rivalries, particularly over earnings, according to senior support staff in Australia. | 12yrs

New laws are being introduced in the UK through which lawyers, couriers, van hire companies and others who assist organised crime can face up to five years in prison for giving their assistance. | 12yrs

Economists are increasingly at the forefront of merger reviews in Washington. | 12yrs

Lawyers are less protected when information is held digitally than on paper, a new study on European jurisdictions has revealed. | 12yrs

Ugandan lawyer Gerald Abila has set up an organisation called Barefoot Law to inform the majority of the population, some 36m people, who live outside the capital of Kampala, about their rights and obligations. | 12yrs

US-based 1,100-lawyer international firm Bingham McCutchen is losing 15 lawyers to other firms after what the Boston-headquartered practice admitted was a 'challenging 2013'. | 12yrs

The number of 'grey divorces' has increased almost 40 per cent in the last four years, according to family lawyer Jane Miller of Adelaide-based Tindall Gask Bentley. | 12yrs

A survey of lawyers working in the UK has found that US law firms appear to respect the work-life balance of employees significantly less than indigenous practices. | 12yrs

There are 177 former government officials acting as consultants or other advisers to the top ten Korean law firms, according to government agencies. | 12yrs

European law firms are finding the Chinese market difficult to operate in and believe they face discrimination compared with their local competitors. | 12yrs

EY, the accountancy giant which is increasingly spreading into legal services, is planning to unveil its planned Forensic Technology Services practice in Manchester this autumn, and to recruit 50 professionals over the next two years to staff it. | 12yrs

Entrepreneurial law firms in the US are taking a view on start-up companies with a number of them setting up their own venture capital funds and others providing facilities at their offices for new companies. | 12yrs