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Nearly nine out of ten (89 per cent ) law firms are using unencrypted emails as 'the dominant means for sharing privileged communications', according to research in the US by LexisNexis. | 12yrs

The number of black lawyers in the 250 US law firms has fallen for five years in a row, now reaching 3 per cent. | 12yrs

Three top Republican lawyers are leaving Patton Boggs to join the government regulation practice at Jones Day on Monday, a day after the Squire Patton Boggs merger takes place. | 12yrs

Some three-quarters of litigants at the Commercial Court come from outside the UK, with 24 per cent come from other European countries and 11 per cent from the Middle East and Africa. | 12yrs

Over 100 Vancouver lawyers are planning to strike in July and August in protest at Legal Aid funding. | 12yrs

A total of 23 law firms are being investigated by the UK regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), for alleged nondisclosure of information to insurers. | 12yrs

Oil giant BP has been rebuffed in its attempt to extend a hold on payments being made to claimants over the 2010 Deepwater Blue oil leak while it makes an appeal to the Supreme Court on the awards procedure. | 12yrs

New York-based McLaughlin & Stern, one of the oldest US law firms, founded in 1898, believes it has become the first major US legal practice to accept the virtual currency. | 12yrs

An Australian who bailed out of the partnership in a large firm is saying that many partners feel marginalised and dissatisfied when their original firms go into merger. | 12yrs

The number of firms planning to give salary increases above the rate of inflation is taking a substantial dip in 2014, according to the ALPMA Australasian Legal Industry Salary and HR Issues Survey Report. | 12yrs

Mexico has seen some activities in its telecom market as the new law awaits approval by the Mexican Congress. Federico Hernandez Arroyo details the changes. | 12yrs

Most financial companies use competitive tenders when allocating legal work to external law firms. | 12yrs

Regulatory issues was on the agenda at the second Luxury Law Summit in London last week. | 12yrs

The Attorney General of Ohio, Mike DeWine, has been attacked for seeking to bypass competition rules in the appointment of 63 law firms to state agencies and boards during 2014/15. | 12yrs

An annual study of directors and general counsel reveals gaps in boardroom thinking on social media. | 12yrs

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

Over two-thirds of company executives responding to an Economist Intelligence Unit study for Clifford Chance expect that risk management will grow in importance by 2016. | 12yrs

Two senior Patton Boggs partners, the chair and managing partner, contributed US$3.5m to keep the practice going after lenders refused to renew revolving credit to the firm for this year. | 12yrs

Courts in Austria have been unable to deal with a flow of cases that sprang out of the 2008 downturn, leaving thousands of civil cases and even some criminal cases unresolved. | 12yrs