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Despite most lawyers feeling legal services must re-engineer, a growing number see opportunities. | 12yrs

A Kirkland & Ellis partner has found himself in the midst of a global storm after lashing out on the subject of unnecessary emails from his colleagues. However, the market backs him, a poll has found. | 12yrs

Patton Boggs and Squire Sanders could find themselves ready to merge within a matter of days, according to sources familiar with the proceedings. | 12yrs

Taylor Wessing will have access to 120 lawyers across South Korea through an association with local practice DR & AJU. | 12yrs

Baker Botts has had a close call after a Texan jury ruled in favour of a former client over a conflict of interest. | 12yrs

Tax, corporate and property work has all been on the increase in the top 150 US law firms in 2014 Q1, according to the Thomson Reuter Peer Monitor. | 12yrs

Boston-based Fish & Richardson leads the activity rankings on patent litigation in the US, followed by Farney Daniels and DLA Piper. | 12yrs

Anthropologist David Graeber is dividing jobs between those involving making things and a second group of 'bullshit jobs', and has classified corporate legal roles firmly in the latter sector. | 12yrs

The legal departments in corporates will be the biggest drivers for change in the legal market over the next ten years, according to managing partners in 304 US law firms. | 12yrs

Marc Harvey, managing partner of Linklaters in Asia, has said that a financial tie-up with alliance partner Allens Arthur Robinson is 'an option in the future'. | 12yrs

The latest Law Firm Watch survey from Citi Private Bank shows productivity rising at 1.1 per cent and demand rising at one per cent in the 177 legal practices included in the research. | 12yrs

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association has called for improvement across the board. | 12yrs

Lawyers in England and Wales have been warned against a potential scam email which purports to come from SolicitorsFromHell.net. | 12yrs

Clifford Chance managing partner Matthew Layton has looked at a variety of partnership structures for the firm. | 12yrs

Dutch lawyers are firmly against the government's attack on the legal aid system. | 12yrs

US general counsel have put Wachtel Lipton top of their law firm rankings while their corporate director colleagues have chosen Skadden Arps. | 12yrs

Jones Day, the firm advising the city of Detroit on its bankruptcy, has also been called in to help in a similar bankruptcy case in California. | 12yrs

John Poulson, managing partner of Squire Sanders in Australian, wants partner pay to be linked to how they fulfil organisational values including the wellbeing of staff. | 12yrs

Spanish lawyer Mario Costeja Gonzalez has shaken up the law for internet publishers after the European Court of Justice backed his request for a right to be forgotten. | 12yrs