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
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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
UK law firms are snapping up non-executive directors as they seek to beef up corporate structures. | 12yrs
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