Lawyers are on a steady decline in terms of their representation in the lower house of the Lok Sabha, falling from taking over a third of seats in 1952 to accounting for just six oer cent of candidates in the current elections. | 12yrs
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Despite a rise in fraud, prosecutions are decreasing whilst cybercrime charges are increasing. | 12yrs
Law firms are facing major turnover costs if they do not change their management style. | 12yrs
A new report finds that lawyers are becoming more entrepreneurial with over half describing themselves in this way. | 12yrs
A practice of nine solicitor partners and four other senior executives, Gilson Gray, has launched in Edinburgh and Glasgow after recruiting from other firms. | 12yrs
The top independent 100 European firms saw turnover grow by an average of 2.4 per cent, headed by the Iberian-based practice Garrigues. | 12yrs
With law firms now required to appoint a compliance officer, research finds that the role is being off-loaded to the managing partner, throwing up potential risks. | 12yrs
The German law firm has replaced its team with two partners from banking and corporate. | 12yrs
All lawyers are under an obligation to safeguard the interests of clients when law firms dissolve, according to a new opinion from the ethics committee of the California Bar. | 12yrs
Over a quarter of lawyers believe they are at their most creative either in the shower or while commuting into work, according to a survey. | 12yrs
The leading 250 US law firms have been reducing their emphasis on associates for 25 years, according to an analysis by Lawyer Metrics. | 12yrs
A study of over 3,000 law firms has shown that women are billed out at lower rates and that firms have created activities which tend to be 'male', with far fewer being 'female'. | 12yrs
Despite hysteria from the British Government, the prospect of Scottish independence is not high on the agenda for global corporates. | 12yrs
The number of practising and non-practising lawyers has dropped in England and Wales, for the first time in over 20 years, according to the Law Society. | 12yrs
The 1,000-lawyer practice has set up a drone practice group which is representing a photographer who took pictures using a drone in its first matter. | 12yrs
A team of three partners is joining Dinsmore & Shohl's new Chicago office, led by corporate specialist Robert Lucas who will take on the running of the base. | 12yrs
Law firms and other professionals submitted bills of US$36m in Q4 of 2013 in the Detroit municipal bankruptcy as courtroom and other battles intensified. | 12yrs
The calculation of revenues and rankings for Norton Rose Fulbright, Dentons and other Swiss-based verein structures has introduced controversy to the latest Am Law top 100 listings. | 12yrs
Patton Boggs has bowed out of trying to enforce a US$9.5b suit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorian villagers and is to pay the oil giant US$15m as a settlement. | 12yrs
Bankruptcy trustees from a number of defunct law firms are arguing over who gets the proceeds of work which has been passed on to other firms. | 12yrs