Toronto-based Axess Law has begun opening a series of offices in Walmart branches, offering low prices and hours to match shop opening times. | 12yrs
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Campaigners, including colleagues of deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, are pressing for an investigation to be begun in Norway to discover how he came to die in detention in Russia in 2009. | 12yrs
TAGLaw, an international alliance of independent law firms, has announced the addition of Florida-based law firm Delaney Partners, which will form The Bahamas branch. | 12yrs
Norton Rose Fulbright is pulling out of Prague on 1 May after deciding that the Czech market is not strong enough to sustain its presence. | 12yrs
Female lawyers and judges are earning just 82 per cent of what their male counterparts receive, according to research from Harvard University. | 12yrs
Top bankruptcy law firm Stutman Treister & Glatt is closing as of 1 May. | 12yrs
Homestay hotel alternative Airbnb is battling New York's Attorney General, who wants to subpoena Airbnb host information in a case which may set an international legal precedent. | 12yrs
Top US 100 law firm Akerman is launching an R&D Council through which it hopes to spot and develop 'promising ideas' to help it improve service delivery. | 12yrs
The 1,600-lawyer firm is opening its seventh US office by setting up a base in the energy hub of Houston. | 12yrs
Sacha Woodward-Hill, Formula 1's chief legal officer, is expected to act as the right arm of Bernie Ecclestone, the chief executive, when his German corruption trial starts this week. | 12yrs
Corporate counsel are seeing a shift in thinking from law firms on how they charge for litigation as the hourly rate declines in popularity across the board. | 12yrs
Brad Smith, the Microsoft GC and executive VP of legal & corporate affairs, announced that come this Friday, Microsoft will 'welcome the Nokia Devices and Services business as part of the Microsoft family.' | 12yrs
Neil Eggleston, a white collar crime specialist at Kirkland & Ellis, is to become the chief lawyer at the White House. | 12yrs
The numbers of unrepresented parties in cases involving children have risen from 38 per cent to 52 per cent over 2013, largely as a result of Legal Aid cuts. | 12yrs
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China is taking a more active approach to enabling forced labour challenges against Japanese organisations, culminating in the last few days with the seizing of a Japanese cargo vessel. | 12yrs
Senior associates are becoming embittered as they are passed over for promotion in order to leave the way clear for lateral hires, according to an Australian management consultant. | 12yrs
Baker & McKenzie is understood to have recruited a Clayton Utz partner and one from Allens with the aim of opening a Brisbane office in June or July. | 12yrs
Watchell Lipton name partner Leonard M. Rosen died yesterday aged 83. | 12yrs
New York-based media law firm SmithDehn is opening a base in the Northern Irish city of Derry, with the plan to create 75 jobs in the next five years. | 12yrs