Texas law firm Mauze & Bagby faces a defamation claim over its search for clients in a proposed action against a national dental practice. | 12yrs
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Recent trends to get better value for money are partly due to the arrival of a generation of more sophisticated in-house counsel, according to lawyers quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. | 12yrs
Two former DLA partners of DLA Piper are to launch a Miami office for 1,000-lawyer practice Bryan Cave. | 12yrs
A new service offering lawyers an upfront credit facility on fees has been launched in London. | 12yrs
The energy practice at a leading chambers was attacked last month as attackers set up links that visitors could have clicked on to link them to malware. | 12yrs
The University of Victoria in Australia is launching a new legal IT course in January, to prepare lawyers for a stream-lined approach to the law. | 12yrs
Philip Hyde joins the firm as a finance partner. | 12yrs
Five lawyers specialising in nuclear energy law have left the defunct Canadian practice of Heenan Blaikie to join Gowling Lafleur Henderson in Toronto and Qatar. | 12yrs
Portuguese practice PLMJ has established an office in Lausanne, reflecting both the interest of Portuguese clients to invest money there and the spread of Swiss-based companies abroad. | 12yrs
Leon Flavell, head of global services legal at accountancy Big Four giant PwC, is aiming to put the practice into the world's top 20 firms within the next five years. | 12yrs
A 30-year old lawyer from East Turkestan has died after being held by the authorities and, when released to her family, being unable to stand and being covered in 'wounds all over her body'. | 12yrs
BigLaw lawyers are less happy than their peers in public-service jobs whilst judges are the happiest of all lawyers. | 12yrs
The Malaysia Bar Association passed a resolution at its AGM, asking for retired judges to be barred from representing clients in court. | 12yrs
Local law firms dominate the Singapore legal marketplace unlike Hong Kong where foreign law firms run the show. | 12yrs
Fried Frank's longtime chair is leaving her post two years early but will remain in the firm in a managerial role. | 12yrs
The company is holding a VIP briefing session tomorrow on Axcelerate 5 and the future of e-discovery. | 12yrs
Outsourcing to China looks set to become slightly less enticing this month as an amendment to the Labour Contract Law reduces room for manoeuvre for employers. | 12yrs
A High Court judge in London has upheld one of four negligence claims made against Withers and ordered the practice to pay £1.6m to its former client, the executive search company Wellesley Partners. | 12yrs
Different kinds of legal claim - relating to bankruptcy and fraud as well as product liability - are being prepared by lawyers in response to the recall of 1.6m vehicles by General Motors. | 12yrs
Freshfields has followed a current trend in appointing a litigator to a senior management role though its naming of Adam Siegel from the New York office as the next US managing partner. | 12yrs