Patton Boggs and other law firms have been increasing their marketing to UAE-based businesses by highlighting opportunities in Iran now that sanctions have been slightly relaxed. | 12yrs
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Lawyers in a bank and at an Almaty law firm are among the suspects behind rumours alleging that three Kazakhstan banks were in meltdown. | 12yrs
Japan's largest law firm, Nishimura & Asahi, has been given a licence to open in Shanghai by the Chinese Ministry of Justice. | 12yrs
AdventBalance - the Australian practice which seconds lawyers to clients for fixed time periods - has opened a Brisbane office, bringing its total to six. | 12yrs
The international 800-lawyer firm is offering voluntary redundancy packages to all its secretaries in response to technological change. | 12yrs
A case has changed the law concerning the payment of rent in an insolvency situation | 12yrs
The Singapore law firm has tied-up with one of the top firms in Vietnam, | 12yrs
Banking departments in law firms are most receptive to women, according to the research. | 12yrs
Canada's largest law firm closure, Heenan Blaikie, has angered many of its support staff who have been left uncertain about their future. | 12yrs
Recruitment from campuses was mainly flat in the second half of 2013, completing five years of 'limited entry-level hiring' among law firms, according to the Association for Legal Career Professionals. | 12yrs
Bird & Bird has become the first international firm to sign a co-operation agreement with a firm in the Korean top ten. | 12yrs
A former Legal Services Commissioner in Australia has underlined the duties of law firms to protect client documents and communications from eaves-dropping. | 12yrs
Efforts to regulate telecoms in the Turks and Cacios has met with parliamentary opposition. | 12yrs
The Bar Council of India has responded to widespread demands by announcing it is to lift restrictions on law firm websites. | 12yrs
Fixed fees are posing a major threat to law firm profitability whilst client demand for discounted fees is viewed as the most significant risk law firms faced last year. | 12yrs
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is developing a more aggressive strategy to find assets hidden in foreign countries by tax evaders and drug dealers. | 12yrs
BP is asking a federal court to disallow a payment of US$7.9m to be made to a Louisiana law firm involved in making compensation claims in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill. | 12yrs
Marios Shiaeles, the alleged perpetrator of numerous property frauds on international clients, is said to have been sentenced to 15 months by the Limassol District Court. | 12yrs
The US legal sector is preparing for technological shake-ups as experts predict the arrival of apps which can 'substitute for the labor of lawyers'. | 12yrs
Arseniy Yatseniuk, a 39-year old lawyer-turned-banker, has emerged as one of the main five leadership contenders in Ukraine and has backing from the US and EU. | 12yrs