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Lawyers who help out on an ad hoc basis are filling a gap in India where company start-up is a complicated procedure and where most small businesses cannot afford to hire a lawyer full-time. | 12yrs

Three US state attorney generals and three GCs have met at a round table discussion and agreed on the extent and importance of the patent troll problem. | 12yrs

Miami-based law firm is opening up in Chicago, bringing its network of offices to 20. | 12yrs

A law firm in North Carolina was locked out of its client files after the Crypto Locker virus was transmitted through an email attachment. | 12yrs

A group of thirty lawyers from the dissolved firm Heenan Blaikie are set to join BCF, the Montreal-based law firm. | 12yrs

US law firms are, in general, 'inconsistent at best' and making 'only a token effort' in their use of Twitter, LinkedIn and other social technologies, according to a new report. | 12yrs

Heenan Blaikie, the law firm that is in the process of being wound down, is one of numerous large law firms who gave collectively or through their partners to political parties. | 12yrs

The ex-head of restructuring and insolvency, Ben Larkin, has left Berwin Leighton Paisner to join two former colleagues at Jones Day in London. | 12yrs

Lawyer Timothy Griffin has been indicted on charges that he took nearly US$2m from the United Hebrew Cemetery on Staten Island between 2012 and last month. | 12yrs

The divorce capital of the world, London is expected to take a big step nearer to recommending the recognition of pre-nuptial agreements this month. | 12yrs

Apple has faced 92 lawsuits in three years brought by patent assertion entities (PAEs), law firms and other entities that buy patents solely in order to earn money from alleged infringers - and is urging reform of the sector. | 12yrs

Bruce Buck will retain his European role and continue fee-earning as the firm appoints a new management team. | 12yrs

Malta is being challenged in its Constitutional Court over the way Legal Aid is allocated, with allegations that the system violates both local and international law. | 12yrs

Companies could be facing fines of several hundred million dollars for corrupt conduct. | 12yrs

The Pittsburgh legal and business processing services of Reed Smith is to be expanded to offer greater support to lawyers in the European bases. | 12yrs

Nearly half of lawyers and executives surveyed in a new poll believe that complicated cross-border disputes have been on the rise over the last two years. | 12yrs

There is a growing reluctance amongst Australian lawyers to recommend pre-nuptial agreements. | 12yrs

A 1941 Nazi law on murder which is still in force today has worked against battered women and spared violent men, according to lawyers who are urging its repeal. | 12yrs

A decision in a Melbourne court has shown how difficult relations can be between Australian mine-owners and Chinese companies exporting from the country. | 12yrs