Dick Walker had been the subject of media reports which the bank said were untrue. | 12yrs
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US health insurer Wellpoint has fired general counsel John Cannon “without cause” | 12yrs
Legal departments are facing the biggest GC leadership change in 13 years. | 12yrs
A weekly round-up of moves across the globe. | 12yrs
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
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