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The UK in-house legal market is booming and has doubled over the past 13 years. | 12yrs

All DLA Piper's practice groups will become single global teams from early 2015, the same time that a new management team will take the helm. | 12yrs

Up to 700 companies, local authorities and law centres are open to the idea of an ABS, according to new research by the UK legal regulator. | 12yrs

General counsel must get to grips with their business roles and responsiblities in a globalised world. | 12yrs

Not only are Australian lawyers facing bullying allegations but its BigLaw firms are seen as male-dominated. | 12yrs

Sydney-based Spruson & Ferguson believes it has become the first Australian IP firm to open up in China through its late January launch in Shanghai. | 12yrs

A tantalising offer to work for one week from anywhere in the world has been offered to top billers. | 12yrs

Newark-based McCarter & English has recruited 14 lawyers from the energy-specialist practice of Miller Balis & O'Neil in Washington DC. | 12yrs

Hogan Lovells is planning to launch a 20-strong low-cost base in Johannesburg in Q2 2014, with plans to grow the team over time. | 12yrs

Sir Nigel Knowles, joint global chief of DLA Piper, has predicted that only the 'truly global or super niche' will thrive in a future which looks likely to be changed by market consolidation. | 12yrs

The Maitland Group, administrators of £200b of assets, has turned its UK legal arm into an Alternative Business Structure (ABS). | 12yrs

A UK court has ruled that White & Case cannot represent Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk in the next round of litigation with two other millionaires because of a conflict of interest. | 12yrs

The chief justice of Pakistan has said that the current litigation infrastructure is inadequate and that 90 per cent of cases in district courts are pending. | 12yrs

Mexican lawyers Layda Negrete and Roberto Hermandez have made a film to prove how an innocent man was convicted of murder. | 12yrs

The Court of Appeal has found in favour of FAGE in the landmark extended passing off case concerning the use of the term 'Greek Yoghurt', against defendants Chobani. | 12yrs

The Frankfurt office of King & Spalding has recruited the joint head of Bird & Bird's international food and beverage group. | 12yrs

Linklaters has launched a new Operational Intelligence Group to offer advice on global risk and regulatory change. | 12yrs

Accountancy giant PwC will be able to offer legal services under Alternative Business Structure (ABS) licences in the Middle East and the UK from 3 April. | 12yrs

Lloyds has become the latest UK bank to make another substantial provision to cover legal, regulatory and compensation costs. | 12yrs