Suspicious transactions are being reported to the authorities more than ever before, according to new figures. | 12yrs
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Aspirational law firm partners hoping for large luxurious offices when they reach the pinnacle of their careers look set for disappointment if the latest trend is anything to go by. | 12yrs
There is such a shortage of lawyers in Namibia that many criminal defendants stay in police cells for years, waiting for a lawyer to assist them, according to an official. | 12yrs
Delhi and Bangalore-based Singhania & Partners has merged with Mumbai-based Rajani Associates to create the 20-partner national firm of Rajani, Singhania & Partners. | 12yrs
Linklaters, a long-term trend-setter in IT legal services, has adopted a new ITSM (IT service management) platform from the assist platform at Axios Systems. | 12yrs
Comments from a senior Irish politician imply that the country will follow through on planned legal reforms despite exiting from the EU bailout plan next month. | 12yrs
The Russian communication authority has blocked 83,000 websites without proper justification in the last year. | 12yrs
Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira has launched a 50-strong, international start-ups team, 'an initiative of a group of young lawyers'. | 12yrs
Legal services outsourcer Exigent has grown its global team to 400 professionals and software developers by the acquisition of legal contract specialist mLegal. | 12yrs
The UK Government is employing more military lawyers than ever before as soldiers become more litigious. | 12yrs
In a case of claim and counter claim, Robert Lloyd, former GC at Jaguar Mining faces a lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duty and fraud. | 12yrs
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Slaughter and May has collaborated with Carillion Advice Services (CAS) to outsource some of its work from Vodafone, and looks set to offer the arrangement more widely to other clients. | 12yrs
Three partners and twenty other lawyers who specialise in a statutory compensation insurance scheme for Australian workers are switching over to join the Sydney office of HWL. | 12yrs
Chinese leaders are in the early stages of considering whether to allow international law to govern the free trade zones. | 12yrs
Freshfields has joined the growing number of law firms which market themselves by conducting polls of businesses. | 12yrs
Shanghai-based, 32-lawyer firm AllBright is opening a Hong Kong office on November 15 in association with Stevenson Wong & Co. | 12yrs
The upper echelons of the UK legal sector are splitting into two groups by earnings - as the top ten law firms reward their partners with an average of a million pounds each. | 12yrs
Google and Facebook could be among the US companies that stand to benefit if German proposals to include data protection rules in planned US-EU trade agreements are taken on. | 12yrs
The number of claims filed to the London Commercial Court has risen 23 per cent over the last 12 months as lawyers rush to beat a six-year deadline in order to bring claims relating to the global financial crisis. | 12yrs