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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. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

The Russian communication authority has blocked 83,000 websites without proper justification in the last year. | 13yrs

Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira has launched a 50-strong, international start-ups team, 'an initiative of a group of young lawyers'. | 13yrs

Legal services outsourcer Exigent has grown its global team to 400 professionals and software developers by the acquisition of legal contract specialist mLegal. | 13yrs

The UK Government is employing more military lawyers than ever before as soldiers become more litigious. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up on in-house moves from around the globe | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

Chinese leaders are in the early stages of considering whether to allow international law to govern the free trade zones. | 13yrs

Freshfields has joined the growing number of law firms which market themselves by conducting polls of businesses. | 13yrs

Shanghai-based, 32-lawyer firm AllBright is opening a Hong Kong office on November 15 in association with Stevenson Wong & Co. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

Overnight telephone receptionists have seen their work surge in the last year as clients make more calls during off duty hours. | 13yrs

Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson is to pay over US$2.2bn as a settlement with federal and state authorities for kickbacks and other misdemeanours over the last ten years. | 13yrs

The top real estate lawyer in the SJ Berwin London side of the King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin merger, David Ryland, has gone to join Paul Hastings only four days after the global merger took place. | 13yrs