Tax planning is the main area which millionaires and other high net worth individuals want advice on from private client lawyers. | 13yrs
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The number of High Court cases relating to data theft has trebled in two years - as new cloud storage services make it easier for employees to steal. | 13yrs
Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands are among the top locations that private client lawyers are being asked to advise on. | 13yrs
A programme designed to promote gender equality in the corporate legal environment has been launched to identify women in the US legal profession ready for general counsel roles in the next three years. | 13yrs
About 20 UK law firms are set to be named within the next five days over their use of private investigators in the hacking inquiry. | 13yrs
Standard & Poor's is linking its defence to a $5 billion US law suit to its right to free speech. | 13yrs
Businesses in Slovakia see poor law enforcement as their main barrier to operating effectively, according to the Slovakia Business Alliance. | 13yrs
Nearly three quarters of general counsel in global corporations cite anti-trust/competition issues as their top investment priority over the next 12 to 18 months. | 13yrs
A weekly round-up on in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs
TALI - the self-styled 'global business law innovator' - is launching an international employment law service to cover 80 countries. | 13yrs
In-house lawyers in Australia are putting pressure on law firms to give them cost certainty, according to the latest Compass Report from King & Wood Mallesons. | 13yrs
Kinstellar, the central and eastern European law firm, is opening a 10-lawyer office in Almaty, Kazakhstan. | 13yrs
Leading Australia firm Clayton Utz has seen revenues fall by $18.7 million as the country enters a tougher economic phase. | 13yrs
The lawyer to detained oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, the Kazakh billionaire and ex chairman of BTA Bank, has been arrested in Moscow. | 13yrs
Thomas Bach, the German lawyer and fencing gold medalist, is the favourite to become the next president of the International Olympics Committee (IOC). | 13yrs
The vast majority of private client lawyers, 82 per cent, have clients with family offices - and the signs are that the numbers of family offices are set to grow. | 13yrs
Half of UK law firms with assets under £100,000 are in the 'warning area', according to a new analysis of financial vulnerability. | 13yrs
Co-operative Legal Services, the UK-based alternative legal practice, is to start training its future solicitors online in a link with Manchester Metropolitan University. | 13yrs
Some leading legal marketing brands are being combined in the same unit, as parts of the LexisNexis and Internet Brands join forces. | 13yrs
A solicitor has been arrested in north-east Brazil on an extradition warrant from the Irish authorities. | 13yrs