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Millionaires and other high net worth individuals are altering the ways they manage their money under pressure from changing tax laws and various other factors. | 13yrs

Clyde & Co is signing up to a formal association with Indonesian firm Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo (LGS). | 13yrs

A spike in M&A work has helped push profits up to £5.8 billion in 2012/13 for the UK top 100, according to research from Legal Business. | 13yrs

Up to about 100 second-tier Swiss banks are facing penalties of up to 50 per cent of the value of assets which were hidden with them by US citizens. | 13yrs

Apple's filing of a trade mark application on the use of the word 'startup' in Australia looks set to face intense scrutiny. | 13yrs

A fast-track agreement between the US tax authorities and Swiss banks will lead to the disclosure of third party advisers and other professionals who were involved in tax evasion schemes. | 13yrs

The lawyer who represents a convicted drug dealer has been arrested and accused of seeking to raise up to US $ 3 million in order to secure his client's release through bribes. | 13yrs

A Michigan law professor has invested his own money in 'quantitative legal prediction' systems which could overhaul the litigation sector if it proves successful. | 13yrs

Amazon's hiring of Ted Olson, one of Washington's leading lawyers, is being seen as a sign of its determination to tackle challenges to its tax advantages. | 13yrs

Sceptics about the liberalisation of the UK legal services market will find support for their views at the £3.4 million, six-month loss announced by Co-operative Legal Services this week. | 13yrs

Faced with yet another legal setback on curbing compensation claims following the 2010 oil spill, BP is 'reviewing its options'. | 13yrs

The arrest in Belarus of the Russian chief executive of a leading potash company threatens to set back relationships between the two countries and disturb the global potash sector. | 13yrs

Baker & McKenzie has upped profits per partner by 10 per cent on its way to record profits of £1.56 billion. | 13yrs

The top six US banks have accrued $103 billion in legal expenditure in the past five years - more than they have collectively paid in shareholder dividends. | 13yrs

The former head of one of the largest Romanian law firms, Bostina & Asociatii, is to stop practising the law after a tumultuous year in which he was shopped by his wife, disbarred, sent to prison and released. | 13yrs

Washington DC is the clear legal capital of the US, with a concentration of lawyers far denser than anywhere else in the 52 states. | 13yrs

The manager of Detroit, former Jones Day partner Kevyn Orr, is getting full judicial co-operation to move the city's bankruptcy proceedings ahead as fast as possible. | 13yrs

A former Asia partner in K&L Gates has gone to jail in Australia after orchestrating a HK$8.5 billion scam on 92 victims. | 13yrs

Riverview Law - the fixed price law firm which is challenging the traditional law firm model - is to planning to recruit 100 new people in order to double its size over the next year. | 13yrs