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Former Clifford Chance affiliate VILAF has boosted its energy practice by acquiring sole-partner local boutique LDV Lawyers. | 13yrs

Vodafone's top lawyer joins an advisory board while Physicians' Capital Investments and Avnet get new legal leaders. | 13yrs

Online sales giant Amazon is shuffling its pack of European external advisors to create its first European law firm panel. | 13yrs

Litigation levels rose to 2010 levels last year at companies in the US and UK with regulatory investigations hitting a five-year high, according to US law firm Fulbright's 9th Annual Litigation Trends Survey. | 13yrs

More than 40 per cent of US companies had lawyers on their board of directors in 2009, almost doubling the figure from 2000 while slashing litigation risks and adding value to the company, a study this week found. | 13yrs

A number of US law firms were attacked by Chinese hackers potentially compromising a wealth of sensitive client information, a US cyber security specialist has claimed. | 13yrs

Ireland is preparing for a rush of mergers and acquisitions as its economy starts to recover despite concerns that the eurozone recession is worsening, a report from Irish corporate law firm William Fry has said. | 13yrs

Foreign lawyers who wish to practise Cayman Islands law must have substantive links to the jurisdiction to avoid any potential damage to the country's reputation, a leading lawyer said yesterday. | 13yrs

Former Goldman Sachs Group director Rajat Gupta was yesterday ordered to repay $6.22 million of a $6.9 million legal bill paid by Goldman Sachs in connection with his criminal insider dealing case. | 13yrs

A new project to protect vulnerable foreign clients from legal hawks has been established by multi-family office Oracle Capital Group in a joint venture with Australian lawyer Dr Yuri Rapoport, creating the first legal brokerage service in London. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice.... | 13yrs

As the legal marketplace changes, many firms are going down the acquisition route. But, says Stuart Crowther, the integration process is crucial to the success of the merger. | 13yrs

Cash-strapped prosecutors at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) pick and choose cases, keeping potentially expensive trials in-house even if they are not the best qualified to handle them, a leaked e-mail has claimed. | 13yrs

Leading international law firms with offices in Hong Kong are upping their recruitment of mandarin speakers in order to crack Chinese market, sparking a race for top jobs between lawyers in the region. | 13yrs

The sophistication of consumers of legal services will cause law firms to move away from the traditional 'full service' approach and adopt tighter, targeted strategies which play to their strengths, a consultancy group suggested last week. | 13yrs

Pittsburgh-based law firm K&L Gates has broken with convention and posted its 2012 financial results online, partly in response to the collapse of New York firm Dewey & LeBoeuf last year, according to various media reports. | 13yrs

British energy giant BP will today kick-off its civil trial against the US states which were affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, for which it could face an unprecedented fine of up to $17.6 billion. | 13yrs

Despite the preconceptions that lawyers are an overworked and cynical bunch who you would not want to be stuck in a lift with, one psychology guru has found that lawyers are, in fact, normal people. | 13yrs

Stanford University's law school has founded a human rights centre, which will be led by Professor James Cavallaro. | 13yrs