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America's wider employment market is growing at twice the rate of jobs in the country's legal sector, according to local media reports of US government figures released this week. | 13yrs

New year partnership promotion fever continues at law firms around the world | 13yrs

Campaigners have called on the Turkish government to comply with international principles following the arrest of a further 15 lawyers in the country last week. | 13yrs

Dissatisfied clients are unlikely to complain formally over poor legal services, a leading consumer protection enforcer has revealed. | 13yrs

India's top judge has told the country's sharp-toothed lawyers they must water down a shark-like image or face the prospect of people losing faith in the legal profession. | 13yrs

Disgraced former top cyclist Lance Armstrong could be set for several big money courtroom battles after he admitted using performance-enhancing drugs during his career, lawyers have warned. | 13yrs

Two leading Southeast Asian law firms have announced plans to open offices in Burma, with one already confirming the launch of a practice in the country. | 13yrs

An Ohio high teacher of 35 years has sued her school district, claiming it discriminated against her because of her disability - a phobia of young children. | 13yrs

Before Dewey went down in flames last year, there was Howrey in 2011. Now the bankruptcy trustee is playing hard ball | 13yrs

Sao Paulo law firm Brandi Partners is opening two overseas offices as well as launching two strategic international partnerships as part of a rapid expansion project highlighting the increasing muscularity of Brazilian lawyers. | 13yrs

More than a quarter of a million patent applications were filed at the European Patent Office in 2012, a record figure for the organisation, it was revealed yesterday. | 13yrs

A Leeds-based team of non-lawyers -- backed by the founder of betting exchange website Betfair -- announced its leap into the legal market yesterday. | 13yrs

Compliance with regulation and tumbling turnover were the two major gripes revealed by a survey of legal services providers in England, the results of a unique research project revealed earlier this week. | 13yrs

Oxford University's student newspaper has unearthed a report of an embarassing prank involving an old boy who is now the British government's attorney general. | 13yrs

A leading global intellectual property and technology practice commissions the telling of its own history -- and it's far more riveting than some might assume | 13yrs

Most business support staff at UK law firms saw their wages rise last year despite tough economic times, research today revealed. | 13yrs

US Supreme Court judges are reported to be leaning towards a groundbreaking ruling dictating that the country's federal courts should hear negligence claims against lawyers in patent matters and not their state counterparts. | 13yrs

Estate planning lawyers have hailed a recent Cayman Islands judgment as clarifying when the beneficiaries of multi-million trust funds could forfeit their cash because of unacceptable behaviour. | 13yrs

Totemic men's magazine Playboy has been fined £100,000 in an unusual move by a UK regulator after failing to protect children from pornographic material on its websites. | 13yrs