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Recently made up law firm partners suffer from increasing anxiety over their ability to develop business and win clients, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

Companies are running an ever-keener eye over long legal bills as corporate clients are less willing to bankroll overhead costs and extras such as car services, meals and photocopies, a report on US business attitudes indicates. | 14yrs

Pittsburgh-headquartered global law firm Reed Smith has launched a partnership with King's College London to give law students work placements at the firm's London and Paris offices. | 14yrs

Reform of England's legal profession at times might seem like an inexorable steamroller, but senior figures in the London market continue to remain resistant to core elements of the new world. | 14yrs

London-founded international law firm Norton Rose has boosted its African presence with the opening of a Tanzania outpost in the country's largest city Dar es Salaam. | 14yrs

Law student and aspiring gun maker Cody Wilson has had his printable 'Wiki Weapons' scheme blocked after the maker of a 3D printer he leased seized the machine. | 14yrs

London-based CMS has opened in Barcelona, adding to its already established Spanish presence in Madrid and Seville and taking the total number of the franchised law firm's offices to 53. | 14yrs

Canadian law firm Fasken Martineau is to merge with Johannesburg-based outfit Bell Dewar in the latest move by a global legal practice in South Africa. | 14yrs

A former Supreme Court judge has blasted the Nigerian judicial system for being 'weak' and has offered little hope that it will improve. | 14yrs

London-headquartered international law firm Eversheds has ended its alliance releationship with a South African firm due to conflicts between the firms. | 14yrs

A leading Trinidad & Tobago lawyer has called on the head of the body representing the Caribbean island's legal profession to resign over allegations of conflict of interest. | 14yrs

Philadelphia-headquartered Dechert is being countersued by a former associate who claims the law firm's 'macho culture' cost him his job. | 14yrs

Republican law makers are running out of money in their bid to defend controversial legislation that defines marriage as a heterosexual union, with the specialist law firm instructed nearing its billing cap. | 14yrs

A federal court in Texas has dismissed a class-action from former female employees of Walmart that claimed the world's largest retailer discriminated on the grounds of gender - but individual actions are likely to proceed. | 14yrs

A fourth judge was named earlier this week to sit on the Dubai special tribunal created to handle what is expected to be a flood of litigation following the default of one of the Gulf emirate's state-run investment groups. | 14yrs

Guidance released earlier this week clarifying the position over continuous disclosure for listed entities in Australia has won backing from expert lawyers, with the move described as 'helpful and pragmatic'. | 14yrs

Milan and Rome-based Legance is to open a London office next year, the Italian law firm announced earlier this week. | 14yrs

Legislation defining marriage as being between a man and a woman violates US equality laws and is unconstitutional, an appeal court ruled yesterday in what could be a landmark decision for other common law jurisdictions. | 14yrs

For a select group of lucky law firms, the row between two of the world's technology giants -- Apple and Samsung -- is the litigation that just keeps giving, with the latest round going to the South Koreans. | 14yrs