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The number of US law firm mergers and acquisitions announced in the second quarter of this year dipped below the average deal flow for the last two years, with experts citing the demise of New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf as a key cause for the decline. | 14yrs

London-headquartered global law firm Clyde & Co is open offices in Sydney and Perth this autumn, the firm announced yesterday. | 14yrs

Several US state judges are preparing to consider whether illegal immigrants can join state bars and practise law in those jurisdictions. | 14yrs

Three South Asian American lawyers have scooped major prizes at an annual awards round designed to recognise leading work in that community in the US. | 14yrs

Chris Kourakis, South Australia's recently-appointed Chief Justice, has singled out the cost of justice as the biggest problem with the jurisdiction's legal system. | 14yrs

The Law Society of Trinidad and Tobago is on the brink of electing a new president following the resignation of all former members in connection with the loss of more than a quarter of a million dollars in association funds. | 14yrs

A Lagos high court has ruled that the Nigeria's leading legal professional body has no right or duty to regulate lawyers or validate the records of legal practitioners. | 14yrs

Brussels does deal, but lawyers still concerned | 14yrs

Families of the dead in the Costa Concordia disaster have hired scores of lawyers in both Italy and the US to pursue those responsible and also the parent company of the ship's owner. | 14yrs

Legal profession and judicial independence must be keenly defended as they can be seriously threatened in even long-standing democracies, a senior bar leader warned today. | 14yrs

Associates at Anglo-US firm Hogan Lovells are the happiest and most satisfied lawyers in the British legal profession, according to survey results released today. | 14yrs

UK law firms are hamstringing their growth by failing to match technology upgrades with business priorities, according to research released today. | 14yrs

The methods used to influence consumers through branding and packaging could be converted to the judicial process for copycat infringement cases, according to a report by London-headquartered law firm Speechly Bircham. | 14yrs

The damning regulator's report that has forced some of Britain's biggest banks to agree compensation deals over interest rate swaps has been described as having 'fairly limited thresholds' by a leading City of London lawyer. | 14yrs

American corporations are looking for a 'get-the-job-done' attitude in European law firms - with those practices boasting strong intellectual property expertise having an advantage in winning Stateside instructions, according to recent research. | 14yrs

An insurance company has agreed to pay costs incurred by a hospice caring for a 20-month-old infant seriously injured in a car crash, in what is being billed as the first British settlement of its kind. | 14yrs

Chicago-based international law firm Baker & McKenzie today announced the promotion of 63 lawyers to its the firm's partnership, taking its overall partner count to 1,400. | 14yrs

The partnerships of London-based firm Herbert Smith and Sydney-headquartered practice Freehills have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a merger, it was announced today. | 14yrs

The re-election campaign of current US President Barack Obama now includes a legion of lawyers as worries over the handling of new voter identification laws grow. | 14yrs