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A Los Angeles jury has awarded $48 million to a Californian man who was diagnosed with mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos while working on construction sites during the 1960s and '70s. | 14yrs

Legal salaries have grown in most regions of the UK, with substantial increases in the risk and compliance fields, according to survey results released today. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Herbert Smith has suffered its second high-level departure in a week after Shanghai mergers and acquisitions head Simon Meng resigned. | 14yrs

Two men have confessed to launching a series of computer hacking attacks on the web sites of major US and UK institutions, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. | 14yrs

Published by John Wiley & Sons Author: David Lawler April 2012; p/b £39.99 ISBN: 978-1-119-97197-9 | 14yrs

Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Author: Rachel Kleinfeld June 2012 P/B £14 ISBN: 9780870033483 | 14yrs

After 50 years in practice, many lawyers will have their eyes on the tomato plants and nasturtiums. Not Andrew Phillips, who remains as vigorous a campaigner as ever. He talks to Jonathan Ames about where the English legal profession is going wrong | 14yrs

Global general counsel answer our big question | 14yrs

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 14yrs

Bruce Carton - the President of legal media firm Docket Media and co-author of Law.com's Legal Blog Watch in the US - has been keeping an eye on the recent submissions for internet domain name suffixes. | 14yrs

'I quite like watching the TV comedy show 8 Out of 10 Cats,' begins Nick Kehoe in his blog on the UK's Law Gazette website. Rather than being a statement more suitable for a Facebook post or a Twitter tweet, Mr Kehoe is building to a serious point. | 14yrs

Lawyers as football referees | 14yrs

Having read about Dr Jay Parkinson and his innovative US healthcare services, legal commentator Jordan Furlong - writing on the Attorney at Work blog - muses whether the ideas can be applied to a lawyer's schedule. | 14yrs

Many a chief executive has nightmares featuring the heavy tread of regulators approaching the boardroom door. Deborah Blaxell suggests that having key information prepared in advance can take the worry out of such visits | 14yrs

Intricacies and details over litigation funding have historically been for the anorak crowd. | 14yrs

Transparency and accountability are crucial both in the fight against poverty and to promote social development. Lance Croffoot-Suede and Nathalie Hobbs argue that global law firms can play a vital role in the process | 14yrs

Third-party litigation funding is controversial, but the sector has grown rapidly in the past year. Nick Rowles-Davies gives a global perspective on an increasingly buoyant market | 14yrs

Reforms to the French legal profession started under the Sarkozy regime are not likely to be jettisoned by his successor. But, argues Antoine Tchekhoff, business lawyers and their clients should still keep a wary eye on President François Hollande | 14yrs

Conflict of interest rules continue to be in disarray in one of the US's most important jurisdictions following an important ruling earlier this month in California. | 14yrs