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M&A specialist Pascal Squercioni and colleague Antoine Gabizon, a tax lawyer, are leaving UGGC to join the Paris Freshfields office. | 12yrs

Law school graduates are finding work easier in larger law firms compared to the past couple of years | 12yrs

The Specialized Criminal Court in Jiddah has sentenced Waleed Abul-Khair to 15 years in jail for 'undermining the regime and officials' and 'inciting public opinion'. | 12yrs

Profits have risen by an average of six per cent in the Magic Circle law firms in 2013/14, increasing the gap between them and the next tier of law firms. | 12yrs

Two organisations representing lawyers have spent record amounts lobbying against proposals in New York state which could reduce awards in civil cases. | 12yrs

A leading Australian practice, RMB Lawyers, is switching to offer fixed fees across all its services. | 12yrs

Weil Gotshal & Manges leads the Bloomberg H1 private equity tables for this year, followed by Latham & Watkins and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. | 12yrs

US law firm Buchanan Ingersoll believes it has saved clients thousands of dollars because of a flat-rate fee it has negotiated with its e-discovery provider. | 12yrs

The new head of the US Department of Justice's criminal division is promising to be 'appropriately aggressive' and to bring further 'timely' cases against financial institutions. | 12yrs

Delays in passing a new property tax have meant that Hong Kong law firms have been accumulating huge amounts of unpaid property taxes on behalf of clients since February 2013. | 12yrs

Arthur Liman's River House penthouse is selling in Manhattan for $15 million. | 12yrs

Cypriot property investors alleging they were mis-sold Swiss franc mortgages have been advised not to accept discounted mortgage settlements by their lawyers. | 12yrs

A managing partner at a law firm has lost his case claiming the fixed age to retire at 65 is discriminatory but law firms cannot take comfort from the ruling. | 12yrs

The Criminal Trial Lawyers Association has said that the increasing use of direct indictment, dispensing with preliminary court inquiries, could lead to longer delays rather than saving time. | 12yrs

The London-based firm has also reported an increase in bonuses and PEP. | 12yrs

Thierry Herzog, the personal lawyer of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has also been questioned in the corruption investigation into Mr Sarkozy. | 12yrs

There have been 39 law firm combinations announced in H1 of 2014, about the same volume as there was in the first half of 2013, according to Altman Weil. | 12yrs

The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that bankrupt law firms cannot claw back unfinished-business profits on hourly fee matters as and when the lawyers take the matters to other practices. | 12yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer leads by deal value, and King & Wood Mallesons by deal number, in the Mergermarket data for H1 in 2014. | 12yrs