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Banks and other high pressure businesses in London may be seeing their staff turn increasingly to drink and drugs, according to specialist law firm GQ Employment Law. | 12yrs

Emails purporting to come from the US federal judiciary and from state courts are currently being used to spread malware. | 12yrs

Clifford Chance is stoutly defending itself in a High Court case in which it has been joined as a third party on the grounds that it gave negligent advice. | 12yrs

Business-friendly Chile is likely to be the scene for numerous legal clashes this year between local communities and mining companies, according to environment specialists. | 12yrs

New billing arrangements and the appointment of non-legal specialists are among the innovations being seen in Louisiana in response to multi-billion infrastructure projects. | 12yrs

Lawyers in the US are copying internet ideas such as crowdsourcing and Wikipedia to offer legal analysis and views online. | 12yrs

Hogan Lovells has opened its second Brazil office, in Sao Paulo, with the appointment of Isabel Costa Carvalho, a new partner who was with Clifford Chance for over 20 years. | 12yrs

As difficulties continue within the Australian legal market, two boutique practices have decided to close down. | 12yrs

Professor Clive Chirwa, formerly the chief executive officer of Zambia Railways Limited, has 'ditched' lawyers engaged to defend him from corruption charges. | 12yrs

As leading law firms present their studies of the M&A market, Freshfields is highlighting the importance of India as an investment destination to FTSE 100 businesses. | 12yrs

Half of financial executives believe that law firms should explain litigation finance techniques to clients at the start of a law suit. | 12yrs

Emails purporting to come from the US federal judiciary and from state courts are currently being used to spread malware. | 12yrs

The US's largest bank, by assets, has published results which are, yet again, pulled down by having to make provision for legal costs. | 12yrs

The US Supreme Court has, for the first time, considered an issue over an investment treaty arbitration in a dispute between BG Group and the Republic of Argentina. Lisa Richman of McDermott Will & Emery discusses the possible outcome. | 12yrs

Apple has used a 'campaign of character assassination' against Michael Bromwich, the lawyer appointed to monitor its competition policies, according to a US Department of Justice attorney. | 12yrs

The International Criminal Court's prosecution of Uhuru Kenyatta - who would be the first sitting president to sit before it - is being undermined by the prosecution and the Kenya government, according to a barrister for victims. | 12yrs

As US states start to allow marijuana to be taken for recreational use within the confines of the law, lawyers are asking how employers will handle the issue in practice. | 12yrs

In a surprise to some observers, the Fifth Circuit appeals court in New Orleans has made a decision which would see BP pay compensation to some claimants who suffered no loss as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. | 12yrs

Basil Hwang, managing partner of Dechert in Hong Kong, joined the Zhong Lun associate firm, Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson. at the start of January. | 12yrs