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Lloyd's of London has warned that insurers might need to take 'greater risk mitigation measures from drone operators' in a report called 'Drones Take Flight'. | 10yrs

The Australian competition regulator has fined Visa for anti-competitive conduct. | 10yrs

Issues relating to sound recordings could become more of an issue - especially in the context of the camera and audio recording equipment carried by drones, according to the French privacy regulator in an interview with the Robotics Law Journal. | 10yrs

The Indian antitrust authority has released a lengthy report evaluating allegations of monopoly abuses by Google. The document's release coincides with the launch of a platform to help companies to collectively sue the search engine. | 10yrs

Cisco's lawyers at Winston & Strawn claim in a lawsuit that HP is refusing to pay a US$58 million balance. | 10yrs

The new office space that Paul Hastings is moving into next spring is to contain seating for first and second year newly-qualified lawyers in pods of 12 on the ends of floors, in spaces to be known as 'end zones'. | 10yrs

NewLaw is offering innovative business models and better work-iife balance than BigLaw, according to law professor Joan Williams of the University of California at Hastings. | 10yrs

The three partners are joining DLA in Manchester, with one becoming a consultant and the other two becoming partners in the infrastructure, construction and transport group. | 10yrs

A fall in the number of deals that lawyers advised on in H1 2015 is being seen by the Law Society as the possible preface to 'a short term stalling in the recovery of the UK and international economy'. | 10yrs

After 20 years of preparation, Indian law firms are ready to compete with law firms from abroad, according to the president of the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf). | 10yrs

The former general counsel at Dewey, the US firm which ceased operations in May 2012, has given evidence about how the 1,000-lawyer practice was 'in crisis' from early on that year. | 10yrs

Slater + Gordon, the listed Australian law group, has delayed publication of its annual results for four days, creating speculation that it might have an unpleasant surprise to disclose over its UK purchase, the troubled legal arm of Quindell. | 10yrs

Third Point, a US based hedge fund, has avoided a large fine by settling with the US government over claims it breached antitrust law in 2011 when it acquired a minority stake in Yahoo. | 10yrs

Paris-based luxury brand owner Kering has won a court order banning sales of counterfeit versions of its high-end goods by certain vendors in ecommerce company Alibaba Group's online marketplaces. | 10yrs

Benesh Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff has opened its eighth US office in the US by recruiting litigation partners Andrew Jarzyna and David Pope from Ulmer & Berne. | 10yrs

Rene Bruelhart spoke to the Financial Times about his role as the Vatican's chief anti-money laundering enforcer and about his co-operation with his next door neighbour, Pope Francis. | 10yrs

Chicago lawyer John L Steele has been charged with eight counts of fraud, dishonesty and improper use of the courts system after allegedly systematically pursuing illegal downloaders of porn, threatening them and then settling cases. | 10yrs

Litigation is described as an 'arms race' of 'dubious necessity' carried out by lawyers who are usually accused of being greedy but who are often 'unhappy and overworked', in an article in The New Yorker magazine. | 10yrs

When the two new partners arrive, Morgan Lewis & Bockius will have recruited five partners from K&L Gates to staff its London structured finance group. | 10yrs