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Law firms are among the largest financial supporters of the Hillary Clinton campaign to become the Democratic presidential candidate - as her accounts reveal that she has raised £46m. | 10yrs

The general counsel of Massachusetts Mutual has explained why the insurer stopped doing business with the now-defunct Bingham. | 10yrs

The former Asia head of the Winston & Strawn litigation group, Adrian Yip, has moved to Morrison & Foerster along with three associates. | 10yrs

Property law firms are turning out to be a particular target for fraudsters in the UK because of their access to the bank account details of clients and because time pressure in property transactions often provides opportunities for fraud. | 10yrs

A team led by partner Irving Picard has been working since 2008 on the liquidation of assets of Bernard Madoff, convicted of using Ponzi scheme arrangement in his investment business. | 10yrs

The Indian government is hoping to pass an amendment this session which would allow foreign lawyers to come to India and represent their clients in arbitrations. | 10yrs

On July 20 2015, the EEOC issued a statement announcing the federal appeals court's decision to dismiss Abercrombie & Fitch's appeal of the EEOC's religious discrimination case. | 10yrs

The Italian firm's US office will be headed up by resident partner Yan Pecoraro. | 10yrs

A lawyer in New Zealand has said that the behaviour of employees 'even if they are on their own time' will be taken into account by employers - referring to a case in which two government workers were recently suspended in relation to a video. | 10yrs

The leading Japanese firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto featured Toshiba in a corporate governance book it published in May, unaware of the fact that the company had been routinely overstating its results over the previous six years. | 10yrs

The latest research suggests that the proportion of UK litigants in London's Commercial Court has increased. Outside Europe, Eurasia (Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Russia) and the Middle East and North Africa topped the list. | 10yrs

The team is being led by Micah Green, who will head the Steptoe & Johnson financial services team as well as chairing the government affairs & public policy group from the Washington DC office. | 10yrs

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has submitted comments as part of the review of the bill on intelligence, and made several suggestions to bring the law into compliance with the right to privacy and the right to legal advice. | 10yrs

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced on Sunday that every undocumented immigrant child in New York will now be given access to a lawyer in order to plead their case. | 10yrs

Average debt levels held by US law firm partners have fallen a third since 2008 - partly because of concern over the problems that happened at heavily indebted Dewey & LeBoeuf, according to research from Citi Private Bank. | 10yrs

The nine-office, 420-lawyer international firm is teaming up a firm of risk mitigation specialists and a set of barristers chambers to offer a 'full-service cyber investigations and compliance team'. | 10yrs

Proposals from the Intellectual Property Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have called for commercial infringement of copyright to be punishable by a ten year prision sentence, instead of the current two year maximum. | 10yrs

The abrupt resignation of UK regulator Martin Wheatley - seen as the head of the 'bankers are bad' regime - is being greeted with sober welcome in public but rejoicing in the back rooms of the City of London institutions. | 10yrs

The chair of the 1,800-person firm has revealed that it makes extra efforts to reassure both partners and staff over the finances of the firm 'in the post Dewey era'. | 10yrs