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Houston-based McDonald Worley is offering to look into cases where people or businesses feel they have been unfairly turned down by insurers or have been subject to delays. | 10yrs

The case has been going on for 17 years, including four hearings at the Nebraska Supreme Court and the possibility of a fifth. | 10yrs

A new regulator and a rise in disputes are among the factors feeding into the Russian insurance market - a sector that refuses to shrink despite the obvious challenges. | 10yrs

About 50 lawyers at the firm have been involved in designing LaunchPlus, a legal navigation tool for financial start-ups through which the firm hopes to recruit as clients the next generation of hedge funds managers and traders. | 10yrs

Matthew Dick, trade mark attorney and partner in D Young, has become famous in the UK for persuading the editor of The Times crossword to let him compose clues and answers including the phrase 'Will you marry me' and 'Delyth', his girlfriend's name. | 10yrs

Katherine Adams, General Counsel at the New Jersey-based conglomerate, says that law firms were 'kind of shocked by this' when she introduced e-auctions as a way to keep down costs. | 10yrs

Clyde & Co has appointed Sally Sfeir-Tait as a partner in its Regulatory and Compliance team. Ms Sfeir-Tait specialises in the financial services sector and will be based in the firm's Abu Dhabi office, servicing the wider MENA region. | 10yrs

A liberalisation of UK pension laws this year is leaving law firms wondering if there is a danger that their older staff 'may not want to or may not be able to afford to retire because they have not saved enough or have spent their pension funds'. | 10yrs

The head of failed Florida-based Butler & Hosch has been added as an individual defendant to a class action complaint brought by some ex-employees - and has been accused of creating $7m of false invoices that were not sent to clients. | 10yrs

Linda Martin, famed for her role in the Accenture - Andersen separation, joins the 15-partner and 70-associate US Freshfields dispute resolution team in New York in September. | 10yrs

Singapore-based RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has taken on Anthony Chey and Vernon Voon as partners in the firm's litigation and dispute resolution practice from Tan Kok Quan Partnership. | 10yrs

Baker & Botts has lost its long-running case about claiming costs over disputed fees - after the Supreme Court has held against it over the Asarco bankruptcy. | 10yrs

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has decided to go ahead with a keynote speech delivered by a senior White House official - despite opposition by several members who claim the administration has been hostile to immigrants. | 10yrs

Cherie Blair, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, has talked of the enduring business significance of the Magna Carta as part of the 800th anniversary celebrations of the sealing of the document. | 10yrs

The outgoing head of the O'Melveny & Myers London office - 41-year old, Nigerian-born Solomon Wifa - joins Wilkie Farr & Gallagher today, bringing strength to the UK private equity and funds group. | 10yrs

Business law firm Hall & Wilcox has hired an additional 37 team members, all coming from Sparke Helmore. They join a senior associate and five partners who moved to the firm in April. | 10yrs

The Indian government is said to be investing US$50m in speeding up the patent application process - partly as a result of the work of Anand and Anand, one of India's leading patent law firms. | 10yrs

The Atlanta-based US firm which represents half of the Fortune Global 100 has been accused by a plaintiff lawyer of conspiring to hide faulty ignition switches with its client General Motors in the case in which 60 people lost their lives in crashes. | 10yrs

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot dead by police in London in July 2005 after being mistaken for a terror suspect, are challenging his case in court in Europe. | 11yrs