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The two Louisiana firms have not admitted liability but have agreed to pay at least $1m each to settle claims that their conduct helped jailed former billionaire Allen Stanford operate a gigantic Ponzi scheme. | 11yrs

Some large law firms in Canada and the US are 'addressing lawyers' requests for work-life balance' by offering new non-partnership track roles - but the price appears to be that they get half the usual salary, says recruiter Robert Half Legal. | 11yrs

Without the decision of banking partner Bruno Soares to remain with Allen & Overy, the firm would have been left with just two associates in Brazil's biggest city. | 11yrs

Following controversy over the relationships between legislators who have earnt millions from law firms without clocking up hours for clients, the state is being asked 'to close the no-show job loophole'. | 11yrs

The controversial practice area of challenging the methods and decisions of state attorney generals is spreading to new firms as Cozen recruits ten specialist professionals - including the 8 lawyers - from Dickstein Shapiro. | 11yrs

Confidential conversations between former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer can be listened to by corruption investigators, according to the Paris court of appeal. | 11yrs

London - the city which boasts more billionaires per capita - could lose some of its attractions to the extremely wealthy if the Conservatives are ousted from power, according to immigration lawyers and other wealth specialists in the UK. | 11yrs

Kennedys has set up Kennedys CIS Advocates in Russia in association with a small local team and the intention to focus initially on high value insurance disputes. | 11yrs

The former head of the Barclays legal team in the Middle East is moving to Hong Kong to take up a partnership post with Eversheds in the financial services disputes and investigations team. | 11yrs

White & Case has taken what it calls 'a strategic step' in strengthening its EMEA capital markets team by bringing on board Debashis Dey, formerly head of capital markets in the Middle East for Clifford Chance. | 11yrs

The US managing editor of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett, has praised the signs of hope and 'wild renaissance' taking place in Detroit, following the appointment of a Jones Day partner as its emergency manager. | 11yrs

Peter Gray, the partner who was held to have deliberately misled the High Court in the UK, appears to have left the firm and is considering setting up his own practice, according to The Lawyer. | 11yrs

Law firms attending the International Trademark Association meeting in San Diego are putting on a total of 41 parties - up 64 per cent from the more austere days of 2014 when only 25 were staged in Hong Kong. | 11yrs

The head of the British bank told analysts that it is 'anticipating some challenging outcomes' - as it announced £867m of legal provisions in its Q1 results. | 11yrs

Brunei has joined the small group of countries in the world which have introduced some of the Sharia criminal code. | 11yrs

Lewis Silkin, which houses one of the world's largest employment law teams, is opening its first branch abroad - by sending two lawyers and four other staff to Hong Kong to serve the Asian market. | 11yrs

Mary Jo White, chair of the SEC and formerly adviser to leading banks at Debevoise, may have to recluse herself from decisions regarding the ability of JP Morgan and UBS to raise capital - with the result that they might be denied such powers. | 11yrs

Citing concerns over potential conflicts of interest, a San Francisco property partner and two other lawyers are bailing out of McKenna Long to join the 60-strong real estate team at Arent Fox. | 11yrs

Lawyers for the families of 149 people who died in last month's crash in the French Alps might sue in the US because the US gives greater opportunity for extra damages relating to future earnings and family distress than one started in Germany. | 11yrs