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All 'but a few' ex Howrey partners have reached a settlement with the trustee, four years after Howrey's bankruptcy - but the agreed payments by the partners could cause controversy as they average just US$1,595 for each of the 47 people involved. | 11yrs

Former University of Texas law professor and Texas Solicitor General, Ted Cruz, is to seek the Republican presidential nomination and will be able to draw on Washington DC contacts gained from working at leading lobbying firm Cooper & Kirk. | 11yrs

Rodgin Cohen said that banks have put 'an enormous amount of resources' into improving their cultures and he questioned the prickly nature of relations with regulators which seems to be an over-reaction to allegations of cosiness in the past. | 11yrs

Earlier settlements and the handling of disputes in-house are behind the layoff of 21 litigation lawyers and 17 litigation staff at Goodwin Procter - a move that could point a trend at other firms which have bulked up their dispute resolution teams. | 11yrs

Lawyers and other tax advisers who aid clients evade tax will the the subject of penalties under a new criminal offence which is to be announced by the UK government today. | 11yrs

Letters were yesterday auctioned at Bonhams in London relating to the involvement of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in clearing the name of an Anglo-Indian solicitor who served three years in jail for horse mutilation. | 11yrs

UK law firms working with small and medium-sized organisations are optimistic about growing fees and cash flow - despite the fact that profits fell on average from 24 to 20 per cent of turnover during 2014. | 11yrs

The creation of a legal ombudsman service to settle disputes could be central to the preservation of a functioning business sector, according to US lawyer Bate C Toms who is based in Kiev and heads the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. | 11yrs

The value of a supposedly independent report by Clifford Chance into RBS, the leading UK bank, has been undermined by MPs who have described it as 'not independent, based on narrow terms of reference' and leaving 'a number of questions unanswered'. | 11yrs

The partner, now a white collar crime partner in a top New York law firm, was verbally abused by the lawyer, causing her much stress. | 11yrs

The founders of RetitzMauck are highlighting the way IP litigation costs have 'exploded' and how newer practices can operate on a much lower expenditure rate. | 11yrs

The 350-lawyer New York-based litigation specialist firm is making a round of redundancies, said by one source to amount to as many as 40, in response to unpredictable demand. | 11yrs

Richard Owen - who is said to have used most of the money on his coin collection - could face a prison term of up to 50 years after embezzling funds relating to 41 clients in Georgia between 2007 and 2012. | 11yrs

Paul Hastings is to open a new office in Brazil after recruiting banking partner Robert Kartheiser from Allen & Overy, the last A&O partner in that office, as well as two Latin American A&O specialists based in New York. | 11yrs

The 650-lawyer firm Baker Donelson is the top-placed law firm in the Fortune 100, reaching 30th place for its flexible working, paid sabbaticals and for letting staff structure their work to reflect their needs and aims. | 11yrs

Both the new Greek government and the troika would like to see the country's shipping magnates contribute more to the country's financial restructuring but a 1953 clause in the constitution, said to be penned by Shearman & Sterling, is saving them. | 11yrs

The financial backer of Google and Amazon, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is a place of no rules, 'becoming a cult of personalities' and 'an aggressive, tough environment', according to the employment lawyer sent to investigate it. | 11yrs

A team of six Freshfields litigators, led by counsel Maxim Kulkov, has quit the practice in order to set up a dispute resolution practice called Kulkov Kolotilov & Partners. | 11yrs

The first detailed survey of lateral partner moves in the UK tax and private client area shows a growth of interest in developing private wealth and tax litigation teams - partly reflecting increasing complexity of the law in this sector. | 11yrs