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The surging robotics market - estimated to be worth $82b within 10 years in the drone sector alone - is expected to need the services of vast numbers of lawyers across numerous disciplines, according to a new title launched tomorrow. | 11yrs

The New York managing partner of Reed Smith has edited a white paper highlighting drones as a 'game changer' and discussing the 'serious legal issues' they raise as well. | 11yrs

After a two-year moratorium ended this week on the use of drones in Virginia, law enforcement are said to be still studying the laws and refining piloting skills before they start using the devices in the air. | 11yrs

Children born today may never need to get a driving licence to use a car, according to an OECD report - but they could be deprived from some potential advantages by restrictive regulation. | 11yrs

South Africa's new drone rules, which take effect today, enshrine far heavier potential prison sentences than other countries that have similar rules. | 11yrs

Building in ethical controls over robots is a main theme of a UK scheme aimed at fulfilling plans to excel in robotics as one of the country's 'eight great technologies'. | 11yrs

China is including 'numerical control tools and robotics' as one of ten industries in which it plans to become a world manufacturing power over the next decade. | 11yrs

US law firms appear to be spending more on technology - with most of them aiming to improve quality, client service and productivity, according to experts. | 11yrs

A lawyer who used to work with the poor in Canada has launched 'Canada's first 3D printing company dedicated to the courtroom' to produce visual aids - reproductions of wounds to the skull or other body parts, for instance - to explain evidence. | 11yrs

A Consumer Drone Safety Act could suffocate the development of a sector expected to deliver over 100,000 jobs in the next decade, according to specialist lawyers. | 11yrs

Rules which come in on 1 July to permit drones will help to make Africa the world's biggest commercial operator and consumer 'within the next few years', according to Adam Rosman, founder of Aerial Monitoring Solutions. | 11yrs

A professional video-maker at rock concerts had faced a sentence of up to a year in jail if found guilty in a New York state court of second-degree attempted unlawful surveillance - by filming a medical centre. | 11yrs

An association of drone operators in Australia is urging rules to be laid down to permit greater coordination between states in response to the increasingly common use of hostile drones 'at all levels of conflict around the world'. | 11yrs

Olswang is to focus its German practice through its Munich office and its TMT sector group, following the departure of 13 equity partners and their staff - mostly in corporate and finance - from Berlin. | 11yrs

Wragge Lawrence Graham - a member of the Autodrive driverless car consortium - is to develop White Paper proposals to facilitate the UK trial of these vehicles, a move that appears more important now that global manufacturers are preparing to test | 11yrs

A new bulletin, The Robotics Law Journal, is being launched to help lawyers open up gigantic commercial markets in drones and other forms of robotics and AI - sectors which are seen as being held back by a lack of regulation and legal expertise. | 11yrs

Apple has revoked Monster's authority to make licensed accessories for its devices, which Monster claims is retribution for the lawsuit it has brought against Apple unit Beats Electronics LLC. | 11yrs

The International Bar Association (IBA) is pushing an app which links into nearby Wi-Fi networks and records date and location - as a way of helping collect more reliable evidence of human rights abuses. | 11yrs

Cooley LLP, the Palo Alto law firm that represents Silicon Valley grandees such as Google, eBay, Facebook, and LinkedIn, has advised music startup Jukely on its launch in the UK. | 11yrs