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Law School Transparency, a group dedicated to improving consumer information concerning the value of legal education, has updated its estimates of the amount of...
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Yesterday
Here is an interesting article by Mark Harris, the chief executive of Axiom Law, a 900-person new-model legal services firm. Harris attempts to diagnose some of the...
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Taylor Wessing has overhauled its management structure in an effort to introduce younger partners into the firm’s leadership.
The firm’s trademark, copyright and...
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Singapore law firm Allen & Gledhill was the big winner at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2012, an industry event to recognised excellence in the South East Asia region....
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May 15 2012
Bristol law firm TLT is set to merge with Scottish litigation house Anderson Fyfe, gaining offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as eight partners and 45 employees....
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May 15 2012
International law firms have looked longingly at the booming legal services market in India for decades, but the country remains largely off limits for foreign...
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May 15 2012
Funding for legal aid services in Australia is disappointingly low, according to the Law Council of Australia after the release of the Australian government’s 2012-13...
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May 15 2012
As the partnership of Dewey & Lebouef’s partnership scatters across the legal services market, one senior partner has made an audacious claim against the firm,...
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May 15 2012
2nd juror is dismissed in the Roger Clemens trial . . . for sleeping during trial. Keeping your triers-of-fact engaged is a critical part of trial strategy.
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May 10 2012
Winston & Strawn has scooped up 24 litigation partners from ailing law firm Dewey & LeBouef, taking on a group of around 60 lawyers in total. Among the transferring...
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May 10 2012
Singapore firm Shook Lin & Bok has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner senior associate Azmul Haque as a partner and the co-head the firm’s India practice.
Shook Lin’s...
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May 10 2012
UK law firm Weightmans has posted revenues of £77.1 million in the 2011-12 financial year, an increase of nearly 33% that may see the firm enter the top 50 UK law...
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May 10 2012
Salans has closed its Hong Kong office weeks after pulling out of Beijing as it shifts the focus of its China practice onto Shanghai.
Salans has closed its Hong...
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May 09 2012
Leading Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is waiting on regulatory approval for the launch of a new office in Singapore, which will be its fifth...
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May 09 2012
Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens has initiated a redundancy consultation in its Private Client department, with four support staff roles and two legal roles at...
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May 09 2012
DLA Piper has promoted seven lawyers to the partnership across the Asia-Pacific region, and has elevated six lawyers to special counsel.
The details of the...
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May 09 2012
Law students taking the bar in New York next year will be required to do 50 hours of pro bono work as a condition of their license to practice.
Chief Judge...
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May 08 2012
Van Campen & Partners, the boutique private equity firm that spun off from Baker & McKenzie’s Amsterdam office earlier this year, has hired its eighth partner....
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May 08 2012
The University of California Hastings College of Law has decided to admit 20% less students this year, as part of an effort to shift legal education to better respond...
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May 08 2012
American Lawyer has released its new rankings, with some interesting results. The top 100 firms worldwide showed an average 5.3 per cent increase in gross revenue and...
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