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• Wragge & Co promotes 3 to partnership

  Mar 08 2012 Wragge & Co has promoted three lawyers to the partnership, ending the promotions freeze that saw the firm hiring, rather than promoting, talent in 2011. The new... more

• Taylor Wessing to launch tech practice in London

  Oct 25 2011 Taylor Wessing is set to boost its technology capacity with the launch of a second office in London. The office, in east London's 'Tech City' will offer expertise in... more

• Boutique corporate an tech firm hires former Wragges senior partner

  Jul 11 2011 Former Wragge & Co senior partner John Crabtree has left to become the chairman of boutique corporate and technology firm White & Black. White & Black managing... more

• Jones Day boosts German tech and media practice with Hogan Lovells hires

  Jun 21 2011 Jones Day has bolstered its German technology and media practice with the hire of a veteran intellectual property partner from Hogan Lovells, Wolfgang Buchner. Buchner... more

• CLAT 2011 Results: Technical Snags, Futile Scores; Students impatient

  May 31 2011 On May 28, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. approximately 24,000 eagerly awaited law-aspirants logged on to the website of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) with expectations to... more

• AZB advises on Rs. 141 crore ($30 million) tech deal

  May 17 2011 Tata Technologies, an engineering solutions and IT product developer, has raised about Rs. 141 crore ($30 million) by selling 13.04 per cent equity stake to Mizuho... more

• Thomson Reuters to launch online legal research service in Brazil

  Apr 29 2011 Revista dos Tribunais – a Brazilian legal resources company acquired by Thompson Reuters last year – is set to launch the first comprehensive online legal research... more

• Proskauer Rose encourages lawyers to use iPad

  Apr 28 2011 Proskauer Rose is offering all lawyers an iPad in an effort to encourage greater use of the technology. So far, 500 of the firm’s 700 lawyers have requested an iPad... more

• 2011: a good year for deal advisors in Asia-Pacific region

  Mar 09 2011 The Asia Pacific region is showing strong activity capital markets issuance and M&A, with deals hitting a high of US$84.9bn in Jan 2011. Singapore M&A partner at... more

• Apple hires top antitrust litigator Kyle Andeer

  Mar 01 2011 Apple’s has hired Kyle Andeer, a top former litigator at the Federal Trade Commission, to be its first in-house antitrust counsel. The hire took place a few months... more

• IBM invents a 'digital associate'

  Feb 17 2011 Robert Weber, the general counsel of IBM, says that that the company is developing a kind of digital associate called Watson. According to Weber, Watson is ‘a... more

• DLA Piper boosts London IPT practice with hire from Kemp Little

  Feb 11 2011 DLA Piper has boosted its London intellectual property and technology practice with the hire of partner Mike Conradi from technology boutique Kemp Little. DLA... more

• 7th ITechLaw International Conference: TFA Award to Trilegal Associate

  Feb 10 2011 The ITechLaw – International Asian Conference held a two day seminar on educating lawyers about the unique legal issues arising from the evolution, production,... more

• CMS Cameron and Integreon strengthen relations

  Jan 28 2011 CMS Cameron McKenna has recently outsourced its business services to Integreon, and impact of this decision has now resulted in CMS laying-off 33 of their 363 strong... more

• Mergers point to shift in legal services industry

  Jan 02 2011 Two recent mergers have highlighted changing currents in the legal services industry. Thomson Reuters' purchase of legal-process outsourcing firm Pangea3 and Axiom... more

• National Law School of India hosting ‘Consilience 2011’ conference on Law and Technology

  Dec 22 2010 The Law and Technology Committee (LTech) of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is hosting ‘Consilience’, a conference in April 2011, where... more

• Norton Rose expands with takeovers in Canada and South Africa

  Nov 15 2010 Norton Rose has announced an expansion, with the firm set to take over one of South Africa’s largest firms, Deneys Reitz, along with Canadian corporate firm Ogilvy... more

• Clearing the way for cloud computing in law firms

  Oct 20 2010 Cloud computing is the term used to describe systems that allow users to access software and data storage over the internet, rather than carrying them around on... more

• Bloomberg Law scores two top hires from rival LexisNexis

  Oct 19 2010 Bloomberg Law has recruited two former LexisNexis leaders to help push its rival legal research system. Lou Andreozzi, the former CEO of LexisNexis North America, has... more

• Twitter for law firms: prospects and problems

  Sep 21 2010 Is Twitter a valuable marketing tool for lawyers? This article in The Guardian predicts that Twitter will substantially increase its influence in the legal services... more

• Latham & Watkins release iPhone app for Wall Street jargon

  Sep 15 2010 Latham & Watkins has launched an iPhone application to assist lawyers working in finance with the terminology, including capital markets and banking slang, legal and... more

• Telecommuting - lawyers are on the move

  Jul 13 2010 A survey conducted by ABA has reported that more lawyers are ‘telecommuting’ (working away from the main office) than ever before. Seventy-one per cent of ABA members... more

• Cloud technology - US firms are slow on the uptake

  Jun 25 2010 Cloud computing technology is being heralded as the next revolution in the way that we all do business, but a new study from CompTIA has found that only 14 per cent of... more

• Gadgets: Lawyers’ New Best Friends

  Jun 02 2010 The world of gadgets has evolved in the last decade from being a pure luxury item to a necessity. more

• Ciena acquires Nortel's Ethernet Technology: Luthra advice on India leg

  May 07 2010 Ciena Corporation, a US based provider of communication network infrastructure, associated software and professional services has acquired the optical networking and... more

• Lovells invites 21 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 15 2010 Lovells has promoted 21 lawyers to the partnership in the annual promotions round – an increase from the 19 that were appointed in 2009’s round, but down from the 31... more

• Survey: Indian law firms need to be more tech savvy

  Jan 12 2010 A majority of Indian lawyers feel that law firms in the country are not technologically savvy and should gear up on that front to stay relevant. A majority of them... more

• Cooley Godward Kronish makes second round of staff cuts

  Oct 05 2009 In the second round of staff cuts this year, technology and venture capital law firm Cooley Godward Kronish LLP laid off 58 employees - about 7 percent of the firm’s... more

• Dewey hires star M&A team from Cooley

  Jul 09 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has hired three partners from Cooley Godward Kronish, including Richard Climan, one of the Silicon Valley firm’s top rainmakers and head of Cooley’s... more

• Court to broadcast file-sharing oral arguments over internet

  Mar 25 2009 Oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit will be broadcast online in an internet file-sharing case brought by the Recording... more

• DLA Lays Off Five UK Tech Lawyers

  Aug 03 2008 Legalweek reports that DLA Piper is in talks with a number of City fee earners in its technology, media and commercial group over job cuts, while further discussions... more

• Clean Tech Focus Helps Law Firms Clean Up

  Apr 19 2008 As more money flows into green technologies, law firms have increasingly adopted clean tech practice groups dedicated to guiding emerging companies and venture capital... more

• Leading IT lawyer Dr. Jan Geert Meents joins DLA Piper

  Feb 21 2008 DLA Piper is delighted to announce that leading IT lawyer Dr Jan Geert Meents will join its Technology, Media and Commercial ("TMC") practice as a partner in Munich.... more

• New Podcast: Law Technology Now

  Dec 07 2007 Law.com's new monthly podcast features the editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, Monica Bay, interviewing key experts of the legal technology community, about top... more

• Study: Law firm technology expected to grow

  Oct 12 2007 Although the largest U.S. law firms have average annual technology operating budgets of almost $10 million - about 17,000 per lawyer - market penetration by most legal... more