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Global 100 firms expand in Europe as Hill Dickinson hires a captain

01/09/2015(0)
Last week saw Global 100 firms building their presence in Europe, with White & Case bolstering its private equity (PE) practice and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton expanding its competition offering ... Read More
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Law firms given platform to share cyber threat information

21/08/2015(0)
Over 180 law firms including Davis Polk & Wardwell have applied to join the platform, which will be known as the Legal Services Information Sharing and Analysis Organization. The ... Read More
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The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Replace Lawyers, Too

20/08/2015(0)
Smart contracts promise to relieve businesses of the costs and lag-time of corporate legal work. This software-based change could affect services firms everywhere. Everyone has heard the hype about ... Read More
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Law firms head to the banks as lawyers target expansion

19/08/2015(0)
Lending tops £7.3bn as firms borrow to fund M&A, overseas offices, and lateral hires Long-term lending to UK law firms has risen by 28 per cent over the last ... Read More
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E-conveyancing among legal industry’s biggest IT concerns

12/08/2015(0)
Sixty per cent of firms are planning to adopt a digital platform for conveyancing, Property Exchange Australia (PEXA), in the next two years, a new survey indicates. Legal software ... Read More
Legal-profession

Mid-Size and Small Law Firms Confident They Can Succeed

12/08/2015(0)
Survey from Thomson Reuters and Managing Partner Forum shows positive market outlook Leaders of mid-size and small law firms are meeting or exceeding their profitability goals, and are confident ... Read More
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Will Law Firm Publishing Become Solely A Wire Service?

03/08/2015(0)
Vox columnist Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) believes the media is becoming a wire service. “…y guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale ... Read More
legal-news

Foreign lawyers working in China could be at risk of arrest

29/07/2015(0)
Australian commercial law firms operating in China should be seriously concerned about the recent crackdown on human rights lawyers, a professor of Chinese law says. Professor Bing Ling from the ... Read More
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India in talks with lawyers to open up legal services sector to foreigners

30/06/2015(0)
The Indian government has started talks with the Bar Council of India and other stakeholders on its proposal to open up the legal services sector to foreigners in stages. ... Read More
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New York and London are world’s toughest legal markets, says Cooley

15/06/2015(0)
The ‘jaundiced eye’ through which UK lawyers view the US law practices in London is one of the main factors contributing to the difficulties facing US law firms there, ... Read More
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