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Top US firms sign up for Covid-19 small business legal clinic project

Kirkland & Ellis, Goodwin Procter among firms to join Lawyers for Good Government pro bono initiative

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Listed top 30 UK firm DWF issues profit warning as impact of Coronavirus bites

Additional credit facilities sought and cost cutting imposed in response to pandemic

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BakerHostetler hires from an array of rivals to unveil nine-partner Dallas office

Recruits from Winston, Wick Phillips, Baker Botts, Barnes & Thornburg and Kirkland form firm's 16th office

UK firm McCarthy Denning allies with Singapore boutique ArrowGates

London-based challenger firm also hires private client partner Zac Lucas to support Asia expansion

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UK listed law firms react to Covid-19 by cutting salaries and ditching dividend payments

Knights reduces employee salaries above £30k by 10%; Ince cancels interim dividend

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Advanced buys Tikit from BT to tap into 'sophisticated' legal tech market

Deal provides Advanced with greater UK and Am Law penetration and promise of taking Tikit to 'new level'

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Allen & Overy hires two Orrick partners in Washington DC and appoints new office head

Magic circle UK firm builds US enforcement capability; projects partner Jean Lee take reins

Jones Day rated top US legal brand as Eversheds Sutherland breaks into top 20 for first time

Acritas ranking sees Jones Day at summit for fourth year; Eversheds Sutherland's top 20 debut comes three years after transatlantic merger

UK listed firm Gateley scraps interim dividend pay out due to Covid-19 disruption

Reduced activity due to coronavirus prompts 'prudent' move to maximise liquidity in face of reduced activity

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Is Europe's unified patent court dead in the water - or can it be revived?

The demise of plans for a European patent court is bad for clients, but could be better news for London

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Fried Frank hires Boies Schiller duo in New York to bolster global litigation capabilities

Partners Robin Henry and Motty Shulman latest in string of departures from Boies Schiller

Freshfields partner leaves firm after investigation

London disputes partner and Brexit expert Tom Snelling left the firm's partnership on 19 March

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Less than a quarter of UK lawyers use AI-assisted tech, research finds

Major study finds lawyers lack faith in their firms' and legal departments' ability even to capture data

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Immuta chief legal officer co-launches Washington DC-based AI legal boutique

Andrew Burt will co-run firm with former SAS data scientist Patrick Hall

Concerns over two-tier response to Covid-19 with lower paid denied remote working

UK union berates some firms for failing to equip staff for remote working; US document review staff complain of virus hot beds

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Orrick secures four-partner UK energy team from Watson Farley & Williams

Arrival of highly rated team comes as partners depart from Paris and Düsseldorf offices and firm confirms winding down of Hong Kong practice

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Magnusson co-founder leaves firm to launch advisory business

After seeing his firm grow into a major regional practice, Per Magnusson starts afresh

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Orrick pulls out of Hong Kong after conceding defeat on tech growth strategy

Four-partner office is to be wound down; firm pledges continued investment in other Asia markets

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US firms trimmed 2019 summer recruitment programme sizes even as offer rates hit record high

Large firms may have been paring number of law student places in anticipation of economic slowdown, NALP report suggests

Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton postpone merger in response to Covid-19 pandemic

National duo delay deal to the summer as leaders of newly merged Faegre Drinker praise staff for level of collaboration in face of crisis

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