Olga Mischenko, formerly of DLA Piper, is to join the St Petersburg office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners as head of construction and PPP. | 9yrs

Israel's second largest lender, Bank Leumi, has become the latest bank to give notice of a settlement with regulators that looks likely to be much higher than previously expected. | 10yrs

The General Counsel for Singapore Press Holdings says that legal chiefs need to have more influence on top level decision-making. | 10yrs

Specialist employment lawyers in the US say they are starting to be asked for advice on ebola from employers. | 10yrs

Banks have stepped up the security checks they carry out on legal advisers, with on-site IT audits happening more frequently. | 10yrs

Competition has driven out hourly charging and nearly cut fees in half over the course of this year in relation to documentation on non-convertible debentures (NCDs). | 10yrs

A US$16.65b settlement agreed by Bank of America in August is being delayed because of the existence of certain waiver clauses in relation to $135m of that sum which is owed to the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). | 10yrs

The trend for US companies to move their HQs to countries with lower tax charges owes much to the ingenuity of government tax specialists who helped design or implement the rules and then went private. | 10yrs

Swiss bank UBS has come in 5% under analyst expectations in Q3 2014, held back by legal provisions of €1.5b. | 10yrs

Shipping tycoon Andonis Lemos looks set to lose the £13.75m he put up as a professional litigation funder because of family connections with the Clifford Chance partner handling the case. | 10yrs

Deutsche Bank is expanding and rejigging its board partly with the aim of tackling the legal and regulatory issues it faces. | 10yrs

A Tennessee lawyer has been censured for using improper methods to obtain her divorce. | 10yrs

A UK-based accountancy firm is planning to offer advocacy services in front of employment tribunals and a broad range of services, including legal advice, on low-end M&A. | 10yrs

Some 7,176 Kenyan lawyers are to offer services for free this week to highlight the availability of Legal Aid. | 10yrs

BT, the UK telecoms provider, has begun offering employment legal advice to external businesses just over a year after setting up part of its legal team as an ABS (alternative business structure) called BT Law. | 10yrs

Three insurance and commercial litigation specialists are leaving Sparke Helmore to open up a Brisbane office for Clyde & Co, its fourth in Australia. | 10yrs

Pressure is coming on the South Korean parliament to pass a bill which would increase the punishment handed out to civil servants who take bribes. | 10yrs

The three main challenges facing IP law firms are fixed fees, the pressure to attract new clients and growing profitability. | 10yrs

The Robert Half Legal 2015 Salary Guide predicts the biggest increases for compliance officers of ten years standing (5.2%) and for ten-year qualifieds at small to midsize law firms (4.9%). | 10yrs