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New domestic and EU laws will stub out menthol cigarettes and 10-packs from tomorrow
May 19th, 2016
Smokers are in for a bitter cocktail of regulation tomorrow as EU and UK laws come into force, phasing out 10-packs, menthol cigarettes and introducing new plain packaging rules. Manufacturers will be banned from producing 10-packs of cigarettes under ...
Global Law firm to move 170 operational roles to global service centre in the Philippines
May 19th, 2016
Global firm Norton Rose Fulbright is relocating 170 operation roles to a global service centre in the Philippines — including a number from the UK, the Gazette understands. It is the latest international firm to announce a relocation of ...
International law firm opens office in Taipei to serve the growing demand in Taiwan
May 19th, 2016
International law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP announced the opening of an office in Taipei, to serve the growing demand of the firm’s clientele in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific. V&E partners David Tsai and Christopher Kao will oversee ...
Privately educated dominate senior ranks at top law firms
May 18th, 2016
The biggest diversity survey of the legal profession yet undertaken charts patchy progress on gender and race – but privately educated solicitors remain vastly over-represented in the senior ranks of the biggest firms. The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s third diversity ...
Global law firm launches in Latin America and the Caribbean
May 18th, 2016
Global law firm Dentons, Colombia’s Cardenas & Cardenas, and Mexico’s López Velarde today formalized their combinations. The launches follow the initial announcement last December that partners of each firm approved the combinations. With these combinations, Colombia and Mexico are ...
Five more women added in gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG US
May 17th, 2016
Five more women have been added as named plaintiffs to the ongoing $350m (£243m) class action gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG’s US arm. On 13 May, Sanford Heisler, the law firm representing the five plaintiffs, filed an amended complaint ...
Revenues and hourly rates both up at US law firms
May 16th, 2016
Fresh data from Citi Private Bank has placed revenue growth at US law firms at its strongest level since 2008. According to Citi’s latest report, law firm revenue grew by 5.8 per cent in the first quarter of this ...
A law firm has hired the first “Robot lawyer”
May 16th, 2016
The first job after law school can be horrendous—not simply because of the intense workload and long hours, but also the drudgery. A huge amount of legal work given to those on the lowest rung of the ladder consists ...
French law firm opens office in Moscow
May 13th, 2016
This office, run by David Lasfargue, employs 15 people including 10 lawyers and legal experts. Jeantet is strengthening its international presence and is now the most dynamic French law firm in Eastern Europe following the opening of its Kiev ...
Panama Papers law firm to take legal action over leak
May 12th, 2016
The law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal says it is filing suit against the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for the leak of information it says is false. The public gained its first access ...
