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Leading global firms will take candidates’ backgrounds into account when recruiting

22/05/2015(0)
New contextual recruitment tool will ‘set a new benchmark for social mobility’ in the City International law firms Baker & McKenzie and Hogan Lovells have become the first to ... Read More
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BNY Mellon to pay $180 million to settle foreign exchange lawsuit

22/05/2015(0)
Bank of New York Mellon Corp will pay $180 million to settle a foreign exchange-related putative class action lawsuit, the bank said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. The ... Read More
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Third of lawyers say no to partnership in favour of work-life balance

21/05/2015(0)
Perception of the legal profession’s glass ceiling not seen as a main impediment to law firm leadership roles Work-life balance and stress are the primary reasons lawyers are not ... Read More
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Legal troubles continue to brew despite FX settlement

21/05/2015(0)
European Banks embroiled in the FX rigging scandal saw their shares rise yesterday after regulatory fines came in lower than unexpected, despite further legal woes looming on the horizon ... Read More
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Six Banks Pay $5.8 Billion, Five Plead Guilty to Market Rigging

20/05/2015(0)
Six of the world’s biggest banks will pay $5.8 billion and five of them agreed to plead guilty to charges tied to a currency-rigging probe as they seek to ... Read More
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Big Law Firms Winning More of Intellectual Property Work

20/05/2015(0)
As disputes over patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets have grown, the nation’s biggest law firms have wrested away much of the lucrative intellectual property litigation work from smaller ... Read More
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Sarao Loses Bail Appeal as Judge Says He Is a ‘Flight Risk’

20/05/2015(0)
Navinder Singh Sarao lost a bid to secure bail while he fights extradition to the U.S. on market-manipulation charges as a judge said the 36-year-old trader was a clear ... Read More
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UBS to Plead Guilty on Libor, Fined by Fed in Currency Probe

20/05/2015(0)
UBS Group AG said its main unit will plead guilty to fraud in the U.S. for manipulating benchmark interest rates and pay $203 million in fresh fines after the ... Read More
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Dentons launches NextLaw Labs and creates legal business accelerator

19/05/2015(0)
Dentons, the global law firm, today announced that it is launching NextLaw Labs, a global collaborative innovation platform focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes to ... Read More
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New York Weighs Jurisdictional Rule for Foreign Firms

18/05/2015(0)
Some lawyers say bill is at odds with recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling New York lawmakers are weighing a bill to make foreign companies submit to the jurisdiction of ... Read More
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