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Obama Taps Biglaw Attorneys for Ambassadorships

The Obama administration has recently tapped three Biglaw bigwigs for ambassadorships. Howard Gutman, a partner at Williams & Connolly, was…

Bermuda’s Appleby Global will merge with the Isle of Man's Dickinson Cruickshank. The legal, fiduciary and administration service firm will…

Miller Canfield has established an office in Toronto, Ontario. The new office was formed through a merger with the 10-lawyer…

Gibson Dunn will open a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the next few weeks. The office will consist…

Christchurch, New Zealand law firm Lane Neave has opened an office in Queenstown. It is the firm's first major expansion…

Greenberg Traurig has launched a London office, a new UK firm called Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Paul Maher joins from…

K&L Gates has snagged a four-lawyer team from the Berlin office of Freshfields. Partner Ludwig Hausmann joins the Berlin office…

London's The Times newspaper predicts that up to 10,000 UK lawyers could lose their jobs over the next two years,…

Melbourne, Australia's Hall & Wilcox apparently has not heard that major law firms are shedding lawyers and freezing or cutting…

Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland will provide AUD $40,000 ($32,500) to the National Pro Bono Resource Centre, to create paying work…

Top Birmingham, UK law firm Wragge, which just announced a redundancy consultation targeting 85 and a salary freeze, happened to…

Pinsent Masons is holding a redundancy consultation. It has not announced how many positions have been targeted. The firm employs…