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Pinsent Masons Sends Litigation Work to South Africa

Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, will outsource litigation work to a firm in South…

Phoenix Legal says recent press reports that the Indian commercial law firm has penned a formal agreement with the UK's…

DLA Piper, which in April laid off eight associates in Dubai, is making another 22 positions redundant in its Middle…

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…