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  • Herbert Smith announces 5% revenue increase
    Herbert Smith has announced its revenues for 2008-09, with the top 10 City firm reporting a 5% increase in turnover. The growth takes revenue to £444m, up from £421.8m last...
  • CC to boost India ties with Mumbai partner switch
    Clifford Chance (CC) is gearing up to relocate London banking partner Chris Wyman to Mumbai in a bid to tighten its links with Indian alliance firm AZB & Partners. Wyman...
  • Investment banks hike legal pay after bonus cuts
    Several major investment banks have raised in-house legal salaries to offset falls in the amounts of bonuses being paid out. Research by recruitment agency Sheffield Haworth reveals that UBS, Morgan...
  • Burges Salmon completes top-level overhaul
    Burges Salmon has overhauled its management structure, splitting its partnership committee in two. The regional heavyweight has divided its main management group, creating a smaller partnership committee, which will concentrate...
  • BPP backs £300m takeover by US bidder
    The parent company of top UK law school BPP has accepted a £303.5m takeover offer from a US education provider in a move that will be closely watched by the...

OUT-LAW News
  • MEPs ask for more time before full vote on PNR data transfer
    Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have been asked not to torpedo a long-standing agreement on sending air passengers' personal details to US authorities to leave time for a new...
  • ASA to take over Facebook, Twitter regulation
    Advertising regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will take over the regulation of companies' social networking pages by the end of the year, according to advertising industry proposals.
  • Rescuecom drops AdWords suit
    A PC repair business has dropped its US lawsuit against search giant Google in which it tried to argue that Google infringed is trade mark rights by allowing people to...
  • EU ministers back revival of old IP enforcement law
    European Union minsters have told EU governing bodies to revive plans to create a pan-EU law criminalising intellectual property infringement, and to make more use of a new body to...
  • OECD gives companies anti-bribery advice
    International economic advice body the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published guidance for companies on how to combat bribery within their organisations just as the UK Government...

JISC Legal
  • Cap on Defamation Success Fees
    Under new Government proposals the amount of fees that solicitors can charge for successful libel cases on a no-win, no-fee basis will dramatically be reduced from April this year.  ...
  • DP Working Party on 'Controller' and 'Processor'
    The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has issued its opinion on the concepts of the terms 'controller' and 'processor.' ...
  • YouTube Improve Videos' Accessibility
    Every single YouTube video with English language audio can now support captioning created by speech recognition software thus improving the sites accessibility for videos.  ...
  • Our Newsletter Hits 1000!
    On Thursday, 7 March 2010, we had our 1000th subscriber to JISC Legal's free once-a-month newsletter, keeping the UK's colleges and universities up-to-date on matters of ICT and the law....
  • Watch Out YouTube
    A surprise amendment forced through for controversial clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill could lead to entire sites being forced offline if it becomes law. ...

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