Liverpool’s Silverbeck Rymer is set to be acquired by software and outsourcing firm Quindell Portfolio in one of the first takeovers of a law firm under the U.K.’s Legal Services Act. The deal, which requires regulatory approval, will create a combined insurance claims outsourcing operation.Visit International News

Changes in the legal profession — and how law schools should respond — was the hot topic during a recent conference drawing 3,000 educators. To hammer home the need for law schools to adapt or risk looking outdated, one speaker showed a picture of Swedish pop group ABBA and played part of their hit song “Waterloo.”

The president had the legal authority to make recess appointments earlier this month, even though the Senate was technically still in session, the DOJ has concluded, finding that periodic pro forma sessions in which no business is conducted do not strip the president’s power to bypass the Senate in making appointments.

Advanced law degrees, with the exception of LL.M.s for foreign-trained lawyers and tax LL.M.s, have no value in the legal job market and can hurt candidates by signaling uncertainty about career paths, according to Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Steven John, who spoke at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.

Advanced law degrees, with the exception of LL.M.s for foreign-trained lawyers and tax LL.M.s, have no value in the legal job market and can hurt candidates by signaling uncertainty about career paths, according to Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Steven John, who spoke at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.