Wake Up Call: Corporate Legal Spending Rises, and Other News

• Corporate legal chiefs in 41 countries are spending more and hiring more in-house , according to a new survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel. (New York Times)

• Some 95 percent of law students who worked as summer associates at firms in 2015 received offers for full-time jobs at the firm following graduation, the highest rate in over a decade, according to new data from the National Association for Law Placement. (National Law Journal)

• A legal challenge to joint ventures in Saudi Arabia could force UK law firm Clifford Chance to undertake a major restructuring of its office in that country. ...