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Stephenson Harwood and Guangzhou-based Chinese firm Wei Tu have formalised their alliance by entering into a new association, as permitted under a free trade agreement between mainland China and Hong Kong. | 10yrs

Singapore-based firm Rajah & Tann is collaborating with KPMG to tackle the threat of data breaches. | 10yrs

The legal profession is set to lose 100,000 jobs to automation in the next two decades, according to a new study by Deloitte. | 10yrs

Eversheds has partnered with BPP University Law School to launch its Trailblazer apprenticeship programme in the UK. | 10yrs

Latest figures show that the number of new lawsuits filed with federal courts in the US slumped six per cent in the last financial year—though you wouldn't know it from the waiting times. | 10yrs

India's Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju has confirmed that the country's highly controversial sedition laws are now under review by the Law Commission. | 10yrs

The much discussed courtship between Berwin Leighton Paisner and Miami outfit Greenberg Traurig has hit a dead end, with both parties deciding to 'stay friends' but go their separate ways. | 10yrs

After weeks of speculation, US President Barack Obama has finally chosen Merrick Garland as his best bet for having a new Supreme Court justice approved before the end of his term. | 10yrs

A number of UK expats living in Europe have launched legal action to win the right to participate in the EU referendum. | 10yrs

A leading barrister says that he would like to see corporates search for alternative ways to deal with crises rather than relying on lawyers. | 10yrs

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has slammed the Pretoria government for unlawfully allowing Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir to exit the country while he was wanted by the International Criminal Court. | 10yrs

Navex Global has found that companies are taking longer and longer to follow up on allegations raised internally by employees, potentially damaging trust between employees and management and raising the risk of whistleblower retaliation. | 10yrs

A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 10yrs

The Yorkshire-based firm has called in administrators and transferred all existing client matters to Leeds practice Ison Harrison. | 10yrs

The Chinese insurance giant has enlisted Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom to advise on its latest $12.8bn play to wrangle Starwood Hotels and Resorts from the grip of rival suitor Marriott International. | 10yrs

Peter Herbert OBE says the Ministry of Justice recommended that he should be handed a formal warning for claiming that racism is 'alive and well' in British society and the judiciary. | 10yrs

Joseph 'Pino' Acquaro, who represented a number of prominent criminal figures, has been gunned down in what was believed to be a professional hit. | 10yrs

A new study from Consero Group has found that the vast majority of in-house departments are unprepared to deal with the legal fallout of a cybersecurity breach, despite most citing cybersecurity as a major risk facing their company. | 10yrs

A former employee of Volkswagen's US subsidiary has claimed that evidence was destroyed after the US announced that the company had installed illegal devices to cheat emissions tests on hundreds of thousands of vehicles. | 10yrs