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Law firm Slaughter and May has emerged as one of the best-performing City firms for trainee retention in the Spring 2016 round. | 10yrs

In the latest of China's crackdowns on its legal sector, detained Swedish legal aid worker Peter Dahlin has been shown on Chinese state television apparently confessing to carrying out illegal acts and seeking to undermine the Chinese state. | 10yrs

After two decades of stalled negotiations, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced that foreign lawyers will soon be granted the right to practice in India. | 10yrs

A senior Melbourne lawyer is facing accusations that he sexually harassed a female colleague over seven months last year, allegedly sending her explicit photos and bombarding her with unwelcome, sexually explicit text messages. | 10yrs

Motoring insurance and services group the Automobile Association (AA) has announced that its legal services offering, AA Law, has failed to take off and will exit the market. | 10yrs

Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Linklaters and King & Wood Mallesons have been appointed as advisers for Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank's (CYBG) planned public listing. | 10yrs

The former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (pictured) has left Houston-based law firm Bracewell & Giuliani and joined international law firm Greenberg Traurig. | 10yrs

A recent survey has shown a huge disparity between firms in the proportion of training contracts they award each year to paralegal employees. | 10yrs

On Thursday, New York-based legal services firm Axiom announced an agreement to acquire the general counsel business of Toronto-based law firm Cognition. | 10yrs

A US court has ruled against Samsung Electronics in the most recent patent case between the electronic giants and long-time competitor Apple. | 10yrs

Volunteer student lawyers at Avon & Bristol Law Centre who are working to overturn UK Department of Work and Pensions 'fit for work' rulings are winning a staggering 96 per cent of their case load. | 10yrs

Since launching its dedicated litigation department in 2012, energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has reduced its annual litigation caseload by almost one third. | 10yrs

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has announced the expansion of its specialist Middle East offering with the launch of three new Associations in Riyadh, Beirut and Kuwait City. | 10yrs

An upcoming lawsuit in which a US casino operator will seek damages from its cybersecurity contractor adds a new layer to the data breach 'blame game'. | 10yrs

Only days after the resignation of William Boss, European practice head of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), Taylor Wessing has announced it has hired KWM chief operating officer for Europe and Middle East Rachel Reid. | 10yrs

Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index has ranked Pinsent Masons as the fifth best overall employer for LGBT staff, the highest ranking obtained by any UK law firm. | 10yrs

The high-speed trading practices of Deutsche Bank are to meet legal scrutiny once again, with lawyers indicating that a new lawsuit will be brought against the bank in a British court later this year. | 10yrs

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

In an open letter published by The Guardian, prominent lawyers and jurists from Europe, North America, Australia and Pakistan have urged Chinese premier Xi Jinping to release a dozen Chinese lawyers and legal assistants held in detention. | 10yrs