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Last week's Australian In-House Lawyer Awards paid tribute to the strength of female talent in the Australian legal sector, with many of the night's top accolades going to women and Telstra general counsel Carmel Mulhern taking home the top prize. | 10yrs

White & Case is considering the possibility of opening a European centre, possibly in the UK, following the success of back office bases that it has set up in Manila and Tampa. | 10yrs

Members of the European Parliament's special committee on tax rulings have taken aim at large US-based multinationals including Amazon, Google and Facebook, accusing the giants of using tax havens to dodge payments in EU countries. | 10yrs

Stephen Poor, chair of Seyfarth Shaw, cites Altman Weil research that suggests some of the fall in demand from in-house lawyers relates to 'work that the Chief Legal Officers have decided is simply no longer necessary'. | 10yrs

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

The office is being shut after a decade of operation, with the existing team being offered the chance to relocate to one of the firm's larger German bases in Frankfurt. | 10yrs

Gilbert + Tobin is investing in LegalVision, the 40-strong organisation that offers online fixed fee legal services to Australian businesses. | 10yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills believes law firms that, like itself, have set up insourcing teams in less costly locations will have greater control over quality than those which use external outsourcers. | 10yrs

Chadbourne & Parke and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman are understood to have walked away from the prospect of joining forces, possibly because of the latter's 1-1 ratio of partners to associates. | 10yrs

While many states require that law firms carry the names of their owners, Nevada has allowed a practice to be called Half Price Lawyers. | 10yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills, K&L Gates and Stephenson Harwood are among those instructed by the Serious Fraud Office in proceedings against former employees of Barclays and Deutsche Bank accused of manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor). | 10yrs

Berwin Leighton Paisner has announced it intends to open its first office in Myanmar. It has appointed partner Chris Hughes, former managing partner in Baker & McKenzie's Yangon office, to lead the expansion. | 10yrs

Three partners have emerged as the favourites to take over as senior partner at the Magic Circle firm next May, with another three highlighted as being in the lead to become managing partner. | 10yrs

Steven Metro is to be sentenced in a $5.6m insider dealing case brought by the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey, after admitting to stealing information on deals via computer from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. | 10yrs

Allen & Overy has recruited an Asian head of its Peerpoint service, who is to begin immediately to locate lawyers to work in the region. | 10yrs

Paris-based Valentin Ribet, who graduated from the London School of Economics in International Business Law in 2014, was killed at the Bataclan concert hall terrorist attack last Friday. | 10yrs

David Haigh, the former general counsel and chief executive of Leeds Football Club, is expected to be released from a Dubai jail today. The move will enable him to return to the UK and attempt to clear his name. | 10yrs

Major clients are putting smaller law firms to go national, according to a partner in commercial practice Mills Oakley. | 10yrs

Brown Rudnick partner Steven Friel joins the company to head its investment arm as Chief Investment Officer. | 10yrs