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A High Court judge has ruled that documents prepared by Clifford Chance for RBS relating to the fallout from the Libor scandal are protected by legal privilege, saying that lawyers should be able to give 'candid factual briefings'. | 10yrs

Ashurst finance partner Jamie Ng has led a team that has completed the first Shari'ah compliant murabaha (a form of credit sale) in Australia. | 10yrs

Exigent global managing director Nicola Stott and director of global legal services Kevin Van Tonder have called on in-house lawyers to embrace new technologies for contract management, or risk missing out on a wealth of potential commercial value. | 10yrs

Some 47 per cent of business development and marketing capabilities in Australian and New Zealand law firms are 'under-developed', according to a survey by the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA). | 10yrs

A recent survey from legal consultancy Altman Weil has found that, for the fifth year running, in-house legal departments are looking to trim back their outside legal spend in the coming year. | 10yrs

Al Jazeera America has suspended general counsel David Harleston and launched a 'full investigation' into his professional background, after a recent report in the The New York Times suggested that Mr Harleston may not be licensed to practice law. | 10yrs

The firm will be known as Dentons in all languages apart from Chinese, which will use the Chinese characters for Dacheng. | 10yrs

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

Foley & Lardner is understood to have decided against merging with Eversheds - even though it was said to be Eversheds' preferred merger partner just a week ago. | 10yrs

Gary Senior, chair of EMEA at Baker & McKenzie, has talked about the growing interest from international law firms in Africa and has said that mergers will be a path into the continent. | 10yrs

The Citi Private Bank's Law Firm Group has surveyed 178 law firms for its 2015 report, with those firms ranging in size from top 100 US practices to boutiques. | 10yrs

Some 64 per cent of respondents to the Legal Market Update survey say they are somewhat or very positive about the future of the legal market. | 10yrs

Slaughter has 44 relationships with FTSE 250 businesses, followed by Linklaters (38) and Eversheds in third place (34), according to research from The Lawyer. | 10yrs

London insurance partner Clive O'Connell gave an online interview last month in which he described Liverpool football fans as 'Scouse scum'. As a result, he no longer works at US law firm Goldberg Segalla. | 10yrs

The 'smart money' is on the large accountancy firms starting to challenge the law firms across the board of legal services in their next phase of development, according to James Tsolakis, head of legal services at RBS. | 10yrs

Money is not one of the top three reasons that law students give for choosing the subject in a poll at Northeastern University School of Law, but it has become more important, according to law professor William Henderson. | 10yrs

International legal specialist Horacio Gutierrez has been promoted with immediate effect to act as general counsel, following the promotion of Brad Smith to be president and chief legal officer. | 10yrs

Goodwin Procter is opening its second office in Europe through the move, which will be completed when the four real estate, finance and corporate partners finish their notice periods at Ashurst. | 10yrs

The week before Indian PM Narendra Modi's visit to the UK, a group of influential Indians have reportedly instructed lawyers to begin legal proceedings demanding the Government return the 105-carat Koh-i-noor diamond to India. | 10yrs