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A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 11yrs

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is increasing partner numbers by 3.7 per cent from 1 January, while augmenting the group of counsel by 16 per cent. | 11yrs

A new General Counsel position has been created at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) ahead of its conversion into an independent government company next year. | 11yrs

The international firm has released a mandate describing its needs for space within a 'leading edge office building in the Sydney CBD'. | 11yrs

Embattled Quebec-based drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals has reinstated Mason Morfit to its board to help fortify its defense against allegations of accounting impropriety. | 11yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills is hoping to get clearance for a local association that will enable it to open in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in the spring. | 11yrs

Microsoft CLO Brad Smith has called on the US government to respect European Union privacy laws for transatlantic personal data in the post-Safe Harbour era. | 11yrs

The Supreme Court will decide on the fate of James Mazi Parsa of Orange County after he was suspended for two years for having sex with a 17-year old employee and faces a range of range of different complaints from numerous sources. | 11yrs

Fortune 500 company Lear has halved the number of its in-house lawyers over the last decade - a trend which lets the $17.7m revenue business stay flexible on the legal side, according to GC Terry Larkin. | 11yrs

Melbourne-based law firm Maurice Blackburn, working with a coalition of anti-gambling groups called Alliance for Gambling Reform, is preparing a case arguing that poker machine operators are engaging in deceptive and misleading conduct. | 11yrs

Former judge Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt is to take on the role of director of integrity and legal affairs on 1 January. | 11yrs

Law firms are going through a 'dawning recognition' of the role of high tech in the legal sector - but it may be too late for some practices, according to an Altman Weil report. | 11yrs

Just under one in three students at Arizona Summit Law School who sat the bar exam in July got a pass - despite the school offering $5,000 to underperforming students to delay sitting the exam. | 11yrs

A report from the Law Society of South Australia shows that women are earning substantially less than men in the legal profession, but many women are working part-time and few have the years of experience that the long-serving men have. | 11yrs

Kirkland & Ellis is extending its restructuring practice in Hong Kong by recruiting its third ex-Hogan Lovells partner, Kelley Naphtali, a year after it founded the team there with two other ex-Hogan partners. | 11yrs

Volkswagen AG has suspended a larger number of employees than previously acknowledged, following advice from Jones Day, the law firm conducting an internal investigation into the company's emissions cheating scandal. | 11yrs

A number of leading law firms in the UK are said to have been the focus of cyber attacks, according to the Mail newspaper group, which has been investigating the breaches in the Talk Talk hacking over the last week. | 11yrs

There have been over one million views of the tongue in cheek YouTube videos made by Bryan Wilson, who calls himself the 'Texas Law Hawk'. | 11yrs

Kirkland & Ellis chief information officer Dan Nottke has revealed that his team sends fake phishing emails to people in the firm as a way of educating them not to open suspicious communications. | 11yrs