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The duo from Indiana were spotted outside the divorce lawyer's home, sitting in a vehicle with a gun and a syringe of anaesthesia - but, after being arrested, they then disappeared and did not turn up at a court hearing. | 11yrs

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot dead by police in London in July 2005 after being mistaken for a terror suspect, are challenging his case in court in Europe. | 11yrs

Dentons, already the world's largest law firm, has confirmed to The Lawyer magazine that it is in non-disclosure agreements with 21 firms in Europe, Asia and Latin America. | 11yrs

A leading Thai law firm will offer Cambodian intellectual property services next month. | 11yrs

Corporate counsel perceive the current regulatory environment as bad for business, according to Grant Thornton LLP's 2015 Corporate General Counsel Survey. | 11yrs

The company has retained Littler Mendelson to defend it in court against allegations by Ian Miller of racist and homophobic comments in the workplace. | 11yrs

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

The Unite union is funding cases for 17 former and current employees of unidentified British airlines who claim to have been poisoned by toxic cabin air. | 11yrs

Barclays is able to enforce a partner loan against a former Dewey partner, after securing a High Court victory in London that could have seen banks become more reluctant to lend to partners if the result had gone the other way. | 11yrs

David Haigh, former GC and chief executive of Leeds Football Club, looks likely to have to represent himself as embezzlement and breach of trust charges were brought against him in the Dubai criminal courts. | 11yrs

Sam Laidlaw, the Macfarlanes-trained lawyer who was criticised for his luxurious lifestyle as he warned of possible energy blackouts while at the helm of the UK's leading energy business, is to build an oil and gas venture backed by private equity. | 11yrs

New graduates from law schools could be facing a 'tax bomb' in 17 years time if they are forgiven part of their educational loans, according to a professor at Southern Methodist University. | 11yrs

London-based law firm Leigh Day is in the initial stages of gathering clients for a group action against Foxtons with an ex-Clifford Chance lawyer likely to be the first claimant. | 11yrs

The UK's first listing of a law firm has gone ahead successfully - raising £30m on the junior AIM market, enough to return £25m to former partners and to provide £5m of working capital and for strategy implementation and the transition from an LLP. | 11yrs

The International Bar Association (IBA) is pushing an app which links into nearby Wi-Fi networks and records date and location - as a way of helping collect more reliable evidence of human rights abuses. | 11yrs

The 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta has highlighted its continuing relevance to law with 1237 rulings against EU countries in the last 10 years over breaches of the right to a fair trial. | 11yrs

The 1,000-lawyer specialist employment and labour law firm Littler Mendelson has informed San Francisco staff that it intends to make 113 of them redundant by the end of the month. | 11yrs

The 150-partner law firm, fresh from expanding on the east and west coasts of the US, is adding an affiliate office in Japan which will specialise in corporate tax. | 11yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills partner Gavin Margaretson has been named as chair of the International Chamber of Commerce's Commission on Arbitration in Thailand. | 11yrs