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Barrister Amal Clooney is to be part of the international legal team seeking the release of the former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, who was last month sentenced to 13 years in prison. | 11yrs

The good times are back for legal departments with in-house lawyers sharing increased bonus payments. | 11yrs

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

Clifford Chance is following Allen & Overy by cutting back on its headcount in Russia as instability in the country has reduced the amount of capital markets work and tightened the flow of other matters. | 11yrs

Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith has announced that the company will be helping its suppliers address issues over paid leave. | 11yrs

Professor Alan Dershowitz, criminal defender of Claus von Bulow, Patty Hearst and many others, will not face underage sex charges, after a Florida judge threw out cases against him and Prince Andrew as being irrelevant to the main case being tried. | 11yrs

Damien Atkins replaces retiring chief legal officer Robert Marin who has enjoyed a long career at the Japanese company. | 11yrs

CEOs across the luxury industry will join lawyers to look at the challenges and risks facing this rapidly changing sector at this year's Luxury Law Summit on 19 May in London. | 11yrs

The giant Dentons Dachung merger was one of the main contributors to Q1 showing the busiest tie-up activity since consultant Altman Weil began recording such transactions in 2007. | 11yrs

Ellen Pao, the venture capitalist who used to work at Cravath Swaine, has spoken out against sexism in the venture capital industry after losing her discrimination claim against former employer Kleiner Perkins. | 11yrs

The 30-year old IP lawyer who worked for DLA Piper and was murdered in a Washington DC hotel last month met the woman alleged to have killed him through an advertisement he placed on the online notice board Craigslist. | 11yrs

Two insurance litigators have joined Foran Glennon, the fast-expanding US practice, to open its first base abroad. | 11yrs

Jose Ramon Gonzalez became Chief Legal Officer of QBE North America a year ago. | 11yrs

Omega has lost a case over discounted watches against Costco which was selling Omega products at 35 per cent less than the watch company. | 11yrs

Regional US law firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has laid off a total of 32 staff - including 14 lawyers - from its energy teams in six of its US offices. | 11yrs

Fifteen of the staff who survived the terrorist attack on the Paris-based magazine in January have said that the €30m received by the title has made it 'tempting prey' for lawyers and financiers. | 11yrs

EU measures to block Chinese imports of cheap goods could be in breach of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules if they continue after December 2016, according to Luis Romero Requena, head of the European Commission's Legal Service. | 11yrs

A woman has been charged with the murder of the associate in Washington DC. | 11yrs

Jaguar CEO plans to complain to the Chinese over alleged similarities between a Chinese car and one of its vehicles. | 11yrs