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The Chinese authorities are planning to help lawyers working on international litigation and other matters by offering them training to assist them in working with foreign counterparts. | 12yrs

Clifford Chance will take in its first Middle East batch of graduate trainees in the middle of August, and is taking applications for the 2015 and 2016 intakes until 10 August. | 12yrs

Irish law firms which recruit interns but do not pay them could end up stuck in a legal grey area about their duties. | 12yrs

Leading bankruptcy practice Diamond McCarthy is suing ex-partner Sheila Gowan, seeking some of the US$1.4m that is likely to be paid to her for work in the Dreier law firm bankruptcy. | 12yrs

UK law firms have been dropping equity partners like flies in the last year, according to Legal Week. | 12yrs

The US firm has hired a top healthcare lawyer to join its New York office. | 12yrs

The Law Report Group, New York-based publisher of the Hedge Fund Law Report and The FCPA Report, has been acquired by the Mergermarket Group. | 12yrs

The 180-lawyer, UK-based practice Hill Dickinson has begun consultations on possible job losses for 39 positions in its counter fraud group. | 12yrs

Criminal law firms are in for a grim time if the government does not back down on legal aid cuts, warns the new Law Society president. | 12yrs

The Dodd-Frank legislation is still not implemented in full four years after its signing - with the SEC in particular lagging behind. | 12yrs

Foreign lawyers could be more readily admitted in Texas if new rules come to fruition. | 12yrs

Tanzanian lawyers must honour the ethics of their trade, a former Minister of Home Affairs says. | 12yrs

Accountants, consultants and other specialist expert witnesses are expected to see growth and greater demand each year until 2019, according to IBISWorld. | 12yrs

Leading litigation law firm Winston & Strawn has made US$20m from its e-discovery service in 2013, its third year of running the facility. | 12yrs

Raleys Solicitors has been sacked by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) after referring to a hypothetical client as 'Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks' in its training material. | 12yrs

The newly merged firm of Squire Patton Boggs is consolidating the offices of its legacy firms in New York, Washington and Riyadh. | 12yrs

NautaDutilh patents partner John Allen was one of the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines plane 017 went down in East Ukraine. | 12yrs

More than 19,000 parents appeared in civil courts with no lawyer in cases about children because of issues in legal aid. | 12yrs

Senior lawyers at General Motors have been criticised by a Senate committee for failing to pass on warnings received four times from other lawyers to the company's senior management. | 12yrs