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Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto has lost its managing partner Colleen Tracy. | 12yrs

A surplus of lawyers in England and Wales is affecting employment for recently graduated law students. | 12yrs

Massive compensation bills in the banking and oil sector are now looking likely to be followed up by a multi-billion bill for General Motors which is now attempting to resolve its ignition switch problems. | 12yrs

Arnold & Porter has come top of the American Lawyer's first international pro bono ranking while Jenner & Block leads the domestic US table. | 12yrs

Lawyers and others who seek to act as arbitrators in the US financial sector could see their chances of being appointed severely cut back under proposals being examined by the SEC. | 12yrs

BNP's former head of compliance, Vivien Levy-Garboua, and its head of ethics and compliance for North America, Stephen Strombeline, are among 13 executives leaving the bank. | 12yrs

Revenue has risen at the 3,000-lawyer firm to £1.36b, with profit-per-equity-partner reaching £1.14m. | 12yrs

The Kansas Bar has ruled that there is no duty to report mental decline if no ethics violation has taken place. | 12yrs

BP is seeking repayments of compensation from 'a vast number' of organisations that have received money in relation to damage they suffered by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in 2010. | 12yrs

The majority of in-house lawyers at large multinationals are experimenting with new ways of buying legal services, and nearly two-thirds have used contract lawyers. | 12yrs

Al Tamimi, based in the United Arab Emirates, has opened up in Bahrain, giving it a presences in all six Gulf Cooperation Council states and in eight countries in the Middle East. | 12yrs

Employees in the Canadian Justice Department were over seven times more likely to fall for scam emails than average members of the public, according to government research. | 12yrs

The Bar Council of Malaysia has given details of the licence system which it will run and regulate for foreign law firms and lawyers. | 12yrs

Miami-based Holland & Knight is closing its sole Middle East base in Abu Dhabi and refocusing on the US and the Latin American markets. | 12yrs

A weekly round-up on moves across the globe. | 12yrs

The Vietnam Lawyers' Association is entering one of the most troubled international disputes in the world by supporting its government against China. | 12yrs

Northern Ireland's senior coroner has warned the British government of a breach of international law if it continues to inadequately resource inquests into historic Troubles killings. | 12yrs

The US Supreme Court's ruling that police cannot search the cellphones of people they arrest without a warrant will affect far more people than the 12m arrested in the US each year. | 12yrs

The Beijing office of King & Wood Mallesons has helped Walmart win a landmark employment dispute in front of a Chinese arbitration panel. | 12yrs