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The Association of Corporate Counsel has made a stand on the independence of in-house counsel in Germany. | 12yrs

UK lawyers are more likely to be in good health than other people, with 88 per cent reporting good health compared to 81 per cent of the general population. | 12yrs

The Bank of England more than doubled its legal costs to £5m. | 12yrs

Pinsent Masons has come top whilst Slaughter and May is bottom in a rating of the way the top 20 London law practices use Twitter. | 12yrs

The phone-hacking trial, one of the most expensive prosecutions ever, saw Kingsley Napley client and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks walk free whilst her former deputy faces jail. | 12yrs

New York and Los Angeles-based property specialist Duval & Stachenfeld has set up a Caribbean/Central America real estate practice group. | 12yrs

Bird & Bird has taken the unusual step of adding two firms from the same country, Indonesia, to its Pan-Asian network of allied firms. | 12yrs

The former head of Norway's Data Protection Authority, George Apeness, and 19 other top lawyers, have backed a proposal to give this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency employee-turned-whistleblower. | 12yrs

Hamilton Harrison & Matthews and Oraro Company have announced they are merging. | 12yrs

Arbitration is fast becoming the dispute mechanism of choice in Africa, say Dr Stuart Dutson, Lucy Webster and Timothy Smyth of Eversheds. | 12yrs

Lawyers spoke about the changing law field at ReInvent Law London last week with a wealth of ideas coming to the fore. | 12yrs

Cleary Gottliebe, Torys LLP, Goodmans, Koskie Minsky and Gowling Lafleur are among the law firms working on the Nortel Networks bankruptcy, now becoming infamous for its fees bill. | 12yrs

The American Bar Association is giving the green light to lawyers to look into the Facebook and other social media sites of both potential and deliberating jurors. | 12yrs

US law graduates have seen employment rates fall for the sixth year in a row. | 12yrs

The newly-launched 'Lawyers for Yes' group, which backs Scottish independence, has been launched with a membership of over 100 QCs, university law professors and other lawyers. | 12yrs

Women represent 14.2 per cent of all lawyers working in Qatar, according to statistics from the government. | 12yrs

Barristers' incomes have fallen by 12 per cent in the last two years, hit by falls in legal aid and increased competition. | 12yrs

Stephen Volk, senior partner of Shearman & Sterling for a decade, is to take over as chair of Citigroup's investment bank. | 12yrs

UK firm Taylor Wessing is setting up US operations but will not be practising local law. | 12yrs