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Dutch lawyers are firmly against the government's attack on the legal aid system. | 12yrs

US general counsel have put Wachtel Lipton top of their law firm rankings while their corporate director colleagues have chosen Skadden Arps. | 12yrs

Jones Day, the firm advising the city of Detroit on its bankruptcy, has also been called in to help in a similar bankruptcy case in California. | 12yrs

John Poulson, managing partner of Squire Sanders in Australian, wants partner pay to be linked to how they fulfil organisational values including the wellbeing of staff. | 12yrs

Spanish lawyer Mario Costeja Gonzalez has shaken up the law for internet publishers after the European Court of Justice backed his request for a right to be forgotten. | 12yrs

Twitter's general counsel is worth $28m whilst a host of other general counsel are also smiling all the way to the bank. | 12yrs

The Dewey & LeBoeuf saga continues with the bankruptcy trustee trying to clawback a total of $22.5 million from ex-partners, including its ex-Saudi Arabian partner. | 12yrs

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

General counsel are playing a greater role in ensuring business is sustainable as changes in legislation and regulation up the ante for corporates. | 12yrs

Barclays Bank will penalise any of its legal advisers which provide less value than expected by setting up a 'value account scheme' which rolls forward the deficit into the next contract. | 12yrs

The California Chief Justice has said that cuts to the courts budget have been so deep that people might be turning away from using them as a result. | 12yrs

Legal reforms which have been promised for the Shanghai free trade zone (SFTZ) have proved slow to appear and could be holding up some investment including a possible local firm tie-up by Linklaters. | 12yrs

Hogan Lovells is following Norton Rose Fulbright in deciding to exit the Czech Republic this year. | 12yrs

Lawyer Violetta Volkova, who represented Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the women sentenced to jail in August 2012, has been ordered to pay the equivalent of US$563 to her former client. | 12yrs

Lawyers have much to learn from financial advisers as to how to meet the full needs of clients rather than providing one-off services with gaps, according to a leading UK firm. | 12yrs

A set of depression guidelines, promoted by the Australian-based Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation (TJMF), has been signed up to by 15 law firms in Australia. | 12yrs

Withers has become the latest European firm to offer a special low-fee start-up packet to entrepreneurs. | 12yrs

Judge Steven Rhodes has asked Jones Day to explain why confidential documents on a mediation process involving the bankrupt city were sent to several creditors. | 12yrs

Legal experts are predicting that Malaysia Airlines will come under pressure to settle with the families of passengers on missing flight MH370 and that the cases will not reach court. | 12yrs