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The Court will rule whether American Menachem Zivotofsky can list Israel as his country of birth, as he was born in the politically-fraught city of Jerusalem. | 12yrs

Law firm Clifford Chance LLP reported there is no evidence to support the accusation that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) intentionally pushed small businesses into insolvency. | 12yrs

The 370-lawyer Florida-based firm Carlton Fields Jorden Burt has opened an office in LA under Mark A Neubauer, formerly national head of Steptoe & Johnson's litigation team. | 12yrs

Some 38 per cent of respondents to a survey said they would use the web as the first port of call in looking for a lawyer, while only 29 per cent said they would ask families or friends. | 12yrs

French giant Fidal merged together its 'international' and 'Paris' bases into a single office in Paris last year. | 12yrs

An increasing number of top UK firms look set to cut unprofitable services in the coming year. | 12yrs

The Malaysian Bar has warned local families to be careful about using US law firms over the missing flight MH370 and has threatened the firms with legal action if they break a ban on foreign lawyers giving advice. | 12yrs

Jeff Orr, CEO of IT and cloud services at Stack Group, said law firms' fears about the risks of cloud technology are unfounded. | 12yrs

Bank of America has reported a quarterly loss of US$276m and was pushed into the red by legal costs including US$3.6b over mortgage-backed securities. | 12yrs

The US national mortgage administrator is facing a raft of legal issues including the departure of its chief legal officer. | 12yrs

Comparison websites could be set for a boost in the UK legal marketplace thanks to an initiative from the regulator. | 12yrs

Irene Shannon, onetime CFO of defunct firm Rothstein Rosenfeld Adler in South Florida, is facing a conspiracy charge relating to a Ponzi scheme which has seen her former boss go to prison for 50 years. | 12yrs

Newly-launched Toronto law firm Conduit Law, which includes Cisco Systems as one of its first clients, is offering a no-frills low cost service based around fixed fees and minimal overheads. | 12yrs

A Californian judge has allowed a claimant to sue LinkedIn over its paid for service. | 12yrs

China is introducing major changes for the first time in 25 years to its environmental protection laws. | 12yrs

Litigation spending has risen once again as 71 per cent of US companies report an average spend of $1 million or more. | 12yrs

US law firm Brown Rudnick is rescinding offers to 10 associates who were scheduled to join the firm in the fall in New York and Boston offices. | 12yrs

Facebook has revealed that UK law enforcement agencies made more 1,900 requests for data within a six month period. | 12yrs

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