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Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) will handle all legal matters at Thames Water for another four years. | 12yrs

Nearly half of US judges are using social media - with most of them on Facebook and a minority venturing onto LinkedIn, according to the Legal Talk Network. | 12yrs

Allen & Overy is top of the global rankings with US$94.9b of deals, according to a listing by Infrastructure Journal. | 12yrs

Texas law firm Mauze & Bagby faces a defamation claim over its search for clients in a proposed action against a national dental practice. | 12yrs

Recent trends to get better value for money are partly due to the arrival of a generation of more sophisticated in-house counsel, according to lawyers quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. | 12yrs

Two former DLA partners of DLA Piper are to launch a Miami office for 1,000-lawyer practice Bryan Cave. | 12yrs

A new service offering lawyers an upfront credit facility on fees has been launched in London. | 12yrs

The energy practice at a leading chambers was attacked last month as attackers set up links that visitors could have clicked on to link them to malware. | 12yrs

The University of Victoria in Australia is launching a new legal IT course in January, to prepare lawyers for a stream-lined approach to the law. | 12yrs

Philip Hyde joins the firm as a finance partner. | 12yrs

Five lawyers specialising in nuclear energy law have left the defunct Canadian practice of Heenan Blaikie to join Gowling Lafleur Henderson in Toronto and Qatar. | 12yrs

Portuguese practice PLMJ has established an office in Lausanne, reflecting both the interest of Portuguese clients to invest money there and the spread of Swiss-based companies abroad. | 12yrs

Leon Flavell, head of global services legal at accountancy Big Four giant PwC, is aiming to put the practice into the world's top 20 firms within the next five years. | 12yrs

A 30-year old lawyer from East Turkestan has died after being held by the authorities and, when released to her family, being unable to stand and being covered in 'wounds all over her body'. | 12yrs

BigLaw lawyers are less happy than their peers in public-service jobs whilst judges are the happiest of all lawyers. | 12yrs

The Malaysia Bar Association passed a resolution at its AGM, asking for retired judges to be barred from representing clients in court. | 12yrs

Local law firms dominate the Singapore legal marketplace unlike Hong Kong where foreign law firms run the show. | 12yrs

Fried Frank's longtime chair is leaving her post two years early but will remain in the firm in a managerial role. | 12yrs

The company is holding a VIP briefing session tomorrow on Axcelerate 5 and the future of e-discovery. | 12yrs