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Doctors, engineers and lawyers rank amongst the unhappiest workers in Malaysia, feeling held back by a lack of prospects. | 12yrs

As well as deciding important cases on voting rights, the financing of politics and women's rights, the top US courts will also seek to decide on whether the National Security Agency (NSA) can lawfully monitor bulk telephone use data. | 12yrs

Vodafone lawyers are considering taking legal action in Egypt against people who are 'trying to distort the company's reputation' after it was accused of transmitting messages about a planned terror attack in an advertisement. | 12yrs

Many LLPs have recently published falls in profits in their recent accounts but Berwin Leighton Paisner's 223% rise in borrowings is one of the most notable figures. | 12yrs

The Bar Council of India has written to the ministry of finance requesting that lawyers be allowed to join chartered accountants in signing tax audit reports and certificates. | 12yrs

Corruption investigations into the Turkish government have been used for their own purposes by parts of the prosecution service and police, according a leading government minister. | 12yrs

High Court cases against the FTSE 100 are averaged 2 per company last year, up 76% on the 1.14 average of the previous year. | 12yrs

The solicitor whose breach of confidentiality over client JK Rowling led to her being outed as the author of a crime story has been fined £1,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). | 12yrs

Lynne Stewart, convicted in 2005 for helping a client smuggle messages out of prison to a terrorist organisation, has been released from jail early because she is dying of cancer. | 12yrs

Steven Davis, blamed by some of his Dewey & LeBoeuf colleagues for mismanaging finances at the now defunct firm, has become the top legal advisor to the one of the United Arab Emirates governments. | 12yrs

There is a growing cadre of lawyers who do nothing but outsourced document review for rates as low as US$25-30 an hour. | 12yrs

Dr Daniel Sokol, honorary senior lecturer in medical ethics and law who offered a legal appeals service against exam results, has had his employment contract terminated by King's College London. | 12yrs

Toronto mayor Rob Ford - famous for admitting to taking crack in one of his 'drunken stupors' - has appointed a sole practitioner lawyer as one of his leading advisers. | 12yrs

Justice Todd Ducharme of the Ontario Superior Court is facing a complaint from EthicalOil.org after participating in an environmental mock trial. | 12yrs

Newly elected New York mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed former US Attorney Zachary Carter to the corporation counsel for the city. | 12yrs

Lawyer and IT specialist Somnath Bharti, chosen to hold the law brief in the newly-elected state government in Delhi, is promising to increase the numbers of judges and public prosecutors in order to speed up the criminal justice system. | 12yrs

While the last legal bills for the financial crisis are being submitted to banks, the peak has been reached on litigation and the sector is likely to make progress in 2014, according to the Financial Times. | 12yrs

A trial scheme will start on 6 January allowing parties to family law cases to hire lawyers for limited parts of proceedings. | 12yrs

A quarter of family law judges should be replaced in the 2 million population area that makes up Las Vegas and its surrounding county, according to a poll of lawyers. | 12yrs