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The 18th US-China Legal Exchange is taking place this week with leading Chinese government lawyers and officials making presentations in the US on business law and the energy sector. | 12yrs

Kevyn Orr, now manager of Detroit city, has won a crucial ruling in the court when a judge agreed with the former Jones Day partner's view that the city was bankrupt and eligible for Chapter 11 protection. | 12yrs

Eversheds has strengthened its position on the continent, opening up in four more locations through links with South African and Tunisian law firms. | 12yrs

Support for a merger with UK-based Pinsent Masons was under 50 per cent among the partners in Australian law firm Maddocks, so blocking the quick tie-up which the London-based firm wanted. | 12yrs

Stephen Lloyd, global head of Ashurst, has stood down from the Ashursts partnership and looks likely to join Allen & Overy. | 12yrs

IBM has become the latest western multinational to become embroiled in a dispute with the Indian authorities over the amount it owes them. | 12yrs

A total of 141 UK law firms have until the end of December to find professional indemnity insurance or to face the risk of being shut down. | 12yrs

A team of 13 fee earners has left Herbert Geer and started work at the Brisbane office of Colin Biggers & Paisley this week. | 12yrs

As trouble brews in the Ukraine, the German law firm has closed up shop with its team heading over to Gide. | 12yrs

The Dewey & LeBoeuf saga continues as the bankruptcy trustee sues the former executive director and CFO. | 12yrs

Criminal barristers are holding their first ever strike as legal aid cuts means they cannot pay their mortgages. | 12yrs

Arseniy Yatseniuk, a lawyer and economist, is one of four men vying to take the lead in the Ukrainian parties opposing president Viktor Yanukovich. | 12yrs

New York top tier law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore is to give its associates the same level of year end bonus in 2013 as it did last year. | 12yrs

The University of Toronto's law student newspaper has reported a 21 per cent fall in recruitment of its graduates by the leading law firms. | 12yrs

UK-based Pinsent Masons is planning an Australia launch in March 2014 and has recruited the CEO of law firm Maddocks to begin the process. | 12yrs

Some Dutch Internet providers and other telecoms companies have broken laws enshrined in the European Data Retention Directive but have gone unpunished. | 12yrs

The Kentucky Bar Association has set up a task force to examine the issue of lawyers - often suffering from depression - suddenly abandoning their practices and leaving clients in the lurch. | 12yrs

Too many law firms and legal departments are reluctant to major root and branch changes. | 12yrs

Regulators in the US are increasing their surveillance of private equity firms and other players in the alternative investment sector, according to specialist lawyers. | 12yrs