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French law firm August & Debouzy is to give full legal support for €200 a month to ten new start-ups in France. | 12yrs

Clyde & Co is the first international law firm to get approval to open up in south west China. | 12yrs

Rabobank has settled for US1.06 billion with regulators in the US, UK and the Netherlands, surprising many observers with the size of the payment. | 12yrs

Deutsche Bank has followed JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Lloyds in posting hefty legal provisions in its latest results. | 12yrs

UK-based Keystone Law is breaking into the Australian market by opening a Sydney office on 1 November. | 12yrs

General counsel should have a place on the senior management's response team if their company is subject to shareholder activism. | 12yrs

Microsoft associate General Counsel Annmarie Levin has stepped beyond the usual legal parameters to run a programme of discussions with government, business, academia and other players on technology issues. | 12yrs

A weekly round-up on in-house moves from around the globe | 12yrs

Chelsea Football Club is following in the steps of Manchester United and other top clubs by recruiting an in-house lawyer. | 12yrs

A study of 19 law firms in Dallas, including Jones Day, K&L Gates, Weil Gotshal and Norton Rose Fulbright - has found them all lacking on diversity measures regarding Hispanics, African-Americans and other minorities. | 12yrs

Some of the top Chinese law firms have been fined by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) - and one individual has been handed down a life ban on giving securities advice. | 12yrs

Nearly three quarters of respondents to a Lawyers Weekly poll in Australia believe that universities should 'reduce their intake of law students until the graduate market improves'. | 12yrs

The trial of three anti-corruption activists has been delayed with questions hanging over whether their lawyers will continue to defend them. | 12yrs

Greenberg Traurig is starting a scheme which will give a year-long second chance to law graduates who were not selected for its traditional programme. | 12yrs

A former Slaughter and May lawyer and her partner, formerly of Linklaters, lost their application to have proceedings for insider trading dismissed against them. | 12yrs

The New York law firm has taken advantage of new legislation to open two offices in Myanmar. | 12yrs

Squire Sanders and Salkom have formalised a 15-year relationship to create the first association deal between a Ukrainian and an international law firm. | 12yrs

The Virginia Supreme Court has held that a lawyer's blog can be subject to the advertising clauses in professional conduct rules. | 12yrs

A large firm of Chinese money managers, the China Jiantou Trust, has sent 23 executives to London to be trained in the legal and regulatory environment as well as other financial issues. | 12yrs