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Neelie Kroes, the EU's digital agenda commissioner, is on a mission to create a single telecoms market. | 12yrs

Managing data is one of the biggest challenges for corporate legal departments, says Recommind's Dean Gonsowski. | 12yrs

Lawyers lack the right connections and commercial nous for board positions in corporates, say FTSE Chairmen. | 12yrs

The Federal Trade Commission in the US is beginning an investigation into patent trolls and could proceed to introduce new regulations or tougher enforcement. | 12yrs

Leading Australian law firms which have recently frozen their pay are likely to unfreeze it under the new government, according to a consultant. | 12yrs

The Irish Supreme Court has trespassed into the area of law-making, according to a book published this month by a well-known Dublin solicitor. | 12yrs

Former Jones Day partner Kevyn Orr, now the emergency manager of the bankrupt city of Detroit, has been accused of making 'lucrative contract amendments' to the deal with Jones Day without disclosing them to the City Clerk. | 12yrs

A World Trade Organisation and World Bank collaboration is behind a new project which will provide a Swiss-Indian link-up to train LLM students on trade and and investment. | 12yrs

High net worth individuals continue to see offshore trusts as one of the best ways of holding their assets. | 12yrs

Clifford Chance is to offer what it says will be Magic Circle standards of training to associates in local African firms with which it has a relationship. | 12yrs

JP Morgan's General Counsel Stephen Cutler and Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell have made up a trio with chief executive Jamie Dimon in talks to agree a settlement on the bank's regulatory fines. | 12yrs

Another six or so people may face charges in the UK in October on the Libor-fixing scandal, according to lawyers close to the case. | 12yrs

Ashurst in Australia and Ashurst LLP are to start operating from a single profit pool as of 1 November. | 12yrs

Wilson Sonsini is cutting about 35 secretarial positions, mostly in its Silicon Valley office at Palo Alto. | 12yrs

General counsel need to find ways of assessing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to help them measure what they do and what value they create. | 12yrs

Foreigners make up the majority of parties to cases in London's Commercial Court, according to Hogan Lovells. | 12yrs

The Philadelphia Bar Association has ruled that a law firm can look at the emails sent to an ex-partner. | 12yrs

Just over half (51 per cent) of private client lawyers expect to see more use of corporate structures in future, as an alternative to traditional trusts. | 12yrs

Small and medium-sized UK, Australian and New Zealand law firms are being offered pricing data which will show them what their competitors are charging. | 12yrs