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The integration of the new telecommunications regulator will have a massive impact on the sector, says Federico Hernandez Arroyo. | 13yrs

Three lawyers from Chadbourne & Parke in London are due to join Andrews Kurth, the Texas law firm which specialises in oil and gas. | 13yrs

A Clifford Chance trainee is facing disciplinary proceedings after he appeared on a student website describing his work as 'f***ing people over for money'. | 13yrs

Over 20 law firms have to wait until 8 October to see if their names will be published in relation to the UK hacking inquiry - after another delay. | 13yrs

An Urdu law dictionary, the first of its kind in India, the 'Kanoon Lugat' with 52,000 terms, has just been published. | 13yrs

The World Bank has blacklisted four times as many organisations and individuals in the first seven months of 2013 as it did in all of 2013. | 13yrs

With law school applications down over 12 per cent this year, many law classes will be notably emptier than in 2012. | 13yrs

General counsel are still given the main responsibility in selecting external law firms, according to the General Counsel Excellence Report 2013. | 13yrs

Lawyers for the EU finance ministers say that the EU banking union could be achieved without going through the lengthy legal process that Germany has suggested. | 13yrs

Weil, Gotshal & Manges is one of the leading professional firms that has benefited from a US$ 3 billion fee bill that has been paid in relation to the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008. | 13yrs

Senior lawyers are seeing lower pay rises than junior ones when going in-house - with some, at the top end, even taking pay cuts. | 13yrs

The former deputy general counsel of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has sued her former employer and claimed that its general counsel defamed her. | 13yrs

Ralph E Lerner, one of the top New York art lawyers, has been accused of charging unauthorised fees and hiding them from fellow members of the board of artist Cy Twombly. | 13yrs

The lawyer who got Martin Luther King out of jail and who worked alongside him for equal rights has died. | 13yrs

A House special investigative committee is expecting to spend up to US$3 million in the investigation of corruption charges against the Attorney General of Utah. | 13yrs

The parliament in Grenada has introduced a law on press freedom which gives a maximum penalty of a year in jail for people sending 'offensive' emails, tweets or other internet messages. | 13yrs

Corporate counsel are playing a more active role in the commercial strategy of their companies than ever before. | 13yrs

A team of energy lawyers have defected from the Paris office of Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) to join King & Spalding, significantly expanding the firm's energy practice in Europe and Africa. | 13yrs

Two Mayer Brown litigation partners have set up a specialist Paris practice with white collar and crime specialisms. | 13yrs