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A weekly round-up on in-house moves from around the globe | 13yrs

The 30,000-strong Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has appointed a specialist data management company, Modus, as its premier e-discovery alliance partner. | 13yrs

Blogging can be up there with responsiveness and price as a major differential between law firms, according to a legal marketing specialist. | 13yrs

A masterclass for partners will look at other professional services firms to gain insights into their methodology for business development. | 13yrs

French firm Gide is on the attack picking up a large team from the US law firm. | 13yrs

Silicon Valley-based 700-lawyer firm Cooley is taking on 54 lawyers from Dow Lohnes to become a Top 30 Washington firm. | 13yrs

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Mary Jo White has raised the prospect that companies could be required to send less information to investors who may be struggling with 'information overload'. | 13yrs

The British High Commissioner to Zambia, James Thornton, has said that there is 'no point' in judges continuing to wear wigs and robes. | 13yrs

The economic upturn has increased demand for lawyers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) but salaries are staying fairly flat. | 13yrs

Raff & Becker has earned millions of dollars of fees for an appointment that was expected to last three years in 1983 but is now into its fourth decade. | 13yrs

Brian S Lichter has been appointed a partner in the Davis Polk & Wardwell real estate team, having transferred over from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. | 13yrs

London is bracing itself for the American Bar Association's arrival. | 13yrs

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is selling some of its assets and will focus more on its legal and regulatory side. | 13yrs

The new law firm Pennington Manches now has seven offices in London and the home counties, and a combined turnover of £58m. | 13yrs

Argentina accounts for more than 11 per cent of disputes being heard at the World's Bank tribunal, the International Court for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. | 13yrs

US firm Sander Squires has created a health law fellowship programme as a result of changes in the US health care system and a shortage of healthcare lawyers. | 13yrs

Premium brand law firms are losing their attraction for large legal departments which are increasingly likely to defect. | 13yrs

One of the top legal names in US sport, Jim Tanner of Williams & Connolly, is leaving the Washington-based firm to set up his own firm to start his own specialist sport and entertainment management practice. | 13yrs

The largest bank in the US, JP Morgan Chase, has set aside US$23 billion in its legal reserve and shown a quarterly loss for the first time in nine years. | 13yrs