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Google looks set to avoid a long legal battle with the EU as it comes closer to an agreement with the EU Commission on its search procedures. | 13yrs

The role of General Counsel has been transformed in the last decade and will change further with education a main issue, according to a leading Canadian in-house lawyer. | 13yrs

Eversheds is launching a new Africa strategy which will include establishing offices in Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya. | 13yrs

JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are being held up as organisations which have wisely split the role of General Counsel into two posts. | 13yrs

Turkey's telecoms market is a complicated one at the moment - but it is only a matter of time before it flourishes again. | 13yrs

BT is considering its legal outsourcing arrangements and has launched a review of its current suppliers. | 13yrs

The School of Law at the University of Dayton is launching a Cyber Law Center under the leadership of Professor Susan Brenner. | 13yrs

Canada's largest telecoms company, BCE, is seeking to take the government to judicial review over measures the Ottowa parliament has taken to encourage new players. | 13yrs

Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has launched a consultation on the proposed takeover of OpenNet, a licence-holder to run a new broadband network. | 13yrs

Entity-based regulation means stormy weather ahead for law firms, says George Bull of Baker Tilly | 13yrs

The largest Finnish law firm merger in several years has taken place to create Juridia Butzow. | 13yrs

The new American Bar Association (ABA) president has said that the US is 'years away' from copying the UK by introducing ABAs (Alternative Business Structures) which allow non-lawyers to enter the legal market. | 13yrs

Freshfields has been replaced by Linklaters as advisor to Lloyds Bank in one of the most damaging scandals, the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI), that the bank has faced in the UK. | 13yrs

Canadian law firm insurer LawPRO is limiting payouts related to cybercrime to Can $250,000 in 201 | 13yrs

Singapore's attractiveness through its legal rules continues to grow - with the latest addition being the announcement of business-friendly proposals on data protection. | 13yrs

The Judicial Appointments Commission in Malaysia appears to have appointed seven new judges without consulting the Bar Council. | 13yrs

With recent openings in Germany, the US and Greece, Indian law firms are spreading their wings to follow their clients abroad. | 13yrs

Neelie Kroes, the EU's digital agenda commissioner, is on a mission to create a single telecoms market. | 13yrs

Managing data is one of the biggest challenges for corporate legal departments, says Recommind's Dean Gonsowski. | 13yrs