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A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice. | 13yrs

Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency, will try to get the US government to reveal more information on why it is the only ratings agency to be charged with fraud. | 13yrs

Allen & Overy in Australia may follow the example of the UK firm by reducing the numbers of graduates it takes on. | 13yrs

Most law firms are 'several years' behind the Big Four accountancy practices in their adoption of new technology. | 13yrs

A barrister from Illinois has had her licence to practice suspended for three years after admitting that she had not disclosed her past work as a prostitute. | 13yrs

A former lawyer is offering a radical leadership programme which promises transformation in management. | 13yrs

JP Morgan's legal provisions of US$6.8 billion in its accounts has knocked Bank of America off the top slot of US banks with expensive legal problems. | 13yrs

Leading Chinese law firm Dacheng has opened an office in Moscow, aiming to build up to a staffing level of 20 lawyers. | 13yrs

The long-awaited trial of Chinese politician Bo Xilai - whose wife was last year convicted of the murder of the Briton Neil Heywood - starts on Thursday, according to state media. | 13yrs

A federal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Seamus P McCaffery has extended to the investigators serving subpoenas on eight law firms. | 13yrs

Colourful French lawyer Jacques Verges, known as “the Devil's advocate” has died in Paris. | 13yrs

A New York court has dismissed a case against Chinese firm DeHeng Law offices and one of its former partners for the third time. | 13yrs

The going rate for Supreme Court clerks has soared with law firms fiercely competing for this rare breed of lawyer. | 13yrs

Lack of funding has seen legal proceedings stall in the investigation into the Marikana Massacre in South Africa a year after the disaster. | 13yrs

A recent Supreme Court patent decision avoided the absurd result of a defendant having to pay damages under a patent whose relevant claims were invalidated between trial on liability and on damages, says Susan Hall of UK law firm Clarke Willmott. | 13yrs

BP is back in court yet again over the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010 - this time trying to prevent investors in its shares from pursuing a class action lawsuit. | 13yrs

Competition experts in the US are expecting a gritty fight back from US Airways and its legal adviser O'Melveny & Myers after the Department of Justice said it will seek to block merger plans with American Airlines. | 13yrs

There is a thin line between business and personal communication when it comes to social media. Eugenie Nunes and Annemarie Roukema of Dutch law firm Boekel De Nerée discuss the implications for employers. | 13yrs

Gmail users should not expect privacy, the company has argued in a class action lawsuit. | 13yrs