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King & Wood Mallesons and SJ Berwin will know in just under a week if their partners have voted to approve their global merger. | 13yrs

The general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence has defended the National Security Agency's controversial data-gathering programme. | 13yrs

Over 50 legal experts in Russia have joined forces to write an open letter warning that the Russian constitution is 'under threat'. | 13yrs

International law firm and lobbyist Patton Boggs is preparing to make changes to its partner compensation following a series of exits from the firm. | 13yrs

Pentair Flow Control has appointed international law firm Eversheds as its legal adviser on a two-year multimillion-pound contract oversee its routine legal work in the EMEA region. | 13yrs

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

Western pharmaceuticals companies have launched reviews of their links with a Chinese travel agency which is at the heart of corruptions allegations levelled at GlaxoSmithKline. | 13yrs

The US's Commodity Futures Trading Commission has used new powers under the Dodd-Frank Act to issue a $2.8 million fine for ultra-fast trading or spoofing, as it is known in the US. | 13yrs

UBS has settled with a US regulator over claims that it mis-sold mortgage-backed investments between 2004 and 2007. | 13yrs

UK law firm Osborne Clarke has opened a new office in Paris. | 13yrs

Using Taobao to help with IP enforcement is the way forward, says Paolo Beconcini | 13yrs

Africa has become a significant investment destination for global businesses seeking M&A opportunities, according to new figures by international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. | 13yrs

BP has received another setback in its aims to limit compensation payments relating to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill at Deepwater Horizon. | 13yrs

Thousands of US companies - including Google and Facebook - look set to find that their freedom to use 'safe harbour' rules to escape EU data protection rules is reduced in future. | 13yrs

Lawyers are urging a boycott of November's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka because of a lack of judicial independence in the country. | 13yrs

Jones Day is on its way to creating a template for municipal bankruptcy in the US. | 13yrs

Paul Hastings is the best firm to work for in the US, according to Vault.com. | 13yrs

UK lawyers have just three weeks to respond to a UK government review which may see major changes to the tax advantages of limited liability partnerships. | 13yrs

Law graduates earn an average one million dollars more in their life than those with just a bachelor's degree, according to two American academics. | 13yrs