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

Insurance company Direct Line Group is to enter the legal world, taking advantage of the alternative business structure arrangements in the UK. | 13yrs

Lawyers contribute least of all professions to society and their public perception is getting worse, according to a new US poll. | 13yrs

Portugal's Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados has made its latest foray into Africa - joining forces with Cameroon's Abeng Law Firm. | 13yrs

New York law firms are the highest billers in the US whilst real estate rates lawyers enjoyed the biggest pay increases, according to billing information released by a legal procurement company. | 13yrs

Eversheds is looking to launch an office in Turkey and is in talks with Istanbul firm Gur. | 13yrs

BP is challenging payouts to US law firms which have won large compensation awards in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. | 13yrs

Japanese bar associations have come to the rescue of young Japanese lawyers unable to find a job following changes in the law opening up the profession. | 13yrs

Private shipping companies could be increasingly caught in the middle as they seek to rescue refugees in dangerous boats. | 13yrs

Lawyers from Belarus and Italy are co-operating on family law and individual rights under an agreement signed by the National Bar Association of Belarus and Italy's Studio Legale. | 13yrs

China has recently launched three separate anti-trust investigations into foreign companies, prompting speculation that the moves are part of a pattern. | 13yrs

Germany is upping the stakes on piracy whilst France has changed direction. | 13yrs

Hogan Lovells has been cleared by the Brazilian Bar Association to start operating from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. | 13yrs

Western governments are under pressure to take a tough stance with Russia over the case of the dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who has just been condemned for tax evasion. | 13yrs

International law firms should find out within a couple of months if they will be able to practice in China through their Hong Kong offices. | 13yrs

GlaxoSmithKline's legal counsel in China is under house arrest and constant surveillance, following accusations against the company of bribery and evasion of the tax laws. | 13yrs

Thai business leaders are calling on the government to take action which would lead to the country being dropped from the watch list of the Financial Action Task Force. | 13yrs

The allegations and debates surrounding corporate tax avoidance have flared up once more in the light of German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble's comments on the Patent Box tax break scheme. | 13yrs

Clifford Chance and DLA Piper are both working on plans to expand and deepen their coverage of Africa. | 13yrs