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A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen. | 13yrs

The Mandela family is becoming embroiled in legal action as the former South African president remains in hospital in a critical condition. | 13yrs

Hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia have been given a last minute reprieve against threatened deportation. The move came hours before new laws were meant to come into place on 3 July. | 13yrs

NHS guidance for investigating complaints from patients has been declared 'confusing' and 'unlawful' by campaigners and their lawyers, as threats of a legal challenge build against Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. | 13yrs

Australia may need to reconsider its policies on data sovereignity, a recent report by law firm Baker & McKenzie and the University of New South Wales says. | 13yrs

An ex-FBI director has been selected to look into suspected fake compensation claims issued against BP following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. | 13yrs

A US appeals court has struck a blow to authors aiming to derail plans by tech giant Google to create a digital library, ruling that they should not be able to sue as a group. | 13yrs

Following demands by the UK Parliament, police are now looking into claims that law firms and blue chip companies may have been involved in phone hacking and illegal privacy breaches by creating a list of those with possible connections. | 13yrs

Chief legal officers at medical-device and pharmaceutical companies are scoring high in the salary rankings, according to a recently released report. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs

General Electric has trimmed back on its European legal panel in a move led by the company's internal procurement team. | 13yrs

Leading UK insurance group Direct Line is preparing to make 'sizeable' cuts to its legal department as part of a larger plan which may see 2,000 of the group's staff made redundant. | 13yrs

Nigeria's Chief Justice has given a stinging assessment of the legal profession in the country after admitting that a lack of transparency, integrity and accountability are all key factors responsible for the increase of corruption. | 13yrs

Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline's Chinese offices have been raided by police after an anonymous whistleblower accused sales staff of bribery, according to reports. | 13yrs

A dispute over a conflict of interest in a high-profile lawsuit against 3M has resulted in Washington DC-based law firm Covington & Burling being disqualified from representing the state. | 13yrs

The UK's new Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act will grant legal protection to employees holding extreme political views, according to commercial law firm EMW. | 13yrs

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is facing allegations claiming that he didn't pay a businesswoman her fair share in a $120 million private plane deal which also involved late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. | 13yrs

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

Global law firm Baker & McKenzie today announced the election of 71 new partners across the firm worldwide, taking its total partner headcount to almost 1,500. | 13yrs