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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today announced that Minister Law Solicitors has been granted an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) licence. | 13yrs

Personal injury lawyers in Scotland have claimed that courts will not be able to cope with the deluge of cases expected to hit if government proposals are given the green light. | 13yrs

Stuart Fuller, the global head of Hong Kong-headquartered law firm King & Wood Mallesons, has rebuffed claims that a breakdown in personal relationships led to the departure of Australia managing partner Tony O'Malley. | 13yrs

Close to two-thirds of American parents hope that their children will pursue legal careers, a survey yesterday reported. | 13yrs

A Rio de Janeiro judge yesterday overturned an earlier ruling that sought to suspend a friendly football match between England and Brazil at the Maracana stadium due to the stadium being 'unsafe'. | 13yrs

A Glasgow lawyer has been jailed for three-and-a-half-years after being caught with 31kg of cannabis resin at his flat. | 13yrs

Reciprocal guidance on the enforcement of money judgments between the UAE and the UK is now in place, reports barrister Khadija S Ali. | 13yrs

President Barack Obama is reportedly set to turn to former deputy attorney general James Comey - a 2003 appointment by President George W Bush - to head the FBI. | 13yrs

Members of the legal profession have moved to highlight the dangers of privatising the court system following reports that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) may be planning to sell to the private sector. | 13yrs

Michigan-headquartered automotive giant Ford has forced a British village parts centre to hand over its website domain following a trans-Atlantic internet tussle. | 13yrs

Law firms are beginning to recognise the need to innovate in response to the Legal Services Act, with a quarter of law firms expecting to modify their business strategy, a report released today suggests. | 13yrs

Hundreds of lawyers have gathered in Karachi to stage a protest following the 'targeted killing' of senior lawyer Kausar Saqlain on Tuesday. | 13yrs

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

European competition regulators are 'almost 100 per cent' likely to ask Google to revise its proposals in an on-going antitrust tug-of-war. | 13yrs

London-headquartered publisher Penguin is set to pay out $75 million to settle a case in which it was accused of fixing the price of eBooks. | 13yrs

Ex-KPMG partner Scott London has agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of securities fraud after admitting he exchanged privileged information for cash and luxury items. | 13yrs

A lawyer representing eight of the 85 Afghan nationals held at Camp Bastion has slammed the 'secret facility' and compared it to the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. | 13yrs

Costa Rica-based digital currency firm Liberty Reserve has been accused of running a massive money laundering scheme which, according to US prosecutors, saw the company become the 'bank of choice for the criminal underworld'. | 13yrs

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