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Washington DC-headquartered law firm Jones Day has been ranked as the top global dealmaker for Q1 2013 in the Thomson Reuters Mid-Market and Small-Cap M&A Reviews. | 13yrs

South Dakota has become the first US state to reimburse lawyers for their law school tuition in an attempt to attract legal professionals away from their city hubs and into rural America. | 13yrs

Major Singapore law firm WongPartnership has shaken up its management structure with the appointment of two joint managing partners. | 13yrs

Investigations by the European Commission have found that Google's search results are skewed in favour of its own services, just as Google prepares submit its final list of concessions this week. | 13yrs

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

A media lawyer has lost an appeal that she was unjustly dismissed from the legal team at US cable TV giant Discovery Communications because of a sleeping disorder. | 13yrs

London law firm Bird & Bird has snapped up former Virgin Atlantic counsel Leo Fattorini to head its Asia aviation practice. | 13yrs

Two legal executives from American firearms manufacturer Colt have filed wrongful discharge lawsuits against the Connecticut-headquartered company. | 13yrs

Luxury companies are reporting an increase in the breadth and depth of legal issues engulfing the sector, according to research carried out for the Luxury Law Summit 2013. | 13yrs

Deliberations have begun in a crucial Las Vegas trial which could see Nevada's largest health management company and another provider handed monumental punitive damages following the worst US outbreak of hepatitis C. | 13yrs

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has announced that its exclusive association with Saudi firm Al-Ghazzawi Professional Association (GPA) will end on 1 August. | 13yrs

Lawyers representing Texas oil and gas giant ExxonMobil have taken a swing at the State of New Hampshire during a landmark $263 million product liability trial over the gasoline additive MTBE. | 13yrs

Security services have told the UK's largest law firms that 'urgent action' must be taken to avoid damage from cyber attacks. | 13yrs

The US Senate has confirmed Mary Jo White as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission by unanimous consent yesterday, stating that she will succeed Mary Schapiro as a 'strong leader' in financial regulation. | 13yrs

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

London-headquartered law firm Olswang has re-elected David Stewart as Chief Executive Officer for a second three-year term, the firm today announced. | 13yrs

A series of mega-deals failed to spark Q1 2013 into action in what turned out to be the slowest opening quarter in ten years. | 13yrs

The trustee of bankrupt Washington DC law firm Howrey has reached a settlement with one of the firm's insurance carriers while continuing to thrash out negotiations with 50 other law firms in an effort to recover millions of dollars. | 13yrs

Several major US copyright holders have sent Californian search engine Google requests to remove notifications of their own takedown requests, complaining that their publication serves as a major directory for pirate content. | 13yrs