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

Lawyers and police have clashed in violent outbursts in two Indian cities following two separate incidents in the country. | 13yrs

The representative body of lawyers in England and Wales has joined criticism of the Legal Services Board (LSB) by slating proposals to use compulsory diversity surveys on firms. | 13yrs

London magic circle firm Clifford Chance is set to integrate with ally Saudi firm Al-Jadaan, becoming the first international law firm to set up a mixed local and foreign lawyer partnership in the region. | 13yrs

US technology giant Microsoft is set to be heavily punished by European regulators after breaking an antitrust promise, with reports suggesting a fine running into hundreds of millions of dollars. | 13yrs

Chicago law firm Winston & Strawn has announced plans to open a Brussels office by June this year, which will become the firm's sixteenth office globally and fifth in Europe. | 13yrs

Audrey Anderson has become the new general counsel at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, arriving from the US Department of Homeland Security. | 13yrs

An Indian company can sell a generic version of Bayer AG's cancer drug Nexavar, an appeals court in the country has ruled, potentially leaving global pharmaceutical firms open to similar rulings. | 13yrs

Heathrow Airport Holdings' legal panel review has seen two new firms land positions, with London law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Scottish outfit Morton Fraser flying in to provide advice. | 13yrs

Three more file-sharing web sites have been blocked by UK internet service providers (ISPs), while across the Atlantic an alert system to combat online content theft was launched last week by five leading US ISPs. | 13yrs

With our lives increasingly ruled by technology, is it any surprise that search engines are telling us what to look for, rather than the other way around? Search engine creator Gabriel Weinberg tells James Barnes how things should be different | 13yrs

Abolishing the billable hours structure will do nothing to address the high rate of depression in the legal profession, a survey of managing partners at Australian law firms has found. | 13yrs

Lawyers attempting to challenge the new fixed costs structure for personal injury claims had their requests rejected by the High Court in London yesterday. | 13yrs

British Government plans to change laws protecting outsourced workers' rights could inadvertently cause more problems than they solve, a top employment lawyer has warned. | 13yrs

A judge in California has ordered a 40 per cent cut to the $1 billion in damages awarded to Cupertino-based tech company Apple from its South Korean rival Samsung. | 13yrs

Dallas-based law firm Haynes and Boone will today unveil a cooperation agreement with Rio de Janeiro's MMA Lawyers. | 13yrs

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

Cheeky bookmaker Paddy Power sets the onion challenge for a famous Chelsea footballer and refuses to play ball with image rights. | 13yrs

Malaysia is making moves to liberalise its legal marketplace, following in the footsteps of Singapore and South Korea. | 13yrs