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Internet giant Google has launched the first high-profile test of Russia's contentious firewall, taking legal action against the web blocker which has been lambasted for allowing the government to ban any web site it chooses. | 13yrs

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

A High Court judge in the Solomon Islands has warned lawyers in the jurisdiction that there will be consequences if they fail to turn up to court. | 13yrs

A damning investigation which claimed to find widespread doping in Australian sport as well as links to organised crime will lead to serious professional liability issues for sports organisations, a leading lawyer in the jurisdiction said yesterday. | 13yrs

London law firm Linklaters became the latest magic circle firm to reveal its March retention rates yesterday, announcing a rate of 83 per cent. | 13yrs

The fear of alienating prized clients since the recession is hindering US law firms in their attempts to implement much-needed succession plans, a leading legal consultant claimed yesterday. | 13yrs

The chief executive of Californian technology giant Apple yesterday shrugged off claims that the company does not know what to with its $137 billion cash pile, adding that a lawsuit filed by a shareholder is nothing more than a 'silly slideshow'. | 13yrs

Halebury scores the England football team while a US GC gets a promotion and another joins a gaming company. | 13yrs

Legal departments expect technology to play a much greater role in e-disclosure while many also forecast the costs involved to increase, a recent survey has revealed. | 13yrs

Leading in-house lawyers at Barclays are jockeying for position as the bank looks to appoint a new general counsel, with reports suggesting Michael Shaw and Judith Shepherd are the current frontrunners. | 13yrs

The American Bar Association's ethics commission is to tackle issues surrounding the registration of foreign in-house counsel, possibly amending the current model, the co-chair of the commission has said. | 13yrs

UK law firms are tasting success in their efforts to improve diversity and inclusion performance but there is still more work to be done, a report released today has concluded. | 13yrs

The Cambodian government and bar association should scale down their efforts to stop lawyers from speaking to the media without permission, a leading human rights organisation said yesterday. | 13yrs

New York-based law firm White & Case has blown away bleak reports of meagre profit increases to post a whopping 15 per cent increase in profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2012 financial year. | 13yrs

Britain's chief accountancy enforcer is set to investigate claims that Cambridge-founded software company Autonomy misrepresented its profitability before its £7 billion takeover by Hewlett-Packard in 2011. | 13yrs

Social networking platform Facebook is facing legal action over its 'like' button following a claim from a Dutch patent-holding company yesterday. | 13yrs

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

Queensland law firm McCullough Robertson has recruited a top Irish lawyer to chair its international group as it vows to defy Australian merger mania and build a holistic global practice. | 13yrs

Associated British Foods has today rejected allegations that it engaged in any illegal or immoral tax avoidance in Zambia, adding that it believes it has been 'wronged' through inaccurate accounts. | 13yrs