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Leading Iberian law firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has opened a New York office in a move the partners maintain reinforces its commitment to the international market. | 13yrs

US law firm heavy hitters are in the front line in negotiations over Argentina's national debt, triggering questions about the role of American finance's involvement in foreign affairs. | 13yrs

A British student has dodged facing trial and possibly imprisonment in the US after striking a deal to avoid extradition. | 13yrs

General counsel answer our big question | 13yrs

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 13yrs

Law school enrolment in the US has plummeted by 15 per cent since 2010 and 9 per cent since last year, according to recent figures from the American Bar Association (ABA). | 13yrs

Four men have filed a civil suit against a New Jersey group that claims to convert homosexual men to heterosexuality. | 13yrs

Owners of a British marketing company that overwhelmed the public with millions of unlawful text messages have been fined £440,000 by regulators. | 13yrs

Leading global lawyers have called on Egypt's new president to drop proposals to give his office unfettered powers and to respect international rule-of-law standards. | 13yrs

An investigation is to be launched into allegations that ethnic minority lawyers in England are treated less fairly by the profession's regulator than white counterparts. | 13yrs

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

The Sri Lankan Bar Association has taken action against the speaker of the parliament and an 11-member select committee in opposition to an investigation into Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake involving allegations of abuse of power. | 13yrs

Australian consumer law actions over privacy breaches will be a bonanza for the country's legal profession, predicts a specialist lawyer who claims the jurisdiction will follow a similar litigation route to that of several US states. | 13yrs

Court proceedings in Jaipur were disrupted yesterday by a group of high court lawyers who prevented advocates from entering the premises in response to the alleged beating of two of their colleagues. | 13yrs

Leading London law firms are increasingly moving towards pure performance and merit-based pay packages for their associates as hard economic conditions continue to impact on the UK capital's legal profession. | 13yrs

Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has launched legal action against Samsung, claiming that some of the South Korean manufacturer's essential components infringe patents. | 13yrs

Federal government moves to dole out prison sentences at odds with watchdog's leniency programme, say lawyers | 13yrs

Last year's reform of US patent laws has failed to reduce the volume of legal action as intended, with a recent survey revealing that specialist law firms are as busy as ever. | 13yrs

Two former Penn State administrators have moved to bar testimony from the university's former general counsel at a preliminary hearing on charges stemming from the child sexual abuse scandal involving football coach Jerry Sandusky. | 13yrs