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Legal team at Britain's railways kicks off panel pitching round, and new GCs for the Asia Development Bank, Middle East and Spanish media groups and a Colorado technology company | 13yrs

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

The head of the US's financial watchdog is to stand down next month, with speculation over her replacement already mounting. | 13yrs

Two thirds of all FTSE100 British High Court cases this year involved the financial services sector, with the 'big four' high street banks accounting for nearly half of all trials, according to research released yesterday. | 13yrs

London headquartered law firm Ashurst has taken second place outright from rival Linklaters in a ranking of legal practices by number of FTSE250 clients. | 13yrs

Law firm failures to combat potential risks in sending confidential information in unsecured e-mails has been described as 'madness' by leading digital communications experts. | 13yrs

Indian lawyers practising overseas increased pressure on professional regulators back home yesterday to loosen strict protectionist rules preventing foreign law firms from operating in the country. | 13yrs

A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there | 13yrs

Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough ride, with high-profile fraud, tenacious foreign taxmen and beefed up domestic regulation all bearing down. But headaches for bankers mean boom times for local lawyers | 13yrs

The Israeli government could face multiple court cases and a huge compensation bill following its recent eight-day fight with Hamas and other forces in Gaza, according to legal commentators in the battle-torn region. | 13yrs

English and US global law firms may be tripping over each other in a bid to exploit recently liberalised legal markets in East Asia, but the path to commercial success could be littered with human rights potholes, campaigners warned last week. | 13yrs

British regulators today slapped Switzerland's biggest bank with a £30 million fine following the fraud conviction of a rogue trader last week. | 13yrs

A group of Europe's most influential and muscular independent law firms is forming an alliance to challenge the power and continuing incursions of UK and US firms on the continent. | 13yrs

Bankrupt New York law firm wraps up a Thanksgiving gift for its creditors, but retired partners think the deal is a turkey | 13yrs

British ministers granted Europe's biggest law school university status yesterday, in a move the academics hope will boost the institution's marketability in the booming Far East markets. | 13yrs

Vast differences in remuneration rates in the Indian legal profession were exposed earlier this week by a survey highlighting large gaps between the top commercial law firms and the rest of the sector. | 13yrs

England's most establishment law firm joined two other practices claiming to be leading innovators at the top of a client satisfaction survey released today. | 13yrs

Lazy or indifferent lawyers are costing their own legal practices millions annually and are damaging the wider environment by ignoring easily implemented green policies, researchers claimed today. | 13yrs

Ex-US Marine lieutenant general and lawyer Michael Mori is to challenge an Australian government decision to extradite former Serb paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic for war crimes. | 13yrs