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A new study from the US Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform accused plaintiff lawyers of extracting millions of dollars a year in fees at the expense of company shareholders by challenging mergers in state and federal courts. | 14yrs

The in-house lawyer of a mining company has been prevented from leaving Mongolia after being detained at the airport last week. | 14yrs

More women could bring compensation claims for equal pay following a ground-breaking ruling by the UK's Supreme Court. | 14yrs

The judge presiding over a bias discrimination case called a mistrial after a jury failed to reach a decision on Wednesday over whether the plaintiff's 14th Amendment rights were violated. | 14yrs

The Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) UK legal panel has been trimmed down by 40 per cent, with a new roster of between 55 and 60 firms after the first review of its legal team since 2009. | 14yrs

The Anjie law firm is launching next month in Beijing headed by 12 senior lawyers from eight of China's top law firms. | 14yrs

Companies that operate both in the United States and in European Union Member States, such as France, often grapple with tensions between FCPA compliance and enforcement of European Union and local country data privacy protections. | 14yrs

A Californian law firm allegedly accepted a $6 million 'secret settlement' in a labour-related class action against a bank, and then agreed to dismiss its claims without telling 600 clients. | 14yrs

Leaders of top US law firms have overwhelmingly backed incumbent President Barack Obama to secure another term at the White House, seeing off the challenge of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. | 14yrs

Trinidad & Tobago's former attorney general has waded into the debate over the independence of the legal profession in the jurisdiction by calling for a Commission of Enquiry to investigate what he described as a 'dog-eat-dog fight'. | 14yrs

Concerns over training reforms in Canada have reached new heights, with one member of a Law Society task force admitting 'it's time to move on with a different process'. | 14yrs

The size of the legal profession in the Australian state of Queensland has shrunk, just weeks after the state backed out of national legal reforms. | 14yrs

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Rebus Investment Solutions and Spirit AeroSystems all install new GCs in this week's round-up | 14yrs

Plans to require major European businesses to have boardrooms of at least 40 per cent women have been postponed. | 14yrs

British building society Nationwide will be launching a review of its legal panel in early 2013, the first since the panel's launch in July 2009. | 14yrs

Several leading US law schools are taking measures to give experience-based learning for future in-house counsel. | 14yrs

A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global private practice | 14yrs

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has been labelled a 'hypocritical fraud' after taking legal action against a web site that published a sex-tape of the 'Hulkster' and the wife of his ex-friend Bubba 'The Love Sponge' Clem. | 14yrs

Britain's Chancellor is keen for employees to swap rights for shares in the businesses where they work. Simon Kerr-Davis explains why both workers and employers are cool on the idea | 14yrs