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Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law has confirmed it has established a partnership with the Dubai Judicial Institute (DJI), following hot on the heels of last month's announcement that Harvard Law School will work in Qatar. | 14yrs

Controversial Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky is to drop a four-year dispute with the estate of his former business partner, less than a month after losing one of the largest civil law suits ever seen in UK courts. | 14yrs

Iberian law firm Cuatrecasas Goncalves Pereira has changed its management structure following an internal review. | 14yrs

Summer associates at major US law firms are asking to be given more work - rather than more social events - in order to demonstrate their skills and lower their worries about the future, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

London law firms Allen & Overy and Simmons and Simmons have both been involved in a deal which will see India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) acquire a stake in an Azerbaijan oil field. | 14yrs

Potential negotiations to resolve the decades-long Colombian civil war have done little to subdue the threats facing human rights lawyers in the area. | 14yrs

London-based magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to reopen its doors in Singapore five years after bailing out of the country. | 14yrs

Three global law firms have reported differing outcomes in their autumn retention rates as contrasting strategies come into force. | 14yrs

Anglo-US firm DLA Piper has emerged as one of President Barack Obama's biggest backers in an election heavily supported by law firms and lawyers. | 14yrs

A court battle has erupted in Louisiana over the appointment of a black state supreme court justice as the next chief justice. | 14yrs

New York-based law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has appointed veteran restructuring and insolvency lawyer Yushan Ng to its London office. | 14yrs

English law firms Dickson Dees and Bond Pearce have confirmed they have entered discussions over a merger which could create a firm with revenues of more than £90 million - putting it into the UK top 40. | 14yrs

Independent French firm Stehlin & Associes has announced a new international strategy after declining to merge with UK firm Osborne Clarke earlier this year. | 14yrs

Irish property developer Paddy McKillen will be hit with a legal bill of up to €25.5 million (£20.45m) after his legal action against the Barclay brothers over the ownership of three London hotels failed. | 14yrs

More than half of US divorce lawyers claim that postnuptial agreements have risen in the last three years, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

US electric utilities giant Pepco Holdings has announced the appointment of Kevin Fitzgerald as executive vice president and general counsel of the company and its utility subsidiaries. | 14yrs

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has selected its first panel of external legal advisors with six law firms making the cut. | 14yrs

Corporate legal departments have increased their use of requests for proposal from in-house law departments, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

Online retailer Amazon has joined the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple by hiring a high-profile privacy lawyer. | 14yrs