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Houston-headquartered law firm Baker Botts has extended the reach of its antitrust and competition offering with the opening of an office in Brussels. | 14yrs

Deutsche Bank has snapped up Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner Christof von Dryander as its general counsel for Germany and Central & Eastern Europe. | 14yrs

Female in-house counsel in Canada are making less money than their male colleagues and receiving lower salary increases, according to the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association. | 14yrs

The general counsel of the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has called for improvements in global co-operation to fight piracy. | 14yrs

Legal risk management is the number one challenge for companies, according to a survey of Australian corporate counsel. | 14yrs

California's state bar exam violates the US constitution, four lawyers and two citizens have claimed after disagreeing with the requirement that lawyers from other states must pass an exam. | 14yrs

A UK pilot version of a US lawyer-rating service is in the early stages of creation, with the aim of becoming a consumer-facing alternative to the Chambers directory. | 14yrs

London-based magic circle firm Slaughter and May has been busy advising Arsenal Football Club on a raft of deals in the transfer market, according to Legal Week. | 14yrs

Herbert Smith has lost a leading financial services expert to rival London law firm Linklaters. | 14yrs

The number of reported defamation court cases in the UK plummeted 15 per cent last year, according to a study released yesterday. | 14yrs

Indians are keen to become motorists, but the road to business success for GM the country is far from smooth. Jonathan Ames speaks to the company's general counsel about departmental structure and corporate liability | 14yrs

Politicians in the US and UK - especially President Barack Obama - claim to be keen on encouraging skilled business immigration to kick-start economic growth. But, argue David Grunblatt and Edward Wanambwa, the laws they must apply and the | 14yrs

Confusion continues to swirl around a recently-imposed tax on legal services in India that has already triggered strike action by local lawyers. | 14yrs

A lawyer who was set to represent Pope Benedict XVI's former butler has walked away from the brief after clashing with his client over differences in defence strategy. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse today opens a representative office in Silicon Valley as part of a US strategy aimed at attracting instructions from the heartland of the Californian technology scene. | 14yrs

Mid-level associates at some of America's top law firms are happier than they have been for years, despite layoffs, salary freezes and the loss of bonuses, researchers have found. | 14yrs

The global legal outsourcing market has crashed through the $1 billion mark and is booming at an annual growth rate of 32 per cent, a study released today claims. | 14yrs

The London High Court judge overseeing the battle between Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky has lambasted the 'heavily lawyered' approach to the case for undermining witness statements. | 14yrs

Russian companies want to list in London for a variety of reasons. But, ask Kate Ball-Dodd and Simon Allison, will the trend continue? | 14yrs