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The New York branch of Boston-founded law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr has become the first major legal practice to move to downtown Manhattan since the 11 September terrorist attacks in 2001. | 14yrs

Senators in Jamaica have amended the country's Legal Profession Act, opening the door for a legal regulatory body to tighten control over the relationships between lawyers and clients, in a move that has triggered howls of protest from practitioners. | 14yrs

Former US Supreme Court justice Cynthia Baldwin has been singled out for 'missteps' taken during the investigation of former university football coach Jerry Sandusky. | 14yrs

Scottish lawyers could soon join their counterparts south of the UK border in radical alternative business structures as the jurisdiction's regulator has submitted reform plans to the Edinburgh government, it was announced today. | 14yrs

A London-headquartered niche litigation practice has launched a process to make it easier for its partners to invest in litigation. | 14yrs

A lawyer acting in a suit against US universities over fraud allegations has countersued the country's biggest law school for defamation, it emerged over the weekend. | 14yrs

Creditors from London and Paris are ramping up claims against bankrupt New York-based law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, with one claim totalling more than £600,000. | 14yrs

The Asia Pacific region has bucked the global trend of waning deals activity, according to recent research. | 14yrs

A Birmingham general practice law firm is leading a consortium competing for a licence to broadcast regular television programmes in the city. | 14yrs

Tributes were paid earlier this week to two leading Gibraltar lawyers who died recently, including one of the British colony's political elder statesmen. | 14yrs

The longest running legal dispute in English history - a battle between Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) and Iraqi Airways (IAC) - is set to rumble on after an attempted agreement stalled within the last few days. | 14yrs

America's largest full service consumer firm -- Jacoby & Meyers -- has merged with Macey Bankruptcy Law, the nation's largest consumer bankruptcy practice, in what has been called the most significant merger for consumer law in US history. | 14yrs

Lawyers in India threw a two-day strike this week, disrupting judicial activities at the high court as well as several lower courts, as they protested against proposed reforms to legal education in the country. | 14yrs

The body representing lawyers in Swaziland is seeking a court order to block the country's parliament from launching a probe into the affairs of its members and a study of self-regulation in the legal profession. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Trowers & Hamlins is to open a representative office in Malaysia -- a landmark move marking the gradual liberalisation of practice restrictions in the country. | 14yrs

International law practice Norton Rose is set to advise former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond in relation to the Libor rate-fixing scandal. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Pinsent Masons is set to make its first move into continental Europe with an office opening in Germany later this month. | 14yrs

Former partners of bankrupt New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf are being asked to pay the estate between $25,000 and $3 million each to build a proposed 'settlement plan' totalling $103.6 million. | 14yrs

A leading criminal law judge is to take a top role with Britain's white-collar crime busters as the Serious Fraud Office faces the most profound shake-up in its 25-year history. | 14yrs