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Al Tamimi & Company promotes five partners | 14yrs

Appointments in Milan, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Dublin and Portugal | 14yrs

City of London law firm Vargate Murray has lured Alfred Merckx to head its newly formed aviation department. Mr Merckx joins from Dubai-based JetEx Flight Support where he was general counsel. | 14yrs

Austrian construction lawyer Georg Karasek and his 'right hand man' Wolfgang Mueller have joined leading central European law firm Wolf Theiss as partners. | 14yrs

Canada and off-shore feature this week | 14yrs

Amendments to Ireland's highly controversial package of proposed legal profession reforms were signalled at the end of last week, as the Dublin minister responsible showed signs of buckling under the heat of growing criticism. | 14yrs

Ethnic minorities continue to be severely under-represented in British Columbia's legal profession, an influential report released last week has found. | 14yrs

Hong Kong's top justice minister has attempted to reassure the residents of the former British colony that principles of open and fair trials are being upheld 15 years after the territory was handed back to the Chinese. | 14yrs

The International Criminal Court defence lawyer recently freed from Libya has defended her actions in the country and asserted that her three-week detention proves that Moammar Gadhafi's son will not receive a fair trial in the jurisdiction. | 14yrs

Two of mid-town Manhattan's leading family law specialists are being wheeled out by actress Katie Holmes as her divorce from Hollywood star Tom Cruise looks set to let loose a barrage of fireworks. | 14yrs

The Germans invented the printing press and published the world's first newspaper. But the British - and latterly, the Americans - have written the book on modern journalism and press practices. | 14yrs

Published by: Cambridge University Press Author: Roger Brownsword & Morag Goodwin June 2012 P/B £35 ISBN: 9780521186247 | 14yrs

Published by: Princeton University Press Author: Tom Tyler July 2012 P/B £24.95 ISBN: 978-0691126739 | 14yrs

Nuggets of gold or smoking guns can be buried deep in an organisation's information mine. Having the tools to unearth them is vital, counsels Nigel Cannings | 14yrs

It's law firm numbers season in London, but, reports Jonathan Ames, management teams are increasingly turning their gaze eastwards and Down Under | 14yrs

GlaxoSmithKline's top lawyer is hailed by his peers as being a 'value champion' for the way in which he has driven down expenditure on outside counsel. He explains to Jonathan Ames how working with procurement and technology has saved the company | 14yrs

Amid the clamour of politicking over Tehran's possible bid to build a nuclear weapon, sanctions are badly damaging potential European business opportunities in a large and vibrant Middle East market, suggests Shahrzad Atai | 14yrs

Hounded daily at a public inquiry into its ethics, this is not a good time to be a British newspaper. But, writes Amber Melville-Brown, the UK government is about to chuck the press a bone of comfort that could make an impact around the world | 14yrs

A controversial naming-and-shaming policy for errant lawyers in England has been put on hold after the watchdog responsible said the process required 'refining'. | 14yrs