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Two white shoe law firms and one magic circle practice dominated a leading mergers and acquisitions league table for the first half of this year. | 14yrs

Saudi Arabia launched a raft of law reform earlier this week that experts forecast will dramatically affect financial dealings in the country. | 14yrs

Multi-national pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is facing calls for prosecution in the UK following its admission of healthcare fraud in the US. | 14yrs

Two global law firms have combined to advise on Asia's largest ever flotation, the $3.2 billion initial public offering of Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad. | 14yrs

Music, films, books and games downloaded from computer programs are to be more freely transferable, following a groundbreaking ruling by Europe's top court. | 14yrs

India's highest court has directed the Reserve Bank of India not to permit law firms from abroad to open liaison offices in the country, in what is a major set-back for the Asian aspirations of global legal practices. | 14yrs

The United Methodist University (UMU) is to break the Liberian government's monopoly hold on legal education in the country, reports from Africa suggest. | 14yrs

Smartphone manufacturer HTC has won a significant High Court victory over Californian rival Apple, as a London judge ruled that the Taiwan-based company had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own. | 14yrs

A former Debevoise & Plimpton associate who is currently in prison after forcing a teenage Russian boy to be his sex slave has finally been suspended from practice by a state appeals court pending disciplinary proceedings. | 14yrs

Barclays Bank could face claims totalling $6 billion globally as the fall-out continues from the revelation that staff manipulated a key interest rate. | 14yrs

A British judge has prevented identification of a divorcing couple to protect the safety of the husband's father, in a landmark judgment this week. | 14yrs

The California Assembly Judiciary Committee has voted to block a lawyer-backed bill seeking to improve the class-action prospects for consumers. | 14yrs

The number of commercial disputes brought before the European Court of Justice increased dramatically in 2011, according to figures released today. | 14yrs

A British businessman has been charged with attempted murder after attacking a solicitor with a sawn-off shotgun as he worked at his office in rural Wiltshire. | 14yrs

The Kenyan military and police forces must be more effective in their gathering and analysis of intelligence relating to attacks on Christian churches, a leading local lawyer has said. | 14yrs

Canadian lawyers who take up new private practice or in-house roles are likely to be on far lower salaries than those who took similar positions last year, according to recent survey. | 14yrs

London received more international propety investment in 2011 than any other European city, according to a report released today. | 14yrs

English firms rush to release financial figures | 14yrs

More than 60 per cent of lawyers working in private practice would consider moving to an in-house position, according to a survey from UK legal recruiter Laurence Simons. | 14yrs