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New York-based law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has taken on a leading role for Barclays on its £290 million settlement over charges of interest rate manipulation and false reporting. | 14yrs

Despite ploughing funds into marketing and business development on the internet, there is still a gap between what GCs want from an external law firm and what the firms are providing, according to recent research. | 14yrs

A Manhattan judge has ordered Twitter to produce the tweets and user information of an 'Occupy Wall Street' protestor, throwing out objections from the social media web site. | 14yrs

A global association of lawyers has donated nearly €7,000 to a Greek children's charity in recognition of the on-going difficulties facing the country as its economy continues to deteriorate. | 14yrs

Investment products legislation set for unveiling today | 14yrs

Chicago-based international law firm Mayer Brown has appointed a leading ex-UK government lawyer to boost its regulatory advice at the firm's London office. | 14yrs

The number of US law firm mergers and acquisitions announced in the second quarter of this year dipped below the average deal flow for the last two years, with experts citing the demise of New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf as a key cause for the decline. | 14yrs

London-headquartered global law firm Clyde & Co is open offices in Sydney and Perth this autumn, the firm announced yesterday. | 14yrs

Several US state judges are preparing to consider whether illegal immigrants can join state bars and practise law in those jurisdictions. | 14yrs

Three South Asian American lawyers have scooped major prizes at an annual awards round designed to recognise leading work in that community in the US. | 14yrs

Chris Kourakis, South Australia's recently-appointed Chief Justice, has singled out the cost of justice as the biggest problem with the jurisdiction's legal system. | 14yrs

The Law Society of Trinidad and Tobago is on the brink of electing a new president following the resignation of all former members in connection with the loss of more than a quarter of a million dollars in association funds. | 14yrs

A Lagos high court has ruled that the Nigeria's leading legal professional body has no right or duty to regulate lawyers or validate the records of legal practitioners. | 14yrs

Brussels does deal, but lawyers still concerned | 14yrs

Families of the dead in the Costa Concordia disaster have hired scores of lawyers in both Italy and the US to pursue those responsible and also the parent company of the ship's owner. | 14yrs

Legal profession and judicial independence must be keenly defended as they can be seriously threatened in even long-standing democracies, a senior bar leader warned today. | 14yrs

Associates at Anglo-US firm Hogan Lovells are the happiest and most satisfied lawyers in the British legal profession, according to survey results released today. | 14yrs

UK law firms are hamstringing their growth by failing to match technology upgrades with business priorities, according to research released today. | 14yrs

The methods used to influence consumers through branding and packaging could be converted to the judicial process for copycat infringement cases, according to a report by London-headquartered law firm Speechly Bircham. | 14yrs