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Corporate counsel still have work to do in assessing how they want their changing relationships with external law firms to evolve, the head of one of the world's leading in-house legal groups tells Jonathan Ames | 14yrs

The London office of Atlanta-based law firm King & Spalding has been appointed as international counsel to the Greek government to advise it on the first sale of local oil exploration since 1996. | 14yrs

International law firm Squire Sanders acted for renowned Nottingham-based global bicycle brand Raleigh Cycle in its sale to Dutch bicycle manufacturer Accell Group. | 14yrs

London-headquartered international law firm Herbert Smith advised the British Cabinet Office on the creation of MyCSP, a 'John Lewis-style' business created from a central government service. | 14yrs

Britain's top judge is close to cutting two lucrative retirement deals in the Gulf and southeast Asia, UK media reports have revealed. | 14yrs

Global giant Clifford Chance is planning to end arrangements allowing underperforming partners up to a year to pull up their socks before they are forced to leave. | 14yrs

London law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain advised A&N Media - the consumer media business of Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT) - on its purchase of Italian job website Jobrapido. | 14yrs

A solution to the controversial question of tolling on the highways of South African province Guateng appears to be in the offing, with political - rather than legal - figures leading the way. | 14yrs

Lawyers and prison workers in Dubai have criticised the emirate's blood money laws, saying that the current position leaves many in a Catch-22 situation in which all parties lose out. | 14yrs

Global general counsel answer our big question | 14yrs

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 14yrs

'Nasty, brutish and short,' was the verdict of 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes on the condition of pre-civilised man. But it might as well be the epitaph for the existence of global law firm Dewey LeBoeuf. | 14yrs

Electronic document searching and review is often the bane of modern litigation. Nick Patience considers an emerging technique designed to make the process more efficient | 14yrs

Beauty parades for corporate legal services are taking off in Denmark. Randi Bach Poulsen describes the background to this development and warns fellow law firm managing partners of potential pitfalls | 14yrs

Russian is almost the unofficial second language of London's commercial court. Anthony Riem and Trevor Mascarenhas attempt to explain why | 14yrs

The eurozone may be in crisis, but that doesn't mean the continent's business law firms will drown en masse. Alison Hook argues that routes to success still exist | 14yrs

Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $202 million to settle claims that it misled a US government housing agency to profit from the resale of mortgages, potentially causing thousands of Americans to face defaulting or eviction. | 14yrs

Facebook's $1 billion purchase of photo-sharing application Instagram is being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission, potentially postponing the deal's close beyond the forecasted second quarter. | 14yrs

A major investigation into the sale of medical drugs in India has unearthed collusion between the country's regulator and global pharmaceutical companies, according to a parliamentary committee. | 14yrs