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Cleveland-based global law firm Squire Sanders is to open in Singapore following the award of a local practice licence, the firm announced today. | 14yrs

Italian police seized about $1.5 billion worth of assets last week from the family of dead former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in response to a request by international prosecutors in The Hague. | 14yrs

There's a perception that the glass ceiling has been shattered by successful female lawyers. It's wrong, says Chrissie Lightfoot -- women are still smashing their heads and much vital progress needs to be made | 14yrs

Morocco's leaders are facing increasing pressure to bolster women's rights in the North African country in the wake of growing unease around the case of a girl who committed suicide after being forced to marry her rapist. | 14yrs

Critics rounded on the South African government earlier this week after Pretoria proposed a controversial 'secrecy law' that they fear would create a 'police state'. | 14yrs

Corporates need urgently to address issues of data governance from both internal and external regualtory perspectives, argues Howard Sklar | 14yrs

Leading Italian mergers and acquisitions specialist Andrea Carta Mantiglia is to take over the top slot in his firm's London office, Rome and Milan-based Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has announced. | 14yrs

Human rights campaigners are pressing the Bolivian government to reform the country's criminal defamation laws following the recent conviction of a leading editor who has been sentenced to a two-anda- half-year prison term. | 14yrs

London-based global law firms Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy are advising the National Bank of Abu Dhabi on a $750 million five-year bond, according to ALB's The Brief magazine. | 14yrs

President Otto Perez Molina is risking the wrath of Washington by promoting the legalisation of drugs in Guatemala in his current re-election campaign. | 14yrs

Global general counsel answer our big question | 14yrs

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 14yrs

Nebraska-based Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) has announced the promotion of Gayla Thal to the positions of senior vice president-law and general counsel. | 14yrs

Margaret Cole - the in-demand former managing director of Britain's Financial Services Authority's conduct business unit - has been appointed general counsel of PricewaterhouseCoopers UK. | 14yrs

Drugs and the American Dream: An anthology Published by: Wiley-Blackwell Editors: Patricia Adler and Patrick O'Brien (University of Colorado, Boulder), and Peter Adler (University of Denver) February 2012, P/B, £40.50/€48.60 ISBN: 978-0-470-67027-9 | 14yrs

The Business of Law: strategies for success Published by: Globe Law and Business in association with the International Bar Association Author: Various April 2012 H/B £120 ISBN: 9781905783618 | 14yrs

A knight to the rescue; chef exploits leave nasty taste; help for oldest profession; madam hires and fires; fake barrister busted; and an attorney general makes amends | 14yrs

A wander through the global legal profession's blogosphere | 14yrs

Our round-up of recent senior moves and appointments around the globe. | 14yrs