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A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice. | 13yrs

Controversial new anti tax avoidance measures look set to get off to a chaotic start next week - as the US Internal Revenue Service requires many foreign businesses to register with it but has not explained what they need to do. | 13yrs

Lawyers around the world are reacting with shock to an inter-governmental report which suggests some complicity with money laundering in parts of the legal sector. | 13yrs

A group of government lawyers in the US, called 'Team Telecom', is setting up a network of detailed agreements with fibre optics companies to ensure that the US can continue its global surveillance operations. | 13yrs

Two of the world's largest energy traders have fallen foul of regulations in Tanzania which prohibited them from collaborating while bidding separately for an oil import contract. | 13yrs

Field Fisher Waterhouse has tied the knot with a 14 lawyer Chinese law firm. | 13yrs

The Philippines is expected to pave the way for more liberal employment laws later this month. | 13yrs

The Privy Council is not losing its touch, says Davenport Lyons lawyer Theo Solley. | 13yrs

BP will today seek to persuade a federal appeals court to limit the way compensation is calculated for companies affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. | 13yrs

The US Supreme Court has leaned consistently to the right and supported big business over the last year, according to legal scholars. | 13yrs

Italian lawyers are set to go on strike next week to block a move by the government to fast-track civil trials. | 13yrs

Turnover has increased at many of the UK's leading law firms despite pessimistic predictions throughout the profession, with magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer posting a stand-out increase of 7.2 per cent. | 13yrs

The case against Bernard Madoff has hit a brick wall after Peter Madoff, younger brother of the jailed Ponzi scheme fraudster, refused multiple questions yesterday in London's High Court. | 13yrs

Three members of the Tokyo based Olympus Corp have been found guilty for their role in an extensive fraudulent scheme, which has shell-shocked corporate Japan. | 13yrs

A Supreme Court ruling in a case involving Virgin Atlantic Airways has overturned a century-old legal principle of patent-holders having a right to damages for infringed patents notwithstanding later amendment to the patent. | 13yrs

The Law Society of England and Wales has taken steps to help small law firms finding difficulty getting professional indemnity insurance (PII). | 13yrs

The Barclay brothers left a London court yesterday with a win under their belt following another bout with an Irish businessman over three of London's most prominent hotels. | 13yrs

Hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia have been given a last minute reprieve against threatened deportation. The move came hours before new laws were meant to come into place on 3 July. | 13yrs

NHS guidance for investigating complaints from patients has been declared 'confusing' and 'unlawful' by campaigners and their lawyers, as threats of a legal challenge build against Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. | 13yrs