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British Columbia's law firms are attempting to boost the retention of female lawyers on their books following recent evidence suggesting that within the first 10 years of qualification women are far more likely to leave the profession than males. | 13yrs

The European Parliament yesterday backed changes to do away with 27 national rules for recognising judgments in cross-border court cases, in a move expected to help businesses and consumers resolve disputes more easily. | 13yrs

Pretoria-based law firm Ramulifho is being investigated for allegedly defrauding the Pan South African Language Board by inflating invoices. | 13yrs

Former CIA Director General David Petraeus has hired a renowned Washington DC lawyer to defend him in the multiple investigations of an alleged extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. | 13yrs

Lawyers for Lord McAlpine have identified some 1,000 Twitter comments - re-posted by a further 9,000 users - they intend to take legal action against for wrongly linking the Tory peer with child abuse. | 13yrs

Defence lawyers in Scotland launched a one-day strike yesterday in protest at proposed changes to the jurisdiction's legal aid system that they claim could spawn a rash of miscarrages of justice. | 13yrs

Former Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins has been convicted of assisting executives at financial services company Refco to conceal a $2.4 billion fraud. | 13yrs

Top UK law firms are increasingly moving towards outsourcing key services such as litigation support and document drafting, research released today shows. | 13yrs

European regulators overstepped their authority and went on a 'fishing expedition' by launching a dawn raid on the offices of a Paris-based energy company, a branch of the European Court of Justice has ruled. | 13yrs

British oil and gas company BP has been stung with the largest criminal fine in US history as part of a $4.5 billion settlement in the fallout from the fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. | 13yrs

A legal scrap between a lap dancer and the proprietor of a group of gentlemen's clubs is being watched with interest by UK employment lawyers -- and could have a knock on effect for church organists. | 13yrs

Deloitte is to become the last of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms to introduce its own legal offering in Germany by acquiring mid-market mergers and acquisitions specialist practice Raupach & Wollert-Elmendorff. | 13yrs

The chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers has claimed that Chelsea Football Club and England's Football Association have 'covered-up' alleged racial comments made by referee Mark Clattenburg by not reporting them to the police. | 13yrs

Leading London law firms -- including two magic circle players -- have committed to pay the living wage to their lowest-paid staff, including all outsourced employees. | 13yrs

Canadian anti-bribery laws are being more stringently enforced, creating complex issues for local companies looking to capitalise on emerging markets, specialist risk analysts warn. | 13yrs

Lawyers representing US college football and basketball players released documents earlier this week allegedly revealing that a national academic governing body was aware that students' likenesses were used without consent by a video games maker. | 13yrs

Uncertainty over social media and jurisdictional approaches to defamation could become the most profound legal implication of the row currently raging over the BBC in the UK. | 13yrs

Cupertino technology giant Apple has suffered a blow in its on-going patent war after its law suit against Google's Motorola Mobility unit was thrown out hours before it was set for trial. | 13yrs

German financial services company Commerzbank was yesterday given the right to appeal a UK High Court decision regarding a claim made by 104 bankers for €400m in unpaid bonuses. | 13yrs