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London-based, New Zealand-born litigation partner Anthony Dutton, 49, has died suddenly and, according to the notice placed on the Dechert website, 'will be greatly missed and thought of often'. | 11yrs

The mayor of Surabaya, the departure point for crashed flight QZ8501, has offered to deliver advice through local academics to grieving families after it crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December with 162 people aboard. | 11yrs

The law firm which acts for Garmin, the global GPS specialist, is planning to move into new premises next year which will use biometric security and other techniques to give added protection to client data. | 11yrs

US-based, 230-lawyer practice Brown Rudnick has signed collaboration agreements with two firms in the UAE which operate in Beirut and Dubai. | 11yrs

Legal entrepreneurs and White House officials feature prominently in the new '30 under 30 Law and Policy list' - including the first-named , Daniel Lewis, whose business Ravel Law is being used in half the top US law firms. | 11yrs

Eleven international judges have been appointed to the new Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) which was formally launched today. | 11yrs

Private equity managers, frustrated by having to hold large cash balances in case investors want to bail out, are becoming far more interested in raising 'permanent capital', a means of receiving investment money 'in perpetuity'. | 11yrs

Allen & Overy, Dentons and other UK law firms are dominating the sukuk issuance sector, along with British banks, even though Malaysia remains the geographical capital. | 11yrs

Companies being listed in the US have been slow to adopt provisions in the Jobs Act 2012 which could have made the process significantly easier, according to a report from Paul Hastings. | 11yrs

Companies are being warned that they are putting themselves at risk of violating data protection laws by accumulating data just because it could be useful to analyse. | 11yrs

Other multinationals will be following the experience of Qualcomm with concern as experts predict that other regulators will start investigating its patents, now that the Chinese authorities are finishing their probe. | 11yrs

The outgoing chair of the UK's Bar Standards Board has expressed concern that potential recruits to the law will be so put off from joining by recent Legal Aid cuts that their absence will be felt in the legal infrastructure for several decades. | 11yrs

Men who sound extremely macho are less likely to win in the US Supreme Court than those who use gentler tones, according to scientific research. | 11yrs

Zhong Lun has signed up to to L& Global Employers' Counsel Worldwide, an alliance of employment law specialist firms. | 11yrs

Another legal action - this time from the city of Providence, Rhode Island - has been launched against the Brazilian oil corporate whose star has fallen amidst a mass of accusations and law suits. | 11yrs

Golberg & Iryami, based in New York, is said to have been making payments to a politician over the last decade - and that those payments have not been declared. | 11yrs

The 270-lawyer Washington-based practice is acquiring McBee Strategic which will become a subsidiary of the firm. | 11yrs

A group of 66 lawyers are behind 0.5% of petitions filed to the US Supreme Court but a remarkable 43% of cases that the Court decides to hear. | 11yrs

Eddie Greenspan, who represented media baron Conrad Black and German financier Karlheinz Schreiber among other well-known clients, has died in his family holiday home in Phoenix at the age of 70. | 11yrs