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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is gearing up for a relaunch in Singapore, almost five years after the firm shut down its former office in the region.

The magic circle firm is planning to open the new arm this autumn, with the move expected to be discussed at a meeting of the firm’s partnership council this week.

The new office will focus on arbitration, corporate, projects and energy work, with the firm also looking to use the base as a strategic access point for India.

One Freshfields partner said: “Singapore is being talked about all the time as the firm’s next strategic move. Hong Kong has become a greater China hub and Singapore is becoming the hub of Southeast Asia.

“A Singapore office is definitely something people would like to see happen – and soon. All of th

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PHOENIX (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to child abuse after his infant son nearly drowned in a Tempe motel bathtub has been sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years’ probation.

Maricopa County prosecutors say 26-year-old Jasen Anchondo was sentenced Tuesday.

He and the child’s mother, 23-year-old Summer Dawn Angelly, both pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse in November.

Authorities say the 11-month-old boy was left in the tub unsupervised Aug. 5 because he had soiled his diaper and the couple had run out of clean ones. They had been living at the motel for weeks after moving to Arizona from California.

Tempe police say the baby was revived with CPR. H

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Monica Kim was thrilled to gain a spot in Protess’
class and taken aback to learn he would not be
leading it. “I was under the impression that I
would be working with Professor Protess. It was
kind of a surprise for everyone in the class.”
Photo by Len Irish.

Last spring Monica Kim, a Northwestern University journalism student, ventured into some of Chicagos roughest and most impoverished neighborhoods as part of a class project to investigate whether a man was wrongfully convicted of murder.

Kim was a little nervous at first as she knocked on doors to locate witnesses on the citys West Side, but she pressed on because she believed she was doing important work.

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Enlarge Final days of New Hampshire GOP Primary 2012 gallery (15 photos)

MANCHESTER, N.H. Although the Republican presidential candidates seemed tense and on the defense at times over the past few days, the overall mood in New Hampshire has been one of excitement ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary.

On highway overpasses and at busy intersections, signs supporting each of the candidates are waving in the wind.

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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Michele Bachmann told a small group of supporters Tuesday night that she’s staying in the presidential race as the only true conservative who can defeat the sitting president, despite a bleak showing in the Iowa caucuses.

The Minnesota congresswoman was running in last place among six candidates as returns came in from the nation’s first Republican presidential nominating contest.

“I believe that I am that true conservative who can and who will defeat Barack Obama in 2012,” she said. “What we need is a fearless conservative, one with no compromises on their record on spending on health care, on crony capitalism, on defending America, on standing with our ally Israel.”

Shortly before Bachmann spoke, her campaign manager suggested she might leave the race. A Find more info…