While you were sleeping, redux. The world keeps getting smaller.

The rapid march of BigLaw globalization continues. Most of the activity is, understandably, focused on China, the "fastest growing legal market in the world."

• Baker & McKenzie opens in Qatar (just ten months after opening in Luxembourg)
• Blank Rome opens an office in Shanghai
• Chadbourne & Parke announces plans to set up shop in Istanbul
• DLA Piper merges with its 700-lawyer Australian affiliate, DLA Phillips Fox (making DLA Piper the world's largest firm, with approximately 4,200 lawyers worldwide)
• Gibson Dunn opens an office in Hong Kong
• King & Spalding opens a Moscow office
• Locke Lord opens an office in Hong Kong
• Nixon Peabody announces a Global Strategies initiative, which will likely include more expansion along the lines of its recent Hong Kong opening
• Paul Weiss opens in Toronto
• Simpson Thacher launches a Hong Kong law practice
• Wilson Sonsini opens an office in Hong Kong

What are you waiting for?