Joseph 'Pino' Acquaro, who represented a number of prominent criminal figures, has been gunned down in what was believed to be a professional hit. | 10yrs
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A new study from Consero Group has found that the vast majority of in-house departments are unprepared to deal with the legal fallout of a cybersecurity breach, despite most citing cybersecurity as a major risk facing their company. | 10yrs
A former employee of Volkswagen's US subsidiary has claimed that evidence was destroyed after the US announced that the company had installed illegal devices to cheat emissions tests on hundreds of thousands of vehicles. | 10yrs
A coalition of at least 200 QCs and senior legal officials have banded together against the UK government's investigatory powers bill, arguing that the proposed legislation is not only unethical but potentially illegal. | 10yrs
The Bar Council has warned that a proposed online court for small claims could have 'major implications' for the judiciary and training at the bar. | 10yrs
Leading British and EU lawyers have suggested that a vote to leave in June's referendum could push many legal professionals to re-qualify in Ireland and other EU member states. | 10yrs
However, the accountancy giant insists it has no similar plans for the UK. | 10yrs
A barrister who forged documents and lied about her age and experience in order to secure a pupillage has been handed a $5,000 fine and disbarred in New York. | 10yrs
US firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is in the process of establishing an office in Hong Kong with the hire of Clyde & Co partner and global head of aviation finance Paul Jebely. | 10yrs
Research undertaken by LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions shows that 57 per cent of law firms are optimistic about growth in 2016, but pricing (for 52 per cent) and competition (for 46 per cent) pose the two biggest challenges to achieving this goal. | 10yrs
A 67-year-old inventor is seeking $400m in damages from the company which made Post-It Notes a global success, claiming that he himself invented the adhesive-backed note squares. | 10yrs
A group of more than 250 lawyers and academics, including former EU judges, QCs and partners from some heavyweight firms, have signed a report that opposes Britain leaving the EU. | 10yrs
Linklaters has made a new play in the war for talent, upping pay and bonuses for its junior lawyers and revamping its holiday offerings and flexible work policy. | 10yrs
A round-up of promotions from around the globe. | 10yrs
A man handed 30 years' imprisonment for conspiracy and racketeering has had his sentence vacated after a court heard that his lawyer slept through sizeable chunks of his trial. | 10yrs
A new report argues that demand for legal services will dramatically change with an ageing population and the decline of the nuclear family. | 10yrs
A survey by company-rating and recruitment website Glassdoor has shown that lawyers in the US last year had a median base salary of $144,500. | 10yrs
Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Clifford Chance's Alastair Mordaunt to lead its Hong Kong competition practice. | 10yrs
A Dusseldorf court has ruled that Facebook's 'Like' function contravenes German and EU privacy laws by transferring the IP addresses of e-commerce consumers to Facebook without their knowledge or consent. | 10yrs
Following a review, the Bar Standards Board has confirmed that it will make the Bar Course Aptitude Test harder to pass in order to lift the quality of would-be barristers. | 10yrs