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Three Italian consumer groups have filed a complaint urging EU antitrust regulators to investigate McDonald's franchise system in Europe, a month after the opening of an EU inquiry into the company's tax deals with Luxembourg. | 10yrs
Argentina's Finance Ministry yesterday said it will make an offer to US hedge funds later this month, in order to end a legal standoff that has locked the country out of global credit markets for more than a decade. | 10yrs
A new report by security software provider IS Decisions has found that the lack of unique logins, manual logoffs and concurrent logins is putting confidential information in the legal sector at risk. | 10yrs
The iconic image of the American dollar bill could be forced to change if a federal lawsuit filed in Ohio is successful. | 10yrs
A student entrepreneur who created a website to enable people to challenge fines and claim compensation has created a free robot lawyer to make claims on behalf of customers. | 10yrs
Slaughter and May and Sullivan & Cromwell face a challenge in the US over claims they provided improper advice to Standard Chartered during an investigation into sanctions violations. | 10yrs
In a move welcomed by the SRA and industry groups, concerns over the standards and affordability of legal services are to be examined by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). | 10yrs
An interim report from a landmark review of civil justice has backed the creation of an online court for claims worth up to £25,000. | 10yrs
Bird & Bird's accounts show the firm's net debt rose 21 per cent in the last financial year to €46.3m from €38.3m in 2014, following a refinancing of the business. | 10yrs
Fitness consumer technology company Fitbit is facing a new class-action lawsuit over its heart rate monitoring technology PurePulse, which plaintiffs say is dangerously inaccurate. | 10yrs
Europe's antitrust authority will investigate the proposed takeover of Baker Hughes by oil giant Halliburton, responding to concerns that the deal may inflate prices in the European oil and energy sector. | 10yrs
A staggering 112 million American healthcare records were affected by a data breach in 2015, as security violations reduce in number but grow in scale. | 10yrs
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has emerged as the most popular firm for FTSE 100 companies in High Court and Court of Appeal (CoA) cases. | 10yrs
Siti Nurbaya, the Indonesian environment minister, plans to be directly involved in appealing the court's decision in favour of PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), a plantation firm accused of clearing land with fire in South Sumatra. | 10yrs
The jury in a case concerning five former finance professionals accused of conspiring to trade securities with inside information was sworn in yesterday, after years of delays. | 10yrs
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