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
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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
A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 10yrs
Four human rights advocates have been formally arrested by the Chinese police on charges of subverting state power, according to one of their colleagues and rights groups. | 10yrs
Mississippi-headquartered Butler Snow has announced it is opening its first office in Asia in Singapore and a virtual office in Hong Kong. | 10yrs
Opponents of the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement say New Zealand will be more vulnerable to legal attacks from foreign investors under its investment chapter. | 10yrs
A federal judge in San Francisco is calling on Robert S. Mueller III, a long-time director of the FBI now with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, to help manage the massive litigation facing Volkswagen AG over its emissions scandal. | 10yrs
The tug of war between The Royal Bank of Scotland and its go-to law firms over a proposed pay freeze ended with Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters winning appointments to the bank's legal panel for the next three years. | 10yrs
Nabarro's French ally Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés is to merge with fellow Paris-based firm CGR Legal, creating a €44m (£32.9m) firm with 160 lawyers. | 10yrs