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Advertisers are looking to get their hands on data from connected cars in a move to predict passenger behaviour. | 11yrs

A round robin email from the management of the 1,100-lawyer firm yesterday morning told them that emails and other electronic messages would not be sent to them between 11pm and 6am, at weekends and while they were on holiday. | 11yrs

Bordeaux Fine Wines was wound up with nearly £10 million worth of wine outstanding to clients and £57 million worth of debts. | 11yrs

General counsel and the chief legal officers at NASDAQ, General Electric, Marsh & McLennan and 29 other leading companies have signed a joint letter to the Obama administration and Congress - supporting data-sharing in the battle against hackers. | 11yrs

A good number of luxury retailers, such as Louis Vuitton, have grown their own successful international operations. However, there are others that, despite significant financial investment, have struggled to match their domestic success overseas. | 11yrs

Food is the new luxury, if premier London store Harrods has got it right. | 11yrs

A 27-year old law and accountancy student at London South Bank University who had been to the Syrian-Turkish border and mixed with jihadists was sentenced by a judge at the Old Bailey. | 11yrs

A bag with a distinctive shape can be protected, according to a court in Rome. | 11yrs

Alcoholic counterfeiting is the latest target for those faking luxury goods in China, says Paolo Beconcini and Robert Binion, partners at Carroll Burdick LLP. | 11yrs

The embroiled Gibson Dunn partner Peter Gray is one of three men accused by the lawyer who used to be head of Leeds United FC. | 11yrs

Corporate counsel can offer their expertise across a wide range of areas which benefit business, according to the GC Excellence Report. | 11yrs

US corporates are unable to appoint the lawyer of their choice when they go to India, Marcelo Bombau says. | 11yrs

Structure Tone, a leading US building company, has pleaded guilty to corruption charges in relation to the defrauding of numerous famous businesses including Proskauer Rose. | 11yrs

A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs

The SEC's heightened focus on fraud could be the reason behind the significant increase. | 11yrs

A team of lawyers will be built up from July in Perth and Sydney when corporate finance specialist Tim Lester and banking and finance specialist Nicky Lester move to set up the Hogan Lovells presence in the country. | 11yrs

Administrators who run practice areas in US law firms saw their salaries go up by an average of 18 per cent last year, according to the Enhanced Law Firm Compensation & Benefits Survey from the Association of Legal Administrators. | 11yrs

Chicago-based Kirkland Ellis, famous for its high partner compensation, saw profits per partner rise seven per cent in 2014, taking them up from $3.1m to $3.5m. | 11yrs

The head of the corporate practice and a fellow partner, both based in Baltimore, stood down after a client filed a US$10m malpractice suit, claiming that the two asked her to start paying her monthly retainer into a company owned by them. | 11yrs