The Department of Justice's and its newly created Prosecution Task Force on Cybercrime are calling for specialist courts to be set up. | 12yrs
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A report produced in 2000 on the way government lawyers questioned President Bill Clinton's intern and intimate Monica Lewinsky upholds her statements that she was treated poorly by them. | 12yrs
Pressure is coming on the South Korean parliament to pass a bill which would increase the punishment handed out to civil servants who take bribes. | 12yrs
Linklaters leads the UK100 listing of firms by revenue earnt from the UK last year, showing revenue of £564m - but US firms are making progress further down the table. | 12yrs
Partners in US practices Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman Palmer are preparing to vote on whether they should merge to create a 1,000-lawyer from January. | 12yrs
One of the senior Deutsche Bank regulatory lawyers who has been involved in negotiating over allegations of benchmark fixing appears to have committed suicide. | 12yrs
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The Robert Half Legal 2015 Salary Guide predicts the biggest increases for compliance officers of ten years standing (5.2%) and for ten-year qualifieds at small to midsize law firms (4.9%). | 12yrs
A group of 32 law firms which acted for UCLA amateur basketball player Ed O'Bannon is seeking US50m relating to the three-week hearing this summer. | 12yrs
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The cloud-based practice manager solution LexisNexis Firm Manager is to be integrated into Microsoft Office 365. | 12yrs
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Some experts have cautiously welcomed the announcement of reforms which will discourage local Communist party officials from trying to influence judges. | 12yrs
Legal practices are among the businesses being targeted by at least 13 advanced malware groups from China, according to a forensics expert. | 12yrs
Environmental lawyers are considering following the example of tobacco cases by using state courts to challenge polluters. | 12yrs
Some 35 countries have been represented at the 31st international conference of TAGLaw, the association of independent law firms. | 12yrs
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The rapid growth in investigations in China into corporate misconduct has seen several US law firms increase their numbers there. | 12yrs