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The total of criminal penalties given to corporates in the US rose 647 per cent between 2001 and 2012, according to figures complied by Brandon Garrett, law school professor at the University of Virginia. | 12yrs

Lawyers are told to balance the interests of their clients with the African continent which is suffering from money illegally leaving the country. | 12yrs

The UK government is cracking down on a culture of ambulance-chasing by barring lawyers from offering iPads, money and other deals to victims of accidents. | 12yrs

Flawed data is the reason behind the vilification of international financial centres, two top professors find. | 12yrs

Deloitte is following its Big Four accountant rivals by formally focusing on the development of a global legal arm and has appointed Amsterdam-based Piet Hein Meeter to drive it forward. | 12yrs

Lawyers are favouring Apple over Blackberry which has seen its usage halved in the legal market in the past year. | 12yrs

The White House has appointed a lawyer to the post which has been unfilled for 18 months. | 12yrs

General Motors has fired 15 employees, including some legal execs, over a 'pattern of incompetence and neglect' in the recall of cars which has led to at least 13 deaths. | 12yrs

Florian Haugeneder becomes the new head of the practice, taking over from Christoph Liebscher. | 12yrs

A new law firm, to be known as Simmons Hanly Conroy, will be created on 1 July through through the merger of St Louis-based Simmons Browder and New York-based Hanly Conroy. | 12yrs

As President Obama weights into the Scottish Independence debate, a UK law firm has surveyed oil and gas companies to see what they think. | 12yrs

Bank of America is in discussions with the US Department of Justice over the payment of some $US12b, in order to end the largest legal threat it faces. | 12yrs

US-based online law firm Clearspire has closed down just over a year after making ambitious projections to grow by 100 lawyers annually. | 12yrs

Promising corporate governance and transparency, a contender for the Nigerian Bar has also focused on foreign law partnerships as part of his manifesto. | 12yrs

Canadian companies are relying on the Chief Legal Officer to safeguard against litigation and support profitability. | 12yrs

Three lawyers in Saudi Arabia have been fined a total of US$266,667 for sending out tweets which were critical of the Ministry of Justice. | 12yrs

Judges who travel to remote parts of Australia are being overwhelmed by the volume of family law cases, with workloads rising so much that they have to handle 70 matters a week. | 12yrs

David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google, has become one of the company's main mouthpieces in response to espionage allegations in China. | 12yrs

The American Lawyer sale is the latest in a raft of deals involving legal news and analysis companies. | 12yrs