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US patent licensing firm Intellectual Ventures has begun a major campaign against the banking industry over payment systems and online banking. | 13yrs

Secretary general of the democratic party and leading Hong Kong lawyer Albert Ho Chun-yan has revealed that he was part of discussions held with the government to consider the fate of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. | 13yrs

Unprecedented pressure on UK law firms has caused the Solicitors' Regulatory Authority to place hundreds of firms under supervision as they prepare for more financial hardship this year. | 13yrs

The UK's data watchdog has instructed technology giant Google to delete secretly-collected data or face prosecution. | 13yrs

The 'Happy Birthday' song, heard on that special day once a year, may no longer be music to your ears. | 13yrs

Fluctuations in the legal job market have not had a negative effect on the standard of work completed by UK lawyers, a research project has found. | 13yrs

Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi and his father Jorge are to appear before a Spanish court for questioning over alleged tax fraud. | 13yrs

Legal professionals in Vietnam have reacted angrily after the team representing a prominent dissident lawyer detained on tax evasion charges was refused access to court documents ahead of a trial. | 13yrs

A plan to clamp down on reckless London bankers with threats of prison time may fail to have any real effect, city lawyers have claimed. | 13yrs

New research has revealed businesses are not taking as much care to safeguard intellectual property online compared to how they protect assets offline. | 13yrs

Connecticut lawyer Don Howard isn't only offering legal advice in his Hartford office but hair cuts as well. | 13yrs

Fashion label partners Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been convicted of tax evasion and face a suspended jail sentence of a year and eight months and a fine of €500,000 each, a Milan court ruled. | 13yrs

Bernard Squarcini, the former French domestic spy chief, has been indicted for ordering the capture of phone records belonging to a journalist investigating alleged illegal party funding involving former president Nicolas Sarkozy. | 13yrs

The families of British soldiers killed in Iraq due to poorly armoured vehicles will be able to bring claims against the government on human rights grounds, the UK's highest court has judged. | 13yrs

US authorities are considering whether or not to bring cases against foreign officials who are responsible for the escalating cyber attacks targeting US businesses and government information. | 13yrs

Lawyers representing the former chief executive of helicopter design company AgustaWestland have asked an Italian court to call India's Defence Minister as a witness in the opening exchanges of its corruption trial. | 13yrs

A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen. | 13yrs

UK fraud enforcers have charged key Libor trader Tom Hayes in the first criminal case seeking justice for his involvement in rigging the London interbank lending rate. | 13yrs

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg could be extradited to Denmark for accused hacking charges, a Swedish court has ruled. | 13yrs