Professional services giant Deloitte has agreed to a landmark one-year suspension from soliciting new consulting work in New York and will also pay $10 million to the state following a widespread clampdown on independent consulting firms. | 13yrs
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United Technologies Corp has been instructed to pay a total of $473 million plus interest as reimbursement for false charges to gain US Air Force jet engine contracts in the 1980s. | 13yrs
The president of the UK's supreme court has claimed that legal aid cuts will drive away the best lawyers and fail to boost efficiency. | 13yrs
The jury may be out on the economic benefits of the G8 Summit for Northern Ireland but the major trading nations know that NI is open for business. And NI has its own legacy for the world, says Arthur Cox Belfast managing partner Alan Taylor. | 13yrs
A weekly round-up of in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs
Allen & Overy heavyweight Alistair Asher is to join the Co-op as its new group general counsel, ending a 34-year stint at the magic circle firm. | 13yrs
Jacksonville City Council members are set to meet to discuss the removal of general counsel Cindy Laquidara, according to reports. | 13yrs
CIA general counsel Stephen Preston has been chosen by the Obama administration to lead the legal department at the Pentagon. | 13yrs
Global law firm Pinsent Masons has reported a five per cent increase in turnover following its merger with one of Scotland's largest law firms. | 13yrs
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has claimed that an attempt by Libya to prosecute a defence team assigned to Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi would be illegal, adding it has yet to receive any evidence to back up allegations made against the lawyers. | 13yrs
Irish drug company Elan's fate is up in the air as US company Royalty Pharma's hostile bid depends on a legal decision. | 13yrs
The Serious Fraud office (SFO) looks set to prosecute ex-UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for alleged criminal fraud charges over Libor manipulation in the UK, according to reports. | 13yrs
Lawyers in Islamabad and Lahore observed a token strike yesterday following a series of terror attacks in the province of Balochistan. | 13yrs
British lawyers have played down allegations by insurers that petty claims have added £90 to the average motor insurance quote and sealed Britain's title as the whiplash capital of the world. | 13yrs
Judges have threatened to go back to being practising lawyers after plans emerged to trim their pensions by more than a third. | 13yrs
The representative body of solicitors in England and Wales has warned firms affected by the suspension of unrated Latvian professional indemnity insurer Balva to think carefully before choosing another unrated insurer. | 13yrs
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Amelia Cottrell to a leading position at the agency's New York office. | 13yrs
The Egyptian Government has met with several global law firms as it begins talks with investors in order to settle pending commercial and legal disputes. | 13yrs
Washington lawyer Clifford Sloan has been named by President Barack Obama as the new special envoy tasked with closing down the prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. | 13yrs
New York could be the first city in the US to introduce legislation criminalising the buying of counterfeit goods. | 13yrs