A Lancashire lawyer has been hit with a fine and a huge legal bill after an office outburst in which she remarked 'I cannot stand Jewish people'. | 13yrs
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New York-based hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners and its leader Phillip Falcone have agreed to pay an $18m settlement to the US securities watchdog, ending a year-long fraud investigation. | 13yrs
A Slovakian bank and its shareholder have announced they have filed a ground-breaking international arbitration claim against Greece arising out of the country's sovereign debt restructure in March last year. | 13yrs
The majority of senior executives at international businesses believe that domestic regulation has allowed their company to successfully expand into overseas markets, research from global law firm Reed Smith has found. | 13yrs
Los Angeles-headquartered law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced it is to open an office in Sydney. | 13yrs
The struggle to secure a training contract is causing law students to consider a future away from law firms when they graduate, a research project today revealed. | 13yrs
A teenage star who voiced Dora the Explorer on US television network Nickeloedeon has failed in an attempt to re-open a $10 million lawsuit that she settled for $500,000. | 13yrs
A US federal judge launched a scathing attack on copyright lawyers who allegedly coerced people to settle porn copyright lawsuits or else be revealed as illegal porn downloaders. | 13yrs
Los Angeles-headquartered law firm Latham & Watkins has announced the capture of a four-partner team from German office of US rival Shearman & Sterling to spearhead its soon-to-launch Düsseldorf office. | 13yrs
City law firm Stephenson Harwood has become the first UK law firm to enter the Myanmar market after unveiling an association deal with local firm U Tin Yu & Associates. | 13yrs
London law firm Boodle Hatfield has been named the best UK law firm for women in the first Chambers UK Women in Law Awards. | 13yrs
US oil and gas giant Chevron has lambasted an Indonesian court over a 'flawed' trial process after one of its subcontractors was jailed for five years on controversial corruption charges. | 13yrs
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Lawyers representing online file-sharing entrepreneur Kim Dotcom have claimed that the US' prosecution of their client is flawed and has 'frightening' implications for all Internet users. | 13yrs
The proportion of women making partner at the UK's magic circle firms has dipped below 20 per cent, calling into question the firms' desire to reach their diversity targets. | 13yrs
An argument bubbling within the UK's legal profession is close to boiling over after a subsidiary of haulage firm Eddie Stobart became a leading candidate in the bidding process for new criminal legal aid contracts. | 13yrs
The number of new laws introduced by the UK Government rose by 8 per cent last year, bucking the decline of the previous three years and suggesting the Government's red-tape cutting agenda may be slowing. | 13yrs
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation has paid out $2.2 billion to US group Dow Chemical to settle a dispute between the companies over a failed joint venture plan dating back to 2008. | 13yrs
A weekly round-up of in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs
British insurance giant Aviva has begun a major review of its external legal advisors in a shake up which will see the appointment of the group's first global and UK panels. | 13yrs