A European court has potentially fired the starting gun on landmark litigation over EU relations with Iran by ruling earlier this week that one of country's leading banks was unfairly caught in Brussels-dictated sanctions. | 13yrs
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Two of North America's biggest brewers this week felt the wrath of Washington's monopoly busters as they attempt to cut a major deal. | 13yrs
A well known Chicago patent attorney has riled local regulators in the latest example of lawyers falling into on-line bear traps. | 13yrs
Divorcing couples in England can use religious courts to adjudicate over their splits, following a historic court ruling predicted to have wide implications for common law jurisdictions. | 13yrs
Male and female lawyers advising disgraced doctor Conrad Murray allegedly exchanged blows when visiting their client, who was convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of pop star Michael Jackson two years ago, according to media report from the US. | 13yrs
The Tokyo government is to consider revising legislation governing the Bank of Japan in a bid to boost the country's struggling economy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revealed yesterday. | 13yrs
Swiss food company Nestlé has been found liable in a civil case over the infiltration of campaigning groups, seriously damaging links with activists the company had been desperate to forge. | 13yrs
English legal profession commentators went into overdrive yesterday as one of the country's top 100 law firms announced it had gone bust. | 13yrs
Former partners of defunct New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf dominated the US lateral hiring market last year, boosting partner moves to their highest level in three years. | 13yrs
One of the two leading common law courts in the Persian Gulf free zones has cut a groundbreaking deal with its English counterpart over the recognition of judgments. | 13yrs
A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen | 13yrs
A European court ruling last week boosted US Budweiser's fortunes in the continental lager market, but its Czech counterpart is unlikely to drop the global battle | 13yrs
Two leading Israeli law firms merged to create the third-largest law firm in the country, boasting more than 200 lawyers, 58 of them partners, it was announced earlier this week. | 13yrs
Leading US law firms posted an average 5 per cent increase in gross revenues last year, the largest year-on-year jump since 2008, a survey revealed yesterday. | 13yrs
Leading US law firm WilmerHale is being sued by a former lawyer who accuses the global practice of illegally dismissing her while she was on maternity leave. | 13yrs
A court in the Netherlands has ruled that Anglo-Dutch energy multinational Royal Dutch Shell is partially responsible for polluting Africa's Niger Delta and must pay damages to a local claimant, in a ruling handed down earlier today. | 13yrs
Legal profession representatives in the US are pressing for confidential law firm internal communications in negligence claims to be afforded privileged status as part of a potentially landmark case being heard in Georgia's top court. | 13yrs
US commentators are hailing a move last week by a leading global investment bank as redefining the relationship between corporate compliance and legal departments. | 13yrs
A top government lawyer is jumping ship from Washington's developing world aid agency on the eve of an investigation into contract rigging, according to US media reports this week. | 13yrs
Australian in-house lawyers are tiring of law firms refusing to embarced value-based billing, the head of a Victoria bank's legal department said today. | 13yrs