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English and US global law firms may be tripping over each other in a bid to exploit recently liberalised legal markets in East Asia, but the path to commercial success could be littered with human rights potholes, campaigners warned last week. | 13yrs

British regulators today slapped Switzerland's biggest bank with a £30 million fine following the fraud conviction of a rogue trader last week. | 13yrs

A group of Europe's most influential and muscular independent law firms is forming an alliance to challenge the power and continuing incursions of UK and US firms on the continent. | 13yrs

Bankrupt New York law firm wraps up a Thanksgiving gift for its creditors, but retired partners think the deal is a turkey | 13yrs

British ministers granted Europe's biggest law school university status yesterday, in a move the academics hope will boost the institution's marketability in the booming Far East markets. | 13yrs

Vast differences in remuneration rates in the Indian legal profession were exposed earlier this week by a survey highlighting large gaps between the top commercial law firms and the rest of the sector. | 13yrs

England's most establishment law firm joined two other practices claiming to be leading innovators at the top of a client satisfaction survey released today. | 13yrs

Lazy or indifferent lawyers are costing their own legal practices millions annually and are damaging the wider environment by ignoring easily implemented green policies, researchers claimed today. | 13yrs

Ex-US Marine lieutenant general and lawyer Michael Mori is to challenge an Australian government decision to extradite former Serb paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic for war crimes. | 13yrs

Courts are not looking kindly on companies unable to locate important data | 13yrs

The story of a successful campaign for racial equality in the employment practices at the top level of US football -- and the crucial role played by two lawyers | 13yrs

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

Nationality should not be a factor in selecting members for Hong Kong's top court, a leading local former judge has said in an attempt to head off pressure from mainland China. | 13yrs

A former Somali security chief was found guilty this week of torturing a leading human rights advocate and constitutional law professor in a landmark case that saw a global US law firm acting for the victim. | 13yrs

San Francisco city officials have narrowly voted in favour of a nudity ban in public places, ending a hostile legal dispute with a group of nudists. | 13yrs

England's ruby union authorities saw off an appeal by ticketing web site Viagogo at the Supreme Court in London yesterday, securing an important precedent for sport governing bodies to control ticketing policies. | 13yrs

One of the world's biggest law firms -- Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie -- has become the latest global practice to announce it has applied to open an office in Korea. | 13yrs

Australia is upping the ante in an increasingly competitive field, says Doug Jones | 13yrs

British Columbia's law firms are attempting to boost the retention of female lawyers on their books following recent evidence suggesting that within the first 10 years of qualification women are far more likely to leave the profession than males. | 13yrs