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A US federal judge has ruled that previously undisclosed communications regarding a former University of Iowa general counsel and his handling of a sexual assault case should be made public. | 14yrs

The former chief information officer at Chicago-headquartered law firm Mayer Brown was charged yesterday with defrauding the global practice of at least $850,000. | 14yrs

Three of the six publishers accused of price-fixing in the US e-book market have agreed a settlement of $69 million -- but the deal will result in only small returns to consumers across America. | 14yrs

Police yesterday arrested News International's former legal advisor Tom Crone in connection with Britain's ongoing 'phone hacking scandal. | 14yrs

With governments across the world eager to sniff out missing tax revenues and the wealth management sector evolving rapidly, specialist lawyers need to take a world view, suggest Marnin Michaels and Marie-Thérèse Yates | 14yrs

The law firm of the lawyer who conducted a recent damning enquiry into sexual abuses at a top US college football programme is to merge with leading Philadelphia-based national practice Pepper Hamilton. | 14yrs

Australian lawyers are increasingly convinced that the local market has become saturated with global players and that the recent merger mania involving English and US firms has run its course. | 14yrs

The dog days of summer in the northern hemisphere normally witness little by way of legal profession press coverage -- but this month has been very lively. | 14yrs

Kuwaiti investment firm National Industries Group (NIG) has claimed that the Carlyle Group sold it a fixed income fund in 2006 without a proper licence, demonstrating the potholes that exist for US and European private equity firms in the area. | 14yrs

Leading US lawyers have refused attempts to extinguish the discussion of non-lawyer ownership of firms across the country's many jurisdictions. | 14yrs

Virgin Trains has instructed London-based global law firm Herbert Smith to challenge the UK government in court following minsters' decision to award the West Coast main line franchise to rival operator FirstGroup, the company announced yesterday. | 14yrs

Delegates at this week's Republican Party convention have fiercely criticised a Washington DC-based lawyer for pushing through rule changes that would benefit presidential candidate Mitt Romney if he ousted Barack Obama and sought re-election. | 14yrs

International law firm Holland & Knight has agreed to pay £25 million to settle a claim from investors who lost money through convicted Ponzi scheme runner Arthur Nadal. | 14yrs

London-headquartered Addleshaw Goddard has confirmed it is to cut 24 fee-earner positions following the second round of redundancies at the law firm in little more than a year. | 14yrs

A former client of New York-based Wilk Auslander is suing the law firm in federal court for malpractice, citing a 'massive overbilling for needless work' stemming from the defence of several securities class actions. | 14yrs

Two leading legal sector continuing education players have cut a deal for the provision of on-line services to lawyers, it was announced this week. | 14yrs

Indonesia's deputy law and human rights minister has apologised to the legal profession after a Twitter message in which he likened lawyers who defend those accused of corruption with corruption itself. | 14yrs

The system of educating and training English lawyers needs reforming to give students the skills to survive in an evolving legal marketplace, an on-going review suggests this week. | 14yrs

The number of internet domain name dispute cases handled by international adjudicators has rocketed over the last year, according to recent data. | 14yrs