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Compensation claims for clinical negligence have gone through the roof, with the head of the UK's Medical Defence Union claiming the rise of legal action is 'unmatched' in the company's 126-year history. | 14yrs

The senior partner at one of the world's biggest law firms is to chair a new board overseeing a high-profile legal profession social mobility programme. | 14yrs

The owner of a web site providing links to illegally copied films and television shows has been sentenced to four years in a British prison. | 14yrs

One of the US's most important commercial jurisdictions has clarified its corporate law to allow post-merger legal actions in cases of fraud or fundamental unfairness. | 14yrs

Australia's in-house lawyers risk of losing personal assets to pay legal fees incurred when their employers lose battles with the country's corporate regulator, a leading law firm practitioner has warned. | 14yrs

New York's top financial regulator has launched an assault on the legal department of Standard Chartered, claiming that the London-headquartered bank evaded regulations and hid $250 billion of transactions tied to Iran. | 14yrs

Women lawyers working for corporations are making significantly more professional progress than their private practice counterparts, recent research illustrates. | 14yrs

Struggling Yahoo appoints a new general counsel to go with its fifth chief executive in as many years, while one lawyer moves from fish to cows to fowl | 14yrs

The government of India's second largest state has announced it will consider creating laws to protect lawyers, as well as introducing measures to assist entrants into the legal profession. | 14yrs

India's Competition Commission (CCI) has launched an investigation into Californian search engine giant Google following allegations of anti-competitive practices in the country. | 14yrs

A pay-packet battle waged between Swiss security systems company Tyco International and its former chief executive Dennis Kozlowski has ended after almost 10 years of litigation. | 14yrs

Sydney-based law firm Ryan Lawyers is the latest overseas player to hit the Singapore legal scene, opening an office in the city-state and recruiting former Marriott senior counsel Tien Gui Koh as practice director. | 14yrs

A leading international law firm committed an 'egregious' ethical violation while acting for claimants in a $49 million action against a bar finals cramming organisation, according to a US court. | 14yrs

The proposed mechanism for boosting financial assistance to struggling eurozone economies received a fresh blow yesterday as a challenge was launched in the German Constitutional Court. | 14yrs

Guernsey has introduced a new competition law, bringing the regime more into line with its Channel Island neighbour, Jersey. But, write Andy Lowe and Sara Johns, there are some crucial differences | 14yrs

A move to extend 'disclosure' in Dutch law does not go as far as Anglo-Saxan law. Whether this is a good move depends on what side one is on, argues Carel van Lynden | 14yrs

Ex-Collyer Bristow partner Gary Withey has applied to join the case brought by Rangers Football Club against the London-based law firm as a defendant. | 14yrs

London-headquartered international law firm Eversheds is expecting the official nod to open an office in Beijing later this year. | 14yrs

South Korean technology giant Samsung has suffered an embarrassing blow in its high-profile patent showdown with Californian rival Apple, after one of its lawyers admitted she did not have the required advocacy rights paperwork for the court. | 14yrs