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The eurozone may be in crisis, but that doesn't mean the continent's business law firms will drown en masse. Alison Hook argues that routes to success still exist | 14yrs

Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $202 million to settle claims that it misled a US government housing agency to profit from the resale of mortgages, potentially causing thousands of Americans to face defaulting or eviction. | 14yrs

Facebook's $1 billion purchase of photo-sharing application Instagram is being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission, potentially postponing the deal's close beyond the forecasted second quarter. | 14yrs

A major investigation into the sale of medical drugs in India has unearthed collusion between the country's regulator and global pharmaceutical companies, according to a parliamentary committee. | 14yrs

More than 100 bankers won a London High Court claim for £42 million in unpaid bonuses against Germany's second-biggest bank, with at least five of the claimants set to pocket more than £1m each. | 14yrs

Fortune 500 telecommunications company América Móvil -- owned by the Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim -- has side-stepped a potential $1billion fine from regulators who accused the company of abusing its position to eliminate competition. | 14yrs

The Eurozone remains troubled by the impact of the debt crisis. However, levels of foreign direct investment in Ireland remain robust. Stanley Watson and Robert O'Shea report | 14yrs

Californian technology giant Oracle has drawn first blood in a three-part copyright court battle against Silicon Valley rival Google, in a legal claim valued at around $1 billion. | 14yrs

A unified specialist European court will hinder, rather than help, the enforcement of EU patents, according to an influential group of British MPs. | 14yrs

Good economic climates hide many flaws in global law firms and poor leadership and inept management often go unnoticed in those favourable times. But things are very different when times are tough, says Professor Graham Jones. | 14yrs

France is tentatively looking at third party funding but there is still some way to go, says Marie Danis of Paris law firm August & Debouzy. | 14yrs

Anglo-US international law firm DLA Piper has become the latest firm to announce its 2012 promotions, and has done so with a bang -- adding no fewer than 58 lawyers to the firm's global partnership. | 14yrs

A leading player with the New Orleans Saints has been suspended without pay for the entire 2012 US football season after the sport's governing body unleashed its latest punishments for the so-called bounty payments scandal. | 14yrs

Chen Guangcheng - the so called Chinese barefoot lawyer - has left the US embassy in Beijing for medical treatment in a local hospital, media reports claimed today. | 14yrs

Two Italian prosecutors who staked their reputations on securing a life sentence for US student Amanda Knox after claiming she killed Briton Meredith Kercher are now themselves being investigated over a video they put to jurors during the trial. | 14yrs

Greater challenges mean law firms need a new approach towards strategy and implementation. But what will that be? Belden Menkus and Marc Bartel discuss what needs to be done. | 14yrs

With a long summer of festive activities on the horizon, culminating with the Olympics, Claus Andersen muses over the impact of last year's UK Bribery Act and where the limits lie on corporate hospitality | 14yrs

A database designed to illuminate the increasingly murky world of US law degrees has been launched in a bid to help students sift through the vast array of courses on offer. | 14yrs

American law firms Sidley Austin, Cooley and Davis Polk have topped the charts in a recent legal advisor review table, which also revealed an increase in the debt and equity capital markets. | 14yrs