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Kyleen Cane, founder of Cane Clarke LLP, is one of seven people charged by the US attorney's office in Brooklyn in relation to a scheme to inflate share prices artificially. | 12yrs

Dentons has ended its 12-year relationship with Benti-Enchill Letsa & Ankomah and signed a new one with JLD & MB Legal Consultancy. | 12yrs

The 170-partner law firm Charles Russell Speechlys will be created, with a total of 500 lawyers, on 1 November. | 12yrs

Q2 earnings at Bank of America have fallen 43 per cent as the company put through US$4b in litigation costs. | 12yrs

A group of Greek investors has filed a notice of dispute against the Republic of Cyprus following the Cyprus financial crisis. | 12yrs

Plans to close at least 230 courts in Portugal from 1 September have led to hundreds of lawyers protesting outside the parliament building in Lisbon. | 12yrs

Three former senior managers at failed practice Dewey & LeBoeuf have cited an alleged 'voracious greed' among some partners as a major factor in the firm's collapse. | 12yrs

Warsaw-based Wardynski & Partners is urging the government to introduce new regulations to give some protection to users of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. | 12yrs

Banks which have sent out letters to customers pretending that they were from made-up law firms have been asked to provide more data on the practice to a parliamentary committee. | 12yrs

Big Five South African legal practice Bowman Gilfillan is boosting its transport practice by merging in the three-partner shipping firm Velden Pike Nichols. | 12yrs

A weekly round-up on moves across the globe. | 12yrs

John Michael Farren, a White House lawyer during both Bush administrations, has been convicted of the attempted murder of his ex-wife, a former Skadden Arps lawyer, in 2010. | 12yrs

Law firms with turnover of US$10m or above may be forced to pay tax on income due to them, even if it has not been received, under two tax bills which the ABA is opposing. | 12yrs

A debt collection law firm which works on behalf of JP Morgan and Bank of America has been sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. | 12yrs

Patrick Zheng, head of litigation and arbitration for Clifford Chance in China, is leaving to join Clyde & Co as managing partner of the Beijing office. | 12yrs

A Texas firm has begun a lawsuit against a former client which, according to the firm, made 'disparaging and blatantly false statements' about his relationship with the firm. | 12yrs

Relations between the Chinese nascent legal profession and state enforcement agencies are rising as access is denied to the lawyers to visit clients in some political cases, according to Radio Free Asia. | 12yrs

David Gerger, co-founder of litigation boutique practice Gerger & Clarke, is to become managing partner in the new Houston office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. | 12yrs

As the value of all mid-market deals in the world went up 17per cent US£399b, Jones Day took the number one slot, followed by DLA Piper (in terms of number of deals) and Latham & Watkins (by volume). | 12yrs