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In a case of claim and counter claim, Robert Lloyd, former GC at Jaguar Mining faces a lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duty and fraud. | 12yrs

Slaughter and May has collaborated with Carillion Advice Services (CAS) to outsource some of its work from Vodafone, and looks set to offer the arrangement more widely to other clients. | 12yrs

Three partners and twenty other lawyers who specialise in a statutory compensation insurance scheme for Australian workers are switching over to join the Sydney office of HWL. | 12yrs

Shanghai-based, 32-lawyer firm AllBright is opening a Hong Kong office on November 15 in association with Stevenson Wong & Co. | 12yrs

Google and Facebook could be among the US companies that stand to benefit if German proposals to include data protection rules in planned US-EU trade agreements are taken on. | 12yrs

The number of claims filed to the London Commercial Court has risen 23 per cent over the last 12 months as lawyers rush to beat a six-year deadline in order to bring claims relating to the global financial crisis. | 12yrs

Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson is to pay over US$2.2bn as a settlement with federal and state authorities for kickbacks and other misdemeanours over the last ten years. | 12yrs

The top real estate lawyer in the SJ Berwin London side of the King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin merger, David Ryland, has gone to join Paul Hastings only four days after the global merger took place. | 12yrs

The attempts of a microbiologist to poison her husband's lover are to set leading case law on the ability of the US president to make agreements with foreign powers. | 12yrs

The former Chicago head of now defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist could face up to 58 years in prison over a US $7 billion deceit. | 12yrs

Jackson Kelly PLLC, a leading law firm representing mining companies, has been accused of having 'withheld potentially relevant evidence' in 11 cases relating to medical claims by miners. | 12yrs

Ropes & Gray is putting more emphasis on the Asian side of its M&A practice as James Lidbury moves his office, including some associates, from Chicago to Hong Kong. | 12yrs

The appointment of liquidators to legal and other professional firms has increased 15 per cent in the UK, comparing Q3 2013 with the same period in 2012. | 12yrs

Barrick Gold, already hit by a slump in its share price and a shareholder revolt, is suspending work on a flagship mine in Chile after a raft of legal problems. | 12yrs

Australian law firm Gadens Lawyers has been ordered to pay A$4.97 m in damages, with legal costs and interest, to a well-known client. | 12yrs

Russian judges have just been given a five per cent pay rise as President Vladimir Putin seeks to solve problems of judicial dissatisfaction which result in as many as 90 per cent of court personnel leaving their posts each year. | 12yrs

Barclays Bank has admitted that it has 'received enquiries from certain…authorities related to their particular investigations' on foreign exchange trading. | 12yrs

Clyde & Co is the first international law firm to get approval to open up in south west China. | 12yrs

Rabobank has settled for US1.06 billion with regulators in the US, UK and the Netherlands, surprising many observers with the size of the payment. | 12yrs