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Ireland's new Court of Appeal, due to start hearing cases next year, will lead to a rise in prosecutors fees, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Clare Loftus. | 12yrs

Bank of America is coming under pressure to settle a US $6 billion compensation demand from the Federal Housing Finance Agency after JP Morgan agreed to pay a record US $4 billion to the regulator. | 12yrs

Erick Schneiderman, the New York Attorney-General, has described some practices for alerting the market to new financial information as being 'Insider Trading 2.0'. | 12yrs

Four out of five businesses expect to suffer 'material losses' as a result of legal risks, according to a survey of senior personnel by Berwin Leighton Paisner. | 12yrs

Linklaters is losing the two partners who run its private equity team, Ian Bagshaw and Richard Youle, after a combined 13 years of partnership, to White & Case. | 12yrs

Litigation costs at Bank of America have increased to USD1.1 billion dollars in its third quarter results, according to data released by bank. | 12yrs

A bill to merge the two sides of the Russian court system - general courts and arbitration courts - runs the danger of creating chaos between now and spring. | 12yrs

London arbitration chambers Fountain Court is in the early stages of evaluating whether to follow a handful of other sets to Singapore to be near the International Arbitration Centre. | 12yrs

Lawyers in UK organisations should be ready to report what their companies are doing to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), according to its new co-head of bribery and corruption. | 12yrs

Sir Hector Sants, head of compliance and government and regulatory relations at Barclays Bank, is taking leave to recover from 'exhaustion and stress' after nine months in the job. | 12yrs

The 30,000-strong Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has appointed a specialist data management company, Modus, as its premier e-discovery alliance partner. | 12yrs

Silicon Valley-based 700-lawyer firm Cooley is taking on 54 lawyers from Dow Lohnes to become a Top 30 Washington firm. | 12yrs

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Mary Jo White has raised the prospect that companies could be required to send less information to investors who may be struggling with 'information overload'. | 12yrs

The British High Commissioner to Zambia, James Thornton, has said that there is 'no point' in judges continuing to wear wigs and robes. | 12yrs

Raff & Becker has earned millions of dollars of fees for an appointment that was expected to last three years in 1983 but is now into its fourth decade. | 12yrs

Brian S Lichter has been appointed a partner in the Davis Polk & Wardwell real estate team, having transferred over from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. | 12yrs

Argentina accounts for more than 11 per cent of disputes being heard at the World's Bank tribunal, the International Court for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. | 12yrs

The largest bank in the US, JP Morgan Chase, has set aside US$23 billion in its legal reserve and shown a quarterly loss for the first time in nine years. | 12yrs

One of the world's most controversial trials is due to start on Tuesday when Steve Donziger, who won a US$19 billion compensation victory for inhabitants of the Amazon, will be accused of fraud. | 12yrs