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Black male prisoners spend more time behind bars than white male prisoners even though they are being locked up for similar crimes, a US Sentencing Commission report has revealed. | 13yrs

Allen & Overy has topped the latest capital markets league table for the first half of 2013. | 13yrs

Global law firm Baker & McKenzie is set to bolster its Spanish practice in Madrid by hiring a team of lawyers from Spanish law firm Ramón y Cajal. | 13yrs

Litigation is on the up, with one in three corporates reporting an increased number of legal disputes - leading to a higher legal spend on litigation over the past 12 months. | 13yrs

Two more city brokers have been charged over the Libor scandal. Terry Farr and James Gilmour, who previously worked at interdealer broker RP Martin, have now been charged by the City of London Police. | 13yrs

US firm Baker Botts has snatched an eight partner Fulbright team from Dubai following the June merger of the UK's Norton Rose and US law firm Fulbright & Jaworski. | 13yrs

Insurance company Direct Line Group is to enter the legal world, taking advantage of the alternative business structure arrangements in the UK. | 13yrs

Lawyers contribute least of all professions to society and their public perception is getting worse, according to a new US poll. | 13yrs

BP is challenging payouts to US law firms which have won large compensation awards in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. | 13yrs

Private shipping companies could be increasingly caught in the middle as they seek to rescue refugees in dangerous boats. | 13yrs

China has recently launched three separate anti-trust investigations into foreign companies, prompting speculation that the moves are part of a pattern. | 13yrs

Germany is upping the stakes on piracy whilst France has changed direction. | 13yrs

Western governments are under pressure to take a tough stance with Russia over the case of the dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who has just been condemned for tax evasion. | 13yrs

GlaxoSmithKline's legal counsel in China is under house arrest and constant surveillance, following accusations against the company of bribery and evasion of the tax laws. | 13yrs

Thai business leaders are calling on the government to take action which would lead to the country being dropped from the watch list of the Financial Action Task Force. | 13yrs

The allegations and debates surrounding corporate tax avoidance have flared up once more in the light of German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble's comments on the Patent Box tax break scheme. | 13yrs

The fast-track timetable being used to prosecute Italian businessman and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi could put off other people doing business in Italy. | 13yrs

A $5 billion civil fraud suit against Standard & Poor's looks likely to proceed despite attempts by the company to get the proceedings stopped. | 13yrs

Apple immediately announced its decision to appeal after a New York federal judge ruled that the IT giant had played a crucial role in a conspiracy to raise the retail price of e-books. | 13yrs