Unprecedented pressure on UK law firms has caused the Solicitors' Regulatory Authority to place hundreds of firms under supervision as they prepare for more financial hardship this year. | 13yrs
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The 'Happy Birthday' song, heard on that special day once a year, may no longer be music to your ears. | 13yrs
Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi and his father Jorge are to appear before a Spanish court for questioning over alleged tax fraud. | 13yrs
Legal professionals in Vietnam have reacted angrily after the team representing a prominent dissident lawyer detained on tax evasion charges was refused access to court documents ahead of a trial. | 13yrs
A plan to clamp down on reckless London bankers with threats of prison time may fail to have any real effect, city lawyers have claimed. | 13yrs
New research has revealed businesses are not taking as much care to safeguard intellectual property online compared to how they protect assets offline. | 13yrs
Fashion label partners Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been convicted of tax evasion and face a suspended jail sentence of a year and eight months and a fine of €500,000 each, a Milan court ruled. | 13yrs
Lawyers representing the former chief executive of helicopter design company AgustaWestland have asked an Italian court to call India's Defence Minister as a witness in the opening exchanges of its corruption trial. | 13yrs
UK fraud enforcers have charged key Libor trader Tom Hayes in the first criminal case seeking justice for his involvement in rigging the London interbank lending rate. | 13yrs
Professional services giant Deloitte has agreed to a landmark one-year suspension from soliciting new consulting work in New York and will also pay $10 million to the state following a widespread clampdown on independent consulting firms. | 13yrs
United Technologies Corp has been instructed to pay a total of $473 million plus interest as reimbursement for false charges to gain US Air Force jet engine contracts in the 1980s. | 13yrs
Global law firm Pinsent Masons has reported a five per cent increase in turnover following its merger with one of Scotland's largest law firms. | 13yrs
The Serious Fraud office (SFO) looks set to prosecute ex-UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for alleged criminal fraud charges over Libor manipulation in the UK, according to reports. | 13yrs
Korea is the latest country to set up an arbitration centre with the launch of the Seoul International Dispute Resolution Center. | 13yrs
Australian lawyers are looking to consolidation in the financial services sector to beef up a declining mergers and acquisitions market as doom and gloom hits the country. | 13yrs
A German court has questioned a key European Central Bank (ECB) programme which was put together to deal with the European debt crisis. | 13yrs
Portugese law firm PMLJ has set up a Private Wealth team to advise private clients. | 13yrs
A female heir may not be allowed to inherit the British throne, following a legal challenge in Canada. | 13yrs
Middle East expansion is on the cards for global law firms. | 13yrs
The head of the Swiss Bar Association has slammed a secret deal between Bern and Washington over Swiss banks' alleged complicity in tax evasion by Americans. | 13yrs