Four international banks were found guilty of fraud and fined a €1 million each by a Milan judge last week in a landmark ruling over complex interest rate swap deals cut during the run-up to the global financial crisis. | 13yrs
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Internet giant Google has been given until January to address EU suspicions that its search engine promotes its own products over those of its rivals. | 13yrs
Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co yesterday agreed to fork out almost $30 million to settle charges that it violated American fraud-busting legislation. | 13yrs
New York Law School has successfully dismissed a class action law suit claiming the institution misled potential students about graduates' success in finding legal jobs. | 13yrs
German government lawyers were this week reported to be poring over Ryanair records as allegations swirled around the airline that it dodged millions of pounds of air traffic control charges by falsifying take-off weight information. | 13yrs
A raft of lawyers is licking their lips at the prospect of representing those senior executives at technology giant Hewlett-Packard who played key roles in the bungled purchase of British software firm Autonomy. | 13yrs
International organisations and foreign governments must pinpoint support for reforms in Burma, a leading group of human rights lawyers has said in advance of a major report on legal structures in the southeast Asian country. | 13yrs
Legal profession regulators in England are to shine a spotlight on in-house lawyers in a bid to get to grips with those working in the sector. | 13yrs
Legal action swirling around the London interest rate scandal is set to engulf a horde of bankers once a leading Swiss player cuts a deal with various international authorities, media reports suggest today. | 13yrs
Fresh allegations of misconduct over a bond offering were levelled today at three former leaders of now-defunct New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. | 13yrs
Executives at reputedly the world's largest gold mining company may soon be forced to respond to allegations of falsifying information after a Chilean lawyer filed proceedings over a large mining development. | 13yrs
High court litigation in India is more likely to end in the Supreme Court in states geographically nearer to the country's capital, New Delhi, a research paper has revealed. | 13yrs
China has overtaken the US as the world jurisdiction filing the most patent applications, according to UN figures released this week. | 13yrs
Use of English alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has tumbled by more than 20 per cent over the last three years, a survey released today claims. | 13yrs
Lawyers are predicting an increasingly robust approach from US financial services prosecutors following record-breaking settlements with two global banks over money laundering and sanctions busting. | 13yrs
Qatar's authorities moved last week to enhance the emirate's position in the global financial market by authorising measures to simplify rules and create a single umbrella regulator. | 13yrs
A former Barclays Bank employee has been fined after unlawfully accessing statements belonging to her partner's ex-wife, triggering questions over personal information storage, access and abuse. | 13yrs
America's financial services watchdog is probing allegations that one of Germany's leading banks covered up massive securities portfolio losses after the global markets nosedived four years ago, media reports suggest this week. | 13yrs
How many Scrabble points would a player bag for the phrase 'thrown out of court'? | 13yrs
Canadian government moves to implement investor-protection agreements with two of the world's three largest economies will trigger a boom in global arbitration against Ottawa, analysts predict. | 13yrs