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Australia's in-house lawyers risk of losing personal assets to pay legal fees incurred when their employers lose battles with the country's corporate regulator, a leading law firm practitioner has warned. | 14yrs

New York's top financial regulator has launched an assault on the legal department of Standard Chartered, claiming that the London-headquartered bank evaded regulations and hid $250 billion of transactions tied to Iran. | 14yrs

India's Competition Commission (CCI) has launched an investigation into Californian search engine giant Google following allegations of anti-competitive practices in the country. | 14yrs

Guernsey has introduced a new competition law, bringing the regime more into line with its Channel Island neighbour, Jersey. But, write Andy Lowe and Sara Johns, there are some crucial differences | 14yrs

A move to extend 'disclosure' in Dutch law does not go as far as Anglo-Saxan law. Whether this is a good move depends on what side one is on, argues Carel van Lynden | 14yrs

South Korean technology giant Samsung has suffered an embarrassing blow in its high-profile patent showdown with Californian rival Apple, after one of its lawyers admitted she did not have the required advocacy rights paperwork for the court. | 14yrs

Standard Chartered is weighing up a counterclaim against the New York authorities that have charged the British global bank with sanctions-busting and laundering money for Iran. | 14yrs

London-based magic circle firm Slaughter and May and New York white shoe practice Sullivan & Cromwell have become the latest lawyers to profit from the recent string of banking scandals. | 14yrs

A leading academic is to investigate allegations of 'institutional racism' at the body that regulates England's 115,000 practising solicitors. | 14yrs

The Shanghai and Shenzhen branches of China's main arbitration body have been suspended in an on-going dispute between rival factions, casting worrying doubt over existing investor contracts. | 14yrs

A federal judge has sanctioned Miami-based law firm Greenberg Traurig and client TD Bank after 'wilfully' mishandling evidence in a Ponzi scheme case earlier this year. | 14yrs

A California judge has ordered an ex-partner to resolve a compensation issue with his former practice through arbitration. | 14yrs

General damages in the majority of UK civil litigation cases will increase by 10 per cent next year following confirmation from the appeal court. | 14yrs

A Los Angeles law firm has fallen into the crosshairs of a US consumer watchdog as the agency gears up for its first civil enforcement action in federal court. | 14yrs

London-headquartered international shipping specialist law firm Ince & Co it is to open an office in Beijing, it's third in China, the practice announced yesterday. | 14yrs

Law firm starting salaries in the US have nosedived recently -- tumbling by a staggering 35 per cent compared with three years ago. | 14yrs

Lynette Rowe -- who was born without arms and legs -- has been offered more than AU$1 million by multi-national corporation Diageo as compensation for the effects of thalidomide. | 14yrs

Singapore's stock exchange is firming up its procedures for companies aiming to list on its main market, following a wave of accounting scandals involving small, listed Chinese firms. | 14yrs

Andrew Munro and Jane Pearce of Ogier Fund Services in Guernsey and Jersey explain how the fund administrator's role has evolved and the international legislation facing the industry. | 14yrs