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The US bank reporting season is underway - with JP Morgan posting a 12 per cent rise in net income despite provisioning another hefty sum against legal and regulatory costs. | 11yrs

Peter Gray, the Dubai-based partner who has been suspended by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, saw his application to appeal against a ruling that he deliberately misled the court dismissed in 15 minutes yesterday. | 11yrs

The European Commission is to decide 'very soon' as to whether, after a five year history, it will bring anti trust charges against Google in what would be the most significant, highly-charged case against a US business. | 11yrs

A group of 26 former partners in failed UK firm Halliwells, being pursued for millions by the liquidator, has switched legal teams - leaving Irwin Mitchell for TLT, the high-tech, high volume firm that acts as an outsourcer for Freshfields. | 11yrs

Judge Flávio Roberto de Souza has been charged with embezzlement and accused of illicitly taking US$360,000 last year which was used to buy a bullet proof Land Rover and a flat in Rio de Janeiro - throwing the trial into chaos. | 11yrs

Already under pressure in the UK and EU over the lawfulness of their tax advice, the top accountants are being questioned by an Australian Senate inquiry on tax avoidance - as part of government moves to close off loopholes for tax evasion. | 11yrs

RSA - the UK's 11th largest insurer and Europe's 38th biggest - is offering advocacy, litigation, probate and the administration of oaths through a legal services wing this month. | 11yrs

The next financial crisis could be 'more volatile' than the last one because regulators have hamstrung the banks and made it less likely that the strong ones would take over weakened rivals again, JP Morgan's chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has said. | 11yrs

Ellen Pao, the venture capitalist who used to work at Cravath Swaine, has spoken out against sexism in the venture capital industry after losing her discrimination claim against former employer Kleiner Perkins. | 11yrs

Jose Ramon Gonzalez became Chief Legal Officer of QBE North America a year ago. | 11yrs

Two insurance litigators have joined Foran Glennon, the fast-expanding US practice, to open its first base abroad. | 11yrs

EU measures to block Chinese imports of cheap goods could be in breach of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules if they continue after December 2016, according to Luis Romero Requena, head of the European Commission's Legal Service. | 11yrs

The embroiled Gibson Dunn partner Peter Gray is one of three men accused by the lawyer who used to be head of Leeds United FC. | 11yrs

Structure Tone, a leading US building company, has pleaded guilty to corruption charges in relation to the defrauding of numerous famous businesses including Proskauer Rose. | 11yrs

The head of the corporate practice and a fellow partner, both based in Baltimore, stood down after a client filed a US$10m malpractice suit, claiming that the two asked her to start paying her monthly retainer into a company owned by them. | 11yrs

A decade-long rise in the use of arbitration and arbitration specialists is only going to increase, pushed up by trends in globalisation, according to the head of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Australia. | 11yrs

Regulatory fines and costs are one of the excuses that 'universal banks' are giving for continuing poor results - when the truth is that they need to become more efficient and restructure, according to an analysis by the Financial Times. | 11yrs

Citigroup has been apologising to law firms after Fried Frank and Covington & Burling were named as being subject to the attentions of hackers - even though there were no breaches of the firms' networks or client data in the instances cited. | 11yrs

Aviation lawyers and insurance experts predict that Lufthansa is likely to accept claims without much resistance when they are put in by the families who were bereaved in last week's apparent suicide and homicide by the pilot of a passenger plane. | 11yrs