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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.California) of the Senate Intelligence Committee is now pushing for a renewed raft of legislation that would tighten scrutiny of social media platforms to alert law enforcement to online extremist activity. | 10yrs

The family behind Forbes Media is suing Hong Kong investors Integrated Whale Media Investments over an alleged breach of payment for a controlling stake that was purchased by IWMI last year. | 10yrs

Paul Motion, partner in Glasgow and Edinburgh firm bto, is making two appearances in his own show, 'Phoney or False Reviews Online - What Can I Do?', at the Edinburgh Fringe theatre festival. | 10yrs

Executives at Universal Music Group have been recorded saying that 'the business has been controlled by lawyers for a long time' in a call released by entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, with whom the Group had been in litigation. | 10yrs

The pop music critic at the Financial Times has identified a possible turning point in the portrayal of the professions by Rihanna's seven-minute video 'Bitch Better Have My Money', which features an accountant figure living like a rock star. | 10yrs

The manuscript of 'Go Set a Watchman' by Harper Lee - a sequel to 'How to kill a mockingbird' - lay in a bank safe deposit in Alabama for three years until Ms Lee's lawyer went through the box and realised its significance. | 10yrs

Ellen Pao, who lost her employment discrimination claim against venture capital company Kleiner Perkins, has continued to have a difficult year - resigning from her next employer, Reddit, after 200,000 people signed a petition seeking her removal. | 10yrs

Mark Cuban, the sports-to-media billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has said that he hates dealing with lawyers and that they are 'a huge drain on productivity' - but he calls his own lawyer 'my Satan...a good friend'. | 11yrs

Vadim Prokhorov, lawyer to the family of assassinated Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, has revealed that the opposition leader received threats 'several months ago' and says his death might be connected to events in Ukraine. | 11yrs

Some 30 employees and business contacts were taken out for a meal, at an average of US$10,000 a head, after its co-founder won $1m at Las Vegas and just as Paul Weiss M&A and media lawyer James Schwab left the firm to join Vice Media as co-president. | 11yrs

Tonja Carter, the lawyer who found Harper Lee's 50-year old sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' has been replying to suggestions that she exploited the 88-year old author by getting the new discovery published against the real wishes of Ms Lee. | 11yrs

Chris Hannay and his son Daniel have been accused of contempt of court by the man they are suing for defamation in a A$1.2m suit - Campbell Newman, the premier of Queensland. | 11yrs

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, an expert in civil liberties and blasphemy laws, has predicted that a widespread hostility to depiction of the prophet among Muslims will reduce despite the concerns expressed over French magazine Charlie Hebdo. | 11yrs

Californian lawyer bloggers will come under scrutiny from the Bar if they use their blogs to advertise their wares. | 11yrs

The lawyer who has acted for the Charlie Hebdo magazine for 23 years is continuing to take a prominent role in announcing the plans of the surviving journalists for the satirical weekly. | 11yrs

A 46-year old media and privacy lawyer, who has been cited as one of the 15 most powerful lawyers in France, is acting for magazine Charlie Hebdo - and has been representing them for the last 23 years. | 11yrs

Professor Alan Dershowitz has declared himself to be thrilled to have a chance to litigate his case after two lawyers sued him for defamation in connection to accusations about the Harvard professor and Prince Andrew. | 11yrs

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has vowed to begin disbarment proceedings against the lawyers who have made claims about him and Prince Andrew - and he is also threatening a possible defamation action. | 11yrs

UK politician Emily Thornberry's career-costing tweet came as a shocking reminder of the pervading naievety around social media. Bernadette John reports on how cautious luxury companies are embracing social media. | 11yrs