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An anonymous lawyer has told ABC 10 News how a hacker transferred US$289,000 from his account to a Chinese bank shortly after clicking on the attachment in an email and then receiving a call that purported to be from his bank. | 11yrs

The secret recording by the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ of privileged conversations between lawyers and clients is a breach of human rights law, according to an unexpected government admission - and rectification work is urgently taking place as a result. | 11yrs

Senior judges are behind a proposal from Professor Richard Susskind to set up swifter, relatively inexpensive online courts for civil disputes below the level of £25,000. | 11yrs

The computer science department at the University of Liverpool is looking at the potential for case analysis by artificial intelligence, using 'automated reasoning' to spot the winning arguments in legal cases. | 11yrs

Freshfields and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson are giving free advice to start-up entrepreneurs taking a 12-week programme with a new pro bono advice organisation called Cyber London. | 11yrs

DLA Piper is launching a cybersecurity product - CyberTrak- though an IT subsidiary in order to help multinational energy, finance and other organisations comply with different regulatory regimes. | 11yrs

The IT giant has just bought Equivio, the Israel-based business, giving it a stronger footing in the market for software that reads and sort legal documents. | 11yrs

With over half of EU drivers willing to have a 'connected car', one which transmits and receives data while being driven, legal issues about privacy and transparency are coming to the fore. | 11yrs

MI6, the UK's external security body, has given details of its written policy which covers how staff should deal with material covered by legal privilege - including exchanges between lawyers and their clients. | 11yrs

The former head of Morrison & Foerster in London, Justin Stock, has been appointed head of the new 55-lawyer office opened by California-based Cooley in Old Broad Street in the City of London. | 11yrs

A quarter of the Fortune 500 and all of the Am Law 200 are using legal management solutions - such as matter and e-billing management - from the Austin-based company, according to a recent statement from the business. | 11yrs

The fixed fee law firm, Riverview Law, is entering into a 'knowledge transfer partnership' with Liverpool University in order to develop areas such as network analysis and data mining in its work. | 11yrs

A former US federal cyber crimes prosecutor puts at US$100m the cost to Sony of contractual breaches over restricting the release of 'The Interview' film - as well as another $1m for the advice of lawyers and forensic investigators. | 11yrs

All businesses, not just those in the technology field, need to be supervising cyber security issues at board level, says Fried Frank partner David Hennes. | 11yrs

An Atlanta court is warning users of its electronic filing system that a pop-up which claims to be a bankruptcy survey linked to its site is actually a virus. | 11yrs

Lexis Nexis Pacific has announced a partnership with GlobalX which will help improve workflow processes and improve efficiency for its practice management clients in law firms. | 11yrs

An EU initiative to help the development of co-operation and information-sharing between organisations must ensure that businesses know how they can collaborate, according to Pinsent Masons. | 11yrs

Four UK law firms have recently lost £2m between them to scammers who tricked them into disclosing bank security data over the phone. | 11yrs

The newly-floated Chinese company Alibaba may grow its legal team by a quarter, according to Legal Week. | 11yrs