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International law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton plans to launch Hong Kong practice and wants Norton Rose's China corporate finance head Freeman Chan to lead the new team.

Whistle-blower site Wikileaks has been killed Worldwide. Servers in the United States have killed the site's domain name after they claimed mass attacks. The withdrawal of the domain name implies that the website has been shutdown across the World. A twitter message of the website posted on Friday confirms the reports.

A lawyer, who did not tell his clients that he has been disbarred from practicing and committed fraud on them by forging court documents, has been jailed for criminal contempt.

A Circuit Court judge in Shelbyville, Tennessee has been reprimanded by a disciplinary court for waiting 11 years to rule on a case.

Global law firm Allen & Overy's leading project finance lawyer Catia Tomasetti is set to leave the firm and join Italian law firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo early next year.

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker were spotted on a lunch date together spurring rumours of reconciliation

Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has boosted its tax practice by appointing London-based Colin Hargreaves as its new global head of tax.

A U.S. district court jury has returned a verdict that business software maker SAP AG has stolen software from rival Oracle Corp. and must pay the latter $1.3 billion in damages.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stormed into offices of three large hedge funds in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts and seized documents in a string of raids that is being billed as a crackdown on insider trading by hedge funds, mutual funds and investment bankers.

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the original tapes containing conversations between corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and others pertaining to the 2G spectrum allocation to be handed over to it in a sealed cover after industrialist and chairman of Tata group Ratan Tata moved the apex court on Monday seeking action against those involved in the leakage of tapes containing his conversation with Radia..

Associates of U.S. law firms can look forward to fat year-end bonuses that are ranging from $7,500 to $35,000 though the bonus levels are significantly lower than all-time highs of 2007.

The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a state can be sued for negligence in case of wild animal attacks and cannot raise immunity defenses.

Federal prosecutors have indicted six people in a $32 million Internet collections scam that has snared 80 lawyers in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Alabama and Georgia.

Law firm WilmerHale has named Susan W. Murley and Robert T. Novick as co-managing partners for a three-year term effective from January 1, 2012.

Global law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell has strengthened its Hong Kong office by appointing Paul Chow, a leading M&A lawyer, as a partner and head of the regional office.

British law firm Linklaters has poached on Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Chris Howard by appointing him as a partner for its London office.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a premier New York law firm, has kicked off the BigLaw bonus season by announcing bonuses ranging from $7,500 to $35,000 for its associates who have been employed at the firm prior to September 1, 2010.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is not guilty of inaction but was misguided by the Law Ministry and the bureaucrats and hence delayed in filing replies to the complaints of an opposition lawmaker who sought sanction to prosecute 2G spectrum scam accused Andimuthu Raja, the Attorney General of India has submitted before the Supreme Court.

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A D.C. Superior Court jury on Monday found Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique guilty of murdering federal intern Chandra Levy, bringing to a close a sensational case that had rocked the nation for nine years.

United Continental Holdings Inc. has poached on Sara Lee Corporation's top lawyer Brett J. Hart, who will leave the global consumer-goods company to take charge of the legal affairs of the world's largest air carrier.