Alstom, the French industrial group, has agreed to pay US$772m as a fine - a sum which will be the largest penalty paid by a business to the department for foreign bribery. | 9yrs

Luke Grosser, who forged academic achievements, records and employment experience and used them to gain a summer placement at Minter Ellison, has been barred from practising until 2022. | 9yrs

Employees were given just half an hour to clear their desks and leave the office last year when the UK firm was closed down, an employment tribunal in Birmingham has been told. | 9yrs

A team of three tax partners which used to work together at PwC have now made another move together, leaving Maddocks for Minter Ellison in Australia. | 9yrs

The French personal data authority has used publicity as a weapon Against Apple Retail France, says Laurent Guardelli & Aurélie Klein of Coblence & Associés. | 9yrs

A report on the collapse of Tods Murray in October shows that its turnover was half its 2006 peak and that fixed costs on an office in Edinburgh Quay meant that it struggled to pay its bills. | 9yrs

Lord Goldsmith, the former British attorney general and a former member of the Fifa independent governance committee, has backed the US lawyer Michael J Garcia and called for major reforms to the body. | 9yrs

The fashion company was successful after five years of litigation against FreshSide. | 9yrs

Force but flexible strategies are necessary to deal with counterfeit breaches, says Fredericka Argent, associate in the global Branded Goods practice at Covington & Burling. | 9yrs

This year's Luxury Law Summit will take place on 19 May, 2015 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Park Lane, London. | 9yrs

Inaccurate 'Made in the USA' labelling can trigger class actions in California. Katherine Gasztonyi, associate, and Simon Frankel, partner, in the global Branded Goods practice at Covington & Burling, discuss recent litigation. | 9yrs

Santa's sleigh is likely to be laden with wearable tech devices. As the Apple Watch hits the shelves, Microsoft is unveiling a fitness band with smartwatch functions. LMVH is in talks with a technology company and may launch a smartwatch in the coming months. | 9yrs

Withers has launched a new alliance in Australia through a link-up with Balazs Lazanas & Welch - in a venture which will target tax, corporate and immigration clients and will be called Withers SBL. | 9yrs

Quindell, the troubled law practice which is listed in the UK, now looks likely to be on the receiving end of a class action from Your Legal Friend.com. | 9yrs

Michael J Garcia, the US lawyer who resigned yesterday from the football body's ethics committee, said that the Fifa executive committee tried to begin disciplinary proceedings against him two months ago. | 9yrs

The dispute between Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia and his colleague Hans-Joachim Eckert, chair of the ethics adjudicatory committee, looks set to be resolved at the football body's Morocco meeting later this week. | 9yrs

A recent decision on counterfeit goods in London will have implications outside the UK. | 9yrs

A part of the Dodd-Frank law, which deals with 'anti-spoofing', is being challenged as part of the defence of Michael Coscia, the first person to face criminal prosecution under its provisions. | 9yrs

John Altorelli, who earned US$6m at Dewey LeBoeuf in 2011 and who is now co-chair of the DLA Piper US finance group, has filed for bankruptcy. | 9yrs