Debt collection and threats of lawsuits from customers are the two largest legal threats for US small businesses, according to LegalShield. | 10yrs

Immunity for those who admit to cartel involvement has seen a sharp rise in the number reporting cartels. | 10yrs

Amounts spent on legal costs rose 22.15 per cent in 2013/14, according to an analysis of the BSE, Bombay Stock Exchange. | 10yrs

The 13-office, international firm Watson, Farley & Williams, known traditionally for its shipping practice, is opening its 14th office in Dubai. | 10yrs

Lawyers representing former Dewey & LeBoeuf senior executives have argued that charges should be dismissed as there was a lack of criminal intent. | 10yrs

Kirkland & Ellis has apologised to two mediators, including the chief judge of the Eastern District of Michigan, for 'any unfounded aspersions' they may have cast. | 10yrs

China's investigation of a former official, accused of corruption estimated at US$43m and of sustaining at least 11 mistresses, is raising questions for the UK, New Zealand and other countries. | 10yrs

The incident which a judges association has been warning about - the use of a firearm in a courthouse - has now happened, leaving a client wounded and the lawyer dead. | 10yrs

Eight years after he opened the Paris office of Berwin Leighton Paisner, Antoine-Audoin Maggiar is leaving and the base is being downgraded. | 10yrs

Ropes & Gray, advisers to GlaxoSmithKline in its China corruption investigations, is strengthening its specialist team in order to meet continued demand. | 10yrs

Banks in the British Virgin Islands are making it more difficulty for new accounts to be opened after a rise in reports of suspicious transactions relating to the Caribbean tax haven. | 10yrs

Andrew Fitch-Holland, of Argent Chambers in London, acted for Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand cricketer, when he won libel damages of £90,000 in 2012. | 10yrs

Canadian organisations are registering the intellectual property and signing non-disclosure agreements as the main ways of protecting themselves over IP in China. | 10yrs

Baker & McKenzie, alongside its client Yahoo, has been accused of perverting the course of justice in Mexico and arranging for a secret meeting between two judges. | 10yrs

A senior regulator in China has denied treating foreign businesses more harshly than domestic ones - despite handing out fines to Audi and Chrysler. | 10yrs

Leading Iberian law firm Garrigues has recruited a team of four finance lawyers to strengthen the full service offering of its Peruvian office. | 10yrs

Lawyer and former Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert is the subject of a request to expel him from the Jerusalem Bar Association. | 10yrs

One law firm with offices in both England and Scotland has moved its Scottish-based cash deposits into English accounts incase problems emerge after next week's independence vote. | 10yrs

A New Jersey lawyer who has been suspended for three months has blamed a lifestyle of golf and holidays for making him neglect his files. | 10yrs