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World's No.1 automaker Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay $10 million to a family of four people who were killed in a runaway Lexus crash near San Diego last year that prompted a string of recalls of millions of Toyota vehicles.

A top antitrust partner at Howrey is leaving the law firm, adding to the growing number of top lawyers who have quit the firm in recent months.

A Massachusetts-based lawyer, who was suspended for defrauding 10 mortgage lenders of more than $10.6 million, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has reportedly poached on as many as nine partners from McDermott Will & Emery and dozens of associates are also expected to make the move in the coming days.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have topped the list of legal advisers to European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by value and volume in 2010, according to Legal Week.

The Washington D.C. Court of Appeals, for the first time since 1900, has decided not to impose disbarment as a sanction on a lawyer found guilty of intentionally misappropriating client funds because the was, in intent and effect, in the best interest of his ward.

American Bar Association (ABA) president Stephen N. Zack has strongly condemned the unfair trial and sentencing of an Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.

A New York federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit that was seeking to force Philip Morris USA Inc. to pay for medical monitoring program for Marlboro smokers.

Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi have presented evidence to magistrates from dozens of witnesses denying accounts of wild sex parties at a luxurious villa belonging to the embattled Italian prime minister.

Billionaire Stanley Ho, the 89-year old godfather of a casino business empire based in Macau in southern China, is battling members of his own family over the control of companies that comprise his immense wealth.

Athletes, including former baseball all-star Jason Giambi, will be allowed to testify about getting steroids from Barry Bonds' trainer when the perjury trial of Major League Baseball's home run king begins in March, a federal judge said on Friday.

Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom has put his home in the Hollywood Hills for rent at a whooping $18,000 a month.

Politicians and law enforcement officials in Mexico are increasingly being forced to make a choice between 'silver' or 'lead' - bribe or bullet - in the state's growing battle against powerful drug cartels.

Another Vatican letter instructing non-cooperation with civil authorities has come to light, this one from 1984 and addressed to the Bishop of Tucson, Arizona.

The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church is embroiled, once again, in a sexual abuse scandal or, more properly speaking, another aspect of the same sexual abuse scandal that has haunted the Church for over 20 years.

The relationship between organized crime and the Kennedy Family remain a permanent fixture in any discussion of the famous – some would say, infamous – Massachusetts Irish clan.

Police questioned former banker Rudolf Elmer on Thursday over possible fresh breaches of Swiss bank law for giving data to WikiLeaks this week, a day after he was found guilty of violating bank secrecy.

A Swiss lawyer officially filed a legal maneuver asking the government to freeze any assets held by Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Swiss banks, on the heels of a similar request by the Swiss Socialist Party.

Sony has filed several documents with the courts in California in an effort to show that the courts there have jurisdiction over a hacker who publicized a jailbreak for the Playstation 3 console.

A successful and idealistic Mexican lawyer, who became the mayor of Santiago in November 2009, turned into a victim of gruesome killing even before he completed one year in office as he chose 'lead' over 'silver'.

A California court today asked that Sony show it has jurisdiction over the hacker who publicized a jailbreak for the Playstation 3 console.