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• Former Minter Ellison finance chief admits to stealing $2.7m from firm

  Mar 19 2012 The former finance chief in the Adelaide office of major Australian firm Minter Ellison has admitted stealing $2.7 million from the firm before fleeing to Thailand.... more

• Former Mishcon de Reya partner sentenced to 5 years prison for fraud and forgery

  Jan 29 2012 A former Mishcon de Reya partner has been sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a €22m loan scam. Kevin Steele was convicted by the Serious Fraud... more

• Washington lawyer pleads guilty to securities fraud

  Dec 17 2011 Washington lawyer Matthew Kluger pled guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud, obstruction of justice and other charges. The charges maintained that over the... more

• Fraud proceedings for former partners of Hogan Lovells, Mishcon de Reya

  Dec 09 2011 Former Hogan Lovells litigation partner Christopher Grierson has been charged with four counts of false accounting by the City of London police. Grierson was fired... more

• Senior partner from Thomson Hine's white collar crime practice is charged with tax fraud

  Oct 18 2011 The senior partner in Thompson Hine's competition, antitrust, and white collar crime practice group has been charged with tax fraud in an Ohio federal court. Leslie... more

• A&O GC sentenced to more than 15 years prison for fraud

  Jul 29 2011 The former general counsel for A&O Resource Management Ltd, Russell Mackert, has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for his role in scheme that defrauded... more

• US lawyer accused of stealing and trading on info from top law firms

  Apr 07 2011 Matthew H. Kluger, until recently a senior associate at the Washington office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has been charged with stealing confidential... more

• Serious Fraud Office investigation leads to arrest of two partners at M&A Solicitors

  Mar 29 2011 Two partners at UK law firm M&A Solicitors, have been arrested after an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into the sale of coal mines in South Wales. One... more

• Clifford Chance secretary convicted of fraud

  Feb 07 2011 A former Clifford Chance secretary has been convicted of fraud for stealing over £23,000 from the firm. Judie Groom was the secretary to two construction partners at... more

• UK lawyers behaving badly

  Dec 06 2010 A number of stories have surfaced this week about lawyers trading their professional integrity for cash. In West Yorkshire, Milners Solicitors partner Simon Morgan... more

• Irish firm wound up by High Court after serious fraud

  Oct 29 2010 Dublin-based law firm Sean O'Ceallaigh & Co has been wound up by the High Court, after a partner admitted gambling away €2.5million of his clients' money on stocks and... more

• Former Home Minister of India faces charges for murder, kidnapping, extortion and destruction of evidence

  Jul 27 2010 Former Home Minister Amit Shah has been charged with murder, kidnapping, extortion and destruction of evidence in the fake encounter killings of gangster Sohrabuddin... more