Wall Street Journal: Business: Law

Rolls-Royce Holdings said it had settled a longstanding corruption probe with U.S., British and other authorities at a cost of more than $800 million.

Prosecutors’ decision to seek the arrest of Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong threatens to knock one of the world’s biggest companies off course—and, represents a significant challenge to South Korea’s large, family-run companies.

Citing attorney-client privilege, U.S. law firms keep secret the owners of money that moves into and out of their pooled accounts, a money-laundering vulnerability that U.S.

Shareholders allege director Marc Andreessen privately coached the CEO by text message on how to win over other members of the board.

A racially mixed jury has been seated in the death-penalty trial of Dylann Roof, a white man who is accused of seeking to incite a race war.

South Korea’s trade regulator will file criminal charges against Volkswagen and five of its executives and impose a heavy fine on the German auto maker over advertising claims that its cars met emissions regulations.

The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled a lower court should reconsider how much money Samsung owes rival Apple for infringing patents on the iPhone’s design.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings filed a lawsuit Monday in an effort to halt exits from the city’s police and fire pension fund following more than $500 million in withdrawals since early August.

The prosecution is expected to rest its case Monday in the retrial of Pedro Hernandez, the New Jersey man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979.

Leaders of Dallas’s Forest Park Medical Center face criminal charges after prosecutors said they paid roughly $40 million worth of bribes and kickbacks to health-care professionals who agreed to send patients to the high-end hospital.