Lawyers

• Litigation Hold, Easier Said Than Done

  There are some basic obligations to understand when it comes to implementing a legal hold, so that corporations would not mess up with it.

• Volkswagen Replaces Chief Counsel in the U.S.

  David Geanacopoulos is stepping down from his position as the chief councel of Volkswagen in the United States, and has appointed David Detweiler as his replacement.

• South Korea’s Environment Ministry To File Lawsuit Against Volkswagen Head

  Following the recent issue of Volkswagen with regards to their emissions-cheating vehicles, South Korea's ministry of environment will reportedly filed a criminal case against the head of German Automaker.

• Xinhua says China blast warehouse did not have proper license

  The Chinese company which owns a warehouse that exploded in Tianjin last week, killing more than 100 people, did not have a license to handle hazardous chemicals until two months before the disaster, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

• Brazil dictatorship probe urges prosecuting military, companies

  A "truth commission" investigating abuses during Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship called for the prosecution of former military officers and some private companies for their role in human rights atrocities, in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

• Volkswagen spied on Lula, other Brazilian workers in 1980s

  Volkswagen AG spied on Brazilian union activists in the 1980s and passed sensitive information about wage demands and other private discussions to the country's military dictatorship, according to newly uncovered documents seen by Reuters.

• India regulator fines carmakers $420 million for anti-competitive practices

  India's pricing regulator has fined more than a dozen global and local carmakers a total of 25.5 billion rupees ($420 million) after a probe found they had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the world's sixth largest auto market.

• Judge says lawsuit over Porsche's botched takeover of Volkswagen may result to a dismissal

  Presiding Judge Carola Wittig said that the hedge funds investors of Porsche Automobil Holding SE failed to convince the German court regarding seeking remuneration over the automaker's unannounced takeover of Volkswagen AG.

• German VW set to mark the first foreign auto factory with union

  United Auto Workers is set to mark a new milestone in union membership, as owners of the Tennessee-based plant of Volkswagen AG agreed to have its factory workers to be represented by an employee council.