The Legal Services Board has found that the size of the for profit unregulated sector is smaller than previously thought. | 8yrs

After 40 years, San Diego-based law firm Kirby Noonan Lance & Hoge will separate into multiple firms: Kirby & Kirby LLP, Noonan Lance Boyer & Banach LLP, Hoge Law Firm, The Law Office of Steven W. Sanchez and The Law Office of Christopher T. Wright. | 8yrs

White & Case is to open an office in Cairo after announcing an association with new Egyptian law firm MHR & Partners. | 8yrs

Firms including Ashurst, Bond Dickinson, Clifford Chance, DWF, Eversheds, Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown, Reed Smith and Simmons & Simmons have won places on banking giant Barclays' reduced legal roster. | 8yrs

Sir Keir Starmer QC and Andy Slaughter have become the latest in a wave of shadow ministers to resign in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU. | 8yrs

Led Zeppelin members Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have won a copyright lawsuit that claimed they plagiarised the music in their 1971 anthem “Stairway to Heaven." | 8yrs

Members of Labour's shadow justice team are among the wave of shadow cabinet ministers who have resigned in protest against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU. | 8yrs

In its second European closure this month, Ashurst has announced it is shutting its Rome office after five years. | 8yrs

Baker & McKenzie has made up 85 lawyers in this year's global round, with a focus on building its M&A, disputes and tax offering. | 8yrs

RPC has seen turnover hit £100m for the first time after its top line grew by 6 per cent, from £94m to 2014/15 to £100.5m in the last financial year. | 8yrs

Brexit could have a serious impact on City of London law firms' approach to hiring trainee solicitors, as European Union graduates from outside the UK face being frozen out of the job market. | 8yrs

Legal experts have expressed doubts about the future of Britain's commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights following the following the UK's vote to leave the EU. | 8yrs

In the wake of UK's decision to leave the EU, law firms are considering whether to cancel planned pay rises. | 8yrs

New figures show that reports of misconduct against solicitors by fellow legal professionals have jumped a third in five years to over 2,500. | 8yrs

Hogan Lovells has launched a new app intended to help businesses navigate the legal landscape when in Indonesia. | 8yrs

Mishcon de Reya is acting for former Torex Retail chief executive Neil Mitchell in a £128m claim against the Royal Bank of Scotland and KPMG, with Dentons and Stephenson Harwood advising the defendants. | 8yrs

Magic Circle outfits Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed lead roles in an attempt by South Africa's Steinhoff to takeover British retailer Poundland. | 8yrs

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in China on a state visit and has used the occasion to urge Beijing to ensure an independent judiciary. | 8yrs

A London-based partner at DLA Piper has been fined £15,000 for sending 'despicable' emails to the Premier League's executive chairman Richard Scudamore. | 8yrs

James Bremen has left Herbert Smith Freehills to establish a UK construction disputes practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. | 8yrs