Herbert Smith Freehills, K&L Gates and Stephenson Harwood are among those instructed by the Serious Fraud Office in proceedings against former employees of Barclays and Deutsche Bank accused of manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor). | 8yrs

A High Court judge has ruled that documents prepared by Clifford Chance for RBS relating to the fallout from the Libor scandal are protected by legal privilege, saying that lawyers should be able to give 'candid factual briefings'. | 8yrs

Ashurst finance partner Jamie Ng has led a team that has completed the first Shari'ah compliant murabaha (a form of credit sale) in Australia. | 8yrs

The week before Indian PM Narendra Modi's visit to the UK, a group of influential Indians have reportedly instructed lawyers to begin legal proceedings demanding the Government return the 105-carat Koh-i-noor diamond to India. | 8yrs

GMB, the union that represents professional drivers, has instructed Leigh Day to take legal action on behalf of its members who drive for Uber. It aims to establish the drivers with worker status, rather than as self-employed customers or partners. | 8yrs

It has emerged that the government's draft investigatory powers bill, which will govern state agencies' interception of communications, lacks statutory protection for legal privilege. | 8yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is being scrutinised for charging £2.8m in legal fees when advising HM Treasury during the £585m sale of the government's 40 per cent stake in Eurostar in March this year. | 8yrs

Innangard will be used as a platform by its members to offer advice to in-house counsel and HR professionals. | 8yrs

European firms Chiomenti, Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, Gide Loyrette Nouel and Gleiss Lutz are to launch a joint focus group for regulatory issues centred in Frankfurt, in proximity to the European Central Bank (ECB). | 8yrs

In their new book The Future of the Professions, Daniel Susskind and Professor Richard Susskind argue that technology may play a larger part in professions such as law than is generally acknowledged, and what's more that this should be embraced. | 8yrs

Four former drivers who delivered goods as part of Amazon's Prime Now service have sued the company and its contractor in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Amazon is achieving speed and affordability only by cheating workers. | 8yrs

Tunisia's investment minister has said the country intends to double annual inflows of foreign investment over the next five years, to $2.5bn, by pushing through legal reforms and reducing industrial unrest. | 8yrs

The New York State Unified Court System is proposing to amend the Rules of the Court of Appeals to allow foreign lawyers to register as in-house counsel. | 8yrs

A study on gender bias in the legal industry by recruiter Cogence Search has found that lawyers are against the introduction of quotas as a means to solve the problem. | 8yrs

Russia and Ukraine are vowing to fight one another in a London court, in a dispute that will test the limits of sovereign-debt litigation and that could have far reaching implications for government bailouts. | 8yrs

A meeting between justice secretary Michael Gove and senior members of City law firms seems to have done little to allay fears that the Ministry of Justice plans to impose some form of levy on City firms to fund the courts. | 8yrs

Altman Weil's 'Law Firms in Transition Survey' suggests a potential retirement crisis, a growing threat from non-traditional competitors and an increased belief in the ability of AI to carry out work currently done by people. | 8yrs

Hausfeld is to become the latest US firm to open in Germany, after a $30m investment from Burford Capital that will fund a raft of German claims for the firm with a focus on competition litigation. | 8yrs

Mediators and other practitioners of alternative dispute resolution are using information gleaned from neuroscience to help clients through a conflict-ridden process. | 8yrs

A survey by First Advantage has revealed a discrepancy between employers' belief in the need to screen employees in order to protect organisations and their actual screening practices. | 8yrs