Law firms in Singapore have been expanding their employment practices to meet increasing demand for litigation, bolstered by tighter labour controls, the influx of foreign talent and the city state's growing popularity as a regional HR headquarters. | 8yrs

Chris Cummings, chief executive of the lobby group TheCityUK, says he has picked up a 'possible change in tone' in justice secretary Michael Gove's proposal for a levy to fund legal services. | 8yrs

China's National People's Congress Standing Committee has approved a new anti-terrorism law requiring tech companies to provide information to the government obtained from their products and make information systems 'secure and controllable.' | 8yrs

According to a source from the Argentina's economy ministry, the new government is searching for a second law firm to help resolve the country's long-standing battle with creditors suing it over its unpaid debt. | 8yrs

Trade experts claim that the rejection by an international arbitration tribunal of a case against the Australian government from the Philip Morris tobacco company answers fears about Investor State Dispute Settlement clauses in free-trade agreements. | 8yrs

China's outbound acquisitions in 2015 pushed Asia-Pacific's annual deal value past $1 trillion for the first time and the country looks set to raise the bar even higher in 2016, as companies buy more assets abroad to sidestep slowing domestic growth. | 8yrs

Apple and telecommunications-equipment maker Ericsson have ended a year-long patent dispute with a global license agreement that resolves all pending patent-infringement litigation between the companies. | 8yrs

Ukraine has missed the deadline to repay a disputed $3 billion bond it owes Russia, exacerbating tensions between the two countries and setting the stage for a protracted legal stand-off. | 8yrs

It remains to be seen how the law firm Kaye Scholer will treat its partner Evan Greebel, the former lead counsel of pharmaceutical company Retrophin who has been indicted alongside its former CEO Martin Shkreli. | 8yrs

KPMG, one of the Big Four accountancy firms to offer legal services through an alternative business structure, has reported a huge rise in income from the division and pledged further investment. | 8yrs

Data gathered by The Lawyer's digital tool Lawyer Market Intelligence (LMI) reveals that Herbert Smith Freehills is the UK law firm with the most FTSE 100 client relationships. | 8yrs

A criminal lawyer representing Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli has informed his client that he is raising his hourly fees by 5,000 per cent. | 8yrs

A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone-messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, as a punishment for WhatsApp's refusal to communicate with the court. | 8yrs

A test carried out by the University of Michigan found that computers were able to outperform humans in spotting liars in courtrooms. | 8yrs

Vladimir Putin has signed a law that allows the Constitutional Court of Russia to decide whether to comply with judgements made by international human rights courts. | 8yrs

Days after VW chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch admitted that engineers began working as early as 2005 on emissions cheating software, the carmaker is faced with legal action in India and China. | 8yrs

The disappearance and reappearance of Fosun Group founder and chairman Guo Guangchang and the lack of information released by the company highlight the opaqueness of China's legal system, according to analysts. | 8yrs

The demand for legal services in the areas of corporate and commercial law in Uganda is growing, according to David Mpanga, managing partner of Kampala-based law firm AF Mpanga. | 8yrs

Rideshare firm Uber has released a new contract to all of its drivers in the US that purports to solve problems a judge said made arbitration requirements in the previous agreement unenforceable. | 8yrs

Pure Legal Limited has completed the £13 million acquisition of York-based personal injury firm Pryers, with the intention of building a profitable PI business in the fixed-fee era. | 8yrs