Hackers have stolen £85m from British law firms in the past 18 months in so-called 'Friday afternoon fraud'. | 9yrs

A new report claims that the majority of law firm mergers fail to deliver benefits to clients and risk damaging partnership value. | 9yrs

A Russian cybercriminal has targeted nearly 50 elite law firms to collect confidential client information for financial gain. | 9yrs

A law school graduate who sued her alma mater after failing to find work as a lawyer has been defeated in her long-running legal battle. | 9yrs

A US court has convicted a woman who posed as an estate lawyer for a decade but never qualified or even attended a law school. | 9yrs

London-based Atkins Thomson Solicitors is suing Michael Jackson's estate for an alleged $200,000 of unpaid fees. | 9yrs

French firm Veil Jourde has launched an office in Brussels, its first outside of Paris. | 9yrs

The executive vice chairman of the Alibaba Group - often referred to as the Chinese Amazon -has donated $30m to his alma mater. | 9yrs

Recent alerts from the FBI and Microsoft warn of a new ransomware family, Samas, which can encrypt an entire network and is of particular concern for law firms and legal departments. | 9yrs

The Solicitors Regulation Authority intends to significantly reduce the size of its handbook from its current 600 pages to nearer 50. | 9yrs

Dentons, Eversheds, K&L Gates and Reed Smith are to be included in a seven-firm global panel created by US car rental giant Avis. | 9yrs

According to data from Thomson Reuters , US firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has acted on M&A deals worth more than any other firm so far this year, with 26 transactions valued at more than $112bn. | 9yrs

JustKapital Litigation Partners and Woodsford Litigation Funding have joined forces to fund proceedings against embattled Australian law firm Slater and Gordon. | 9yrs

Corporate partner Aedamar Comiskey has entered the race to lead international firm Linklaters as senior partner. | 9yrs

Law firm Ashurst has launched a new integrated global team that will focus on developing legal services innovations for clients. | 9yrs

The US Supreme Court has divided 4-4 in a case for the first time since the death last month of Justice Antonin Scalia. | 9yrs

The steel city is aiming to entice the UK's leading firms out of London with cash incentives, while city leaders have been in touch with all the top 100 firms to urge them to consider 'northshoring'. | 9yrs

A new study shows that sales of legal services was worth £25.7bn in the UK in 2015 and that 1 per cent of growth in the sector creates 8,000 jobs. | 9yrs

A new report reveals a major disconnect between how partners and fee-earners at mid-sized firms view where they work, including 'an exaggerated sense of progressiveness among decision-makers'. | 9yrs

International firm Debevoise & Plimpton has announced it is opening an office in Tokyo, with three lawyers relocating from New York. | 9yrs