2016 looks set to be General Motor's year of reckoning, with the company facing hundreds of claims demanding it pay compensation for the deaths of loved ones and injuries in accidents caused by a flawed ignition switch. | 8yrs

The Co-operative Group has announced its first legal acquisition, as it refocuses attention on face-to-face services after a difficult start in the sector. | 8yrs

Nabarro's French ally Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés is to merge with fellow Paris-based firm CGR Legal, creating a €44m (£32.9m) firm with 160 lawyers. | 8yrs

The tug of war between The Royal Bank of Scotland and its go-to law firms over a proposed pay freeze ended with Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters winning appointments to the bank's legal panel for the next three years. | 8yrs

Indian law firm Nishith Desai has opened an office in New York, its second in the US and eighth globally, which will offer Indian law advice. | 8yrs

Stockbroker Arden Partners believes that up to 75 per cent of the current UK 200 firms could disappear over the next five years, as external investment consolidates the 'highly fragmented' market. | 8yrs

Insurance specialist Holman Fenwick Willan has seen its revenue drop five per cent to £139m from £145m, while its operating profit has fallen 16 per cent to £49.9m from £59m. | 8yrs

A retrial of former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives has been set for September, but won't include the firm's ex-chairman, Steven Davis. | 8yrs

Dentons has confirmed it is hiring Matthew Arnold & Baldwin's (MAB) banking and finance litigation team, made up of 11 partners and 64 fee-earners. | 8yrs

National Australia Bank and Westpac, Slater & Gordon's lead financiers, have installed McGrathNicol as investigating accountants to make a forensic examination of the law firm's books. | 8yrs

Houston-headquartered law firm Baker Botts has announced that it has officially opened its new office in San Francisco. | 8yrs

Nabarro and Slaughter and May improved their trainee retention figures this month, with the former keeping 89 per cent and the latter managing a 95 per cent rate of retention. | 8yrs

A report from a company that provides patent risk management services has shown that the number of patent disputes reached new highs in the US in 2015. | 8yrs

New documents have revealed that the collapsed Parabis group went into administration owing almost £50m to more than 2,500 unsecured creditors. | 8yrs

Simmons and Simmons' focus on costs and lock-up management helped the firm to increase profits and reduce borrowing costs for the last financial year. | 8yrs

A new study suggests that headlines predicting automation will have a dire impact on the job market for lawyers may have overstated the case. | 8yrs

Two out of three callers in 2015 to a charity offering support and advice to lawyers were women, while nearly four out of ten were trainees or qualified for five years or less. | 8yrs

Accounts filed at Companies House show Clifford Chance's streamlined executive leadership group saw an average seven per cent fall in their pay packets in the last financial year, while the firm's revenue and profit also fell. | 8yrs

The US Justice Department sued Volkswagen AG on Monday, seeking billions of dollars in penalties as a result of the emissions-cheating crisis at the German auto giant. | 8yrs

The European Commission is to examine the issue of Poland's constitutional court next month, after the Polish president signed into law disputed amendments to the court's powers. | 8yrs