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

Melbourne-based law firm Maurice Blackburn, working with a coalition of anti-gambling groups called Alliance for Gambling Reform, is preparing a case arguing that poker machine operators are engaging in deceptive and misleading conduct. | 8yrs

Volkswagen AG has suspended a larger number of employees than previously acknowledged, following advice from Jones Day, the law firm conducting an internal investigation into the company's emissions cheating scandal. | 8yrs

In the clearest sign yet that the US search giant will face fresh competition charges in Brussels, the bloc's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has said that EU regulators will actively pursue Google parent company Alphabet on a range of fronts. | 8yrs

American International Group (AIG) is to launch The Legal Operations Company in January next year. It will advise outside corporations on how to set competitive pricing and make their legal operations more efficient. | 9yrs

Justice secretary Michael Gove has floated a plan to impose a multi-million pound tax on commercial law firms, in order to fund the abolition of a controversial criminal court charge on guilty defendants. | 9yrs

As he continues to face battles in courtrooms across the US, Bill Cosby has replaced Martin D. Singer with business litigation and arbitration specialists Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. | 9yrs

The Japanese government and manufacturers are setting their sights on 'complete driverless driving', which would eliminate accidents caused by human error and ease traffic congestion. | 9yrs

GT Law, one of Slater & Gordon's major rivals in the UK personal injury space, has gone into administration. | 9yrs