A Bar Council report on the experience of female barristers has found that many feel the bar has changed for the better, but also feel pushed toward traditional 'women's practice areas' such as family and sex crime. | 9yrs

Only months after the Coalition Government raised some civil court fees by 600 per cent, justice minister Shailesh Vara MP has announced that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has begun another consultation to increase court fees afresh. | 9yrs

Most junior lawyers are fulfilled in their professional lives and enjoy a reasonably healthy work/life balance, despite some concerns over bonus schemes, the quality of management and career prospects. | 9yrs

In a report by the Law Society, City firms warn that proposals to change legal training by the Solicitors Regulation Authority are potentially dangerous to the UK law industry's global reputation. | 9yrs

Legal consultant John Chisholm believes firms could to do more to keep their top lawyers engaged, saying that many major firms have excellent strategies for recruiting talented lawyers, but could do more to retain them long term. | 9yrs

Malaysian law firm ZICOlaw has hired Samuel Britton as its Myanmar managing partner in Yangon. He moves from Sciaroni & Associates, where he was regional managing partner. | 9yrs

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has hired Haydn Dare as a partner from Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung, Herbert Smith Freehills' alliance firm in Indonesia. | 9yrs

According to bank insiders, Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies may have received a mandate to review Lloyds Bank's legal function as one of his first tasks in his new role as chief people, legal and strategy officer. | 9yrs

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has hired capital markets partner Shuang Zhao in Hong Kong. | 9yrs

The Delhi High Court has set aside the state government's order rejecting an application by online taxi firm Uber Technologies for a licence to operate in the capital, allowing the US-based company to ply its trade in Delhi and reapply for a licence. | 9yrs

Offshore law firm Harneys has established an office in Tokyo as part of an expansion plan that saw the firm open its doors in Hong Kong in 2005 and in Singapore last year. | 9yrs

CEO of AdventBalance Ken Jagger has predicted that traditional Australian firms will continue to struggle to maintain their market share, as US and UK firms flood the market and boutique specialist firms increase their dominance. | 9yrs

Baker & McKenzie has expanded its disputes practice with the hire of Joel Greer as a partner in its Tokyo office. | 9yrs

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired oil and gas lawyer Paul Greening as a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office from Vinson & Elkins. | 9yrs

Holman Fenwick Willan has entered into a formal law alliance (FLA) in Singapore with local law firm AsiaLegal, with the entity operating under the name HFW AsiaLegal. | 9yrs

DLA Piper has announced that Michael Bowen, Scott Gibson and Marc Wilshaw of Perth corporate law firm Hardy Bowen have joined the firm as partners, in a move which significantly increases DLA Piper's corporate capability. | 9yrs

Latham & Watkins private equity and M&A partner Graeme Sloan has joined Morrison & Foerster as the firm's global M&A co-chair and London corporate head. | 9yrs

The Government has begun discussions with the Bar Council of India and other stake holders to open the legal services sector to foreign firms in a calibrated manner, according to Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher. | 9yrs

US-headquartered Shearman & Sterling has established an on-the-ground presence in Saudi Arabia in affiliation with Abdulaziz Alassaf & Partners. | 9yrs

In an escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary, Egypt's top public prosecutor Hisham Barakat died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his home in Cairo. | 9yrs