More than £9.5 billion in tax is being repaid after successful legal cases where people demanded their bills be reassessed, public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), has revealed. | 9yrs
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Law firms have been invited to tender for a contract worth up to £500 million as United Utilities forges ahead with a multi-billion pound water network investment. | 9yrs
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has hired additional legal and general staff to beef up resources in the face of Brexit | 9yrs
Half of the clients who were dissatisfied with their legal representation did not complain or take any action, according to figures just published from the legal ombudsman. | 9yrs
Law firms have no incentive to innovate, the legal chatbot founder of DoNotPay claims as he launches his latest idea. | 9yrs
President Donald Trump has appointed Ty Cobb - former federal prosecutor and partner in the investigations practice of Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC - as White House special counsel. | 9yrs
Australian law firms are having a wider choice of home grown talent thanks to Brexit. | 9yrs
Australian law firms are having a wider choice of home grown talent thanks to Brexit. | 9yrs
Cybersecurity risks can be particularly severe for solicitors - but simple steps will help to reduce the risk of cyber attacks, according to a new guide published by the Law Society of Scotland. | 9yrs
Former Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen is one of a number of Irish investors taking Punch Robson Solicitors to court over negligence seeking total damages of £14 million | 9yrs
Average profits per equity partner have topped £136,000 across UK law firms with rising fee income and control over overheads twin drivers. | 9yrs
Vario's launch in Australia has seen the team seek out local lawyers who have different personality traits than their UK counterparts - from less respect for hierarchy to more straight-forward communications skills. | 9yrs
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has become the first European country to offer a legal framework for space resources utilisation in efforts to provide private operators information about their rights on resources they extract in space. | 9yrs
Winston & Strawn has confirmed its mass hire of McDermott Will & Emery employment partners. | 9yrs
Australia is set to introduce new laws to force technology companies to provide access to encrypted communications in efforts to tackle terrorism, drugs trade and child exploitation. | 9yrs
As part of a £1 million investment round Fieldfisher has invested in SeedLegals, donned the world's first automated legal service for start-up funding rounds. | 9yrs
Law firms are not consistent on billing with few following guidelines and questions over quality, say clients. | 9yrs
A joint committee of private bodies working in tandem with government has hired foreign legal expert Scott Jacobs, president of Jacobs, Cordova & Associates to help the government's ongoing law reform plans. | 9yrs
Cooley has boosted its emerging and public companies practices in New York and Washington with the arrival of four prominent partners from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. | 9yrs
The Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association, which represents over 800 in-house lawyers in Hong Kong, has formed an alliance with the American network. | 9yrs