Latest legal news

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

Irish law firm Matheson has announced the opening of an office in San Francisco - its third in the US. | 9yrs

Twenty-five general counsels from some the world's biggest companies have joined forces to share and sructinise data on the law firms they use and their results in a bid to see what firms and billing processes are most effective. | 9yrs

Gordon Dadds is set to float on AIM after agresing a £20 million reverse takeover with Works Group and is to be renamed Gordon Dadds Group plc. | 9yrs

Andersen Global has expanded into Turkey via a collaboration with consultancy firm Nazali Tax & Legal which has offices in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Bursa. | 9yrs