Latest legal news

Law firm salaries largely stood still in Australia in 2016 with wages growth across the legal industry dropping to a record low of one per cent. | 9yrs

Allen & Overy is suing a former client for $343,448 for what it claims are unpaid fees. | 9yrs

US law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is to establish an office in Brussels headed up by Michael Rosenthal who headed up Wilson Sonsini's Brussels practice. | 9yrs

Companies can no longer assume that private documents, including interview records used for internal investigations, will be protected after a controversial High Court ruling. | 9yrs

The global legal services market had total revenues of $584.4bn in 2016 and over six million practitioners. | 9yrs

The Italian parliament has passed a law designed to tackle cyber bullying of children after a number of minors committed suicide. | 9yrs

White House lawyers have denied that they are researching impeachment procedures following a spate of newspaper reports. | 9yrs

Deal sizes are returning to their pre-2008 levels owing to the 'dry powder' accumulated by private equity firms. | 9yrs

Tesco is facing the prospect of another legal challenge over its accounting scandal after lawyers called on retail investors to back fresh action against the supermarket chain. | 9yrs

Nestle has lost the latest stage of its legal battle with Cadbury to trademark Kit-Kat's four-finger shape in Britain. | 9yrs

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP has announced that the Honourable Marshall Rothstein, QC has joined the partnership and will be based in Vancouver. | 9yrs

A new tool using IBM's Watson could help inhouse legal teams save save up to 30 per cent on their annual outside counsel spend. | 9yrs

Institutional investors have moved beyond traditional US securities litigation efforts to focus on damages in non-US jurisdictions and antitrust violations. | 9yrs

Clients are demanding fast responses from their external advisers if they are to win work, according to new research which also reveals the decline of personal relationships. | 9yrs

Chicago law firm Seyfarth Shaw is understood to have laid off 40 lawyers in the US - across all levels - and an unknown number of staffers. | 9yrs

For the first time Dentons has won a spot on Standard Chartered's global legal panel while Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), Baker McKenzie, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Slaughter and May and Linklaters have all been reappointed. | 9yrs

Andersen Global is to have a presence in Nigeria with the addition of the practice formerly run under WTS ADEBIYI & Associates. | 9yrs

Information law specialists, Redgrave Information Law, has made a number of significant new appointments across offices in San Francisco, Cleveland and Minneapolis. | 9yrs

Private prosecutions can be helpful in the fight against counterfeiting but must be used with caution, says Adam Glass of Lewis Silkin. | 9yrs