Latest legal news

The US law firm is bringing together a global team to sort out the 'really big messes' companies get into. | 9yrs

Norton Rose Fulbright has lost its global head of investigations as the firm prepares to merge with Chadbourne & Parke. | 9yrs

French law firm Lacourte Raquin Tatar is adding three new partners and one counsel from the Paris-based practices of Allen & Overy and Gide. | 9yrs

The law firm is closing down its Thai office and ending its Indonesian association. | 9yrs

Following a number of violations of lawyers' legal rights which have garnered global scrutiny, Chinese authorities are to establish mechanisms to respond quickly to cases that harm solicitors' professional rights. | 9yrs

Adam Harris, a partner at pan-African law firm Bowmans, is the new president of Insol International - which also represents the first time Africa has produced the top office-bearer at the world's leading insolvency association. | 9yrs

FTSE-listed Ladbrokes Coral Group Plc has restructured its executive legal team. The team will now be led by Lindsay Beardsell who joined the company as Group General Counsel last January. | 9yrs

NRA state affiliate, the California Rifle and Pistol Association has filed a lawsuit aimed at overturning a sweeping set of control bills signed into law last year including banning assault rifles which says it is 'unconstitutional'. | 9yrs

Three former partners at Baker Potts LLP have stepped out on their own forming Houston-based civil trial law firm Jordan, Lynch & Cancienne PLLC. | 9yrs

The present wave of automation, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a gap between current legislation and new laws necessary for an emerging workplace reality, states a new report by the IBA Global Employment Institute (IBA GEI). | 9yrs

A weekly round-up of in-house moves around the globe. | 9yrs

General counsel are now expected to contribute to the organisation well beyond the traditional compliance and litigation focus and take an enterprising stance in the corporate and strategic planning process within the boardroom. | 9yrs

Employment laws for humans may no longer be relevant for robots, according to the International Bar Association. | 9yrs

The UK tax authorities have raided two football clubs and seized documents and computers as part of a tax investigation. | 9yrs

In an audacious move, Irish law firm Arthur Cox has hired the Belfast head of Pinsent Masons. | 9yrs

The firm acted in the £200m deal, Soho House's first foothold in London's City area. | 9yrs

Technology M&A activity is set to accelerate over the course of 2017, according to a survey from global law firm Morrison & Foerster. | 9yrs

Reed Smith is introducing a new Agile Working Policy which will take immediate effect for all personnel in the London office - a move it says will increase productivity and staff retention. | 9yrs

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has snapped up four partners from BMR Legal along with their teams thought to total more than 30 lawyers. | 9yrs