Latest legal news

The doctor dragged off a United plane looks set to sue for millions after hiring two sets of prominent Chicago lawyers. | 9yrs

Capita has appointed a total of 21 law firms after the company reviewed its commercial legal panel for the first time in two years. | 9yrs

New research demonstrates 'unambiguous evidence' of a flagrant disconnect between large law firms clients where 'not a single client interviewed was satisfied with what law firms provide'. | 9yrs

The California Accredited Law Schools (CALS) and the California Law School Council have asked the California Supreme Court to allow a representative help investigate the lowest reported bar pass rate in 32 years last July. | 9yrs

The fast-growing digital world has seen the counterfeit market flourish, with luxury brands in particular targeted. | 9yrs

Has the net been tightened around the offshore world, asks Burford Capital director of asset recovery Daniel Hall. | 9yrs

A US Federal Judge has ruled that a Texas law requiring voters to show identification before casting ballots was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters. | 9yrs

Eight new partners have been admitted at Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA) in efforts to to inject 'renewed energy' into the 17-year-old company and make it the number one legal firm in the East Africa region. | 9yrs

The embattled companies' reputational woes are far from over, it seems. | 9yrs

Boies Schiller Flexner is to merge with West Coast litigation firm Caldwell Leslie & Proctor next week. | 9yrs

Andersen Tax & Legal has debuted in Italy with the Italian member firm of Andersen Global, Noda Studio, formally adopting the Andersen name. | 9yrs

Eighty per cent of C-level executives say trademark infringement is on the rise but only 20 per cent have a process in place to actively watch more than three quarters of their marks. | 9yrs

Cuts to legal aid for prisoners were dramatically overturned yesterday, April 10, as unlawful with judges saying that refusing to allow certain categories of inmates access to public money to fight legal cases was 'inherently unfair'. | 9yrs

King & Spalding has announced that Joseph Akrotirianakis has joined as a partner in the business litigation practice based in the firm's Los Angeles office. | 9yrs

The parent company of Fox News, 21st Century Fox, has hired law firm of Paul Weiss to look into sexual harassment claims against TV host Bill O'Reilly. | 9yrs

Global legal services firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has moved into its new 10,566-square-foot office at Brickell World Plaza in Miami as it expands in South Florida in a leasing deal search that took less than three months to complete. | 9yrs

Hogan Lovells has launched a global fintech mentoring programme to fintech start-ups the UK, US, Germany and Hong Kong in efforts to bring new ideas to market. | 9yrs

Baker McKenzie's London office has seen its revenue increase more than 20 per cent with turnover up to £176 million in 2016 from £145.2m a year earlier - significantly higher than the firm's global growth rate. For others, news has not been so good. | 9yrs

Africa looks set for a bright future on the private equity front with activity on the rise, according to a new report which predicts that around a billion dollars could be invested in the next five years. | 9yrs