Latest legal news

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

UK lawyers believe that technology will have the greatest impact on their firms over the next five years but Scottish lawyers and their English counterparts are at odds over its importance and the challenges of implementation. | 9yrs