Latest legal news

The UK Supreme Court will hear legal arguments in the “gay cake” case this autumn - a move welcomed by The McArthur family, who run the Ashers Baking Company at the centre of the case. | 9yrs

Linklaters corporate partner Tom Shropshire is to lead the firm's US practice, with Scott Bowie set to retire just two years after taking up the posiiton. | 9yrs

The firm was selected by the England and Wales Cricket Board on account of its enhanced TMT offering following the mega-merger on 1 May with Nabarro and Olswang. | 9yrs

Clyde & Co has expanded its IP network in the Middle East with an office in Kuwait. | 9yrs

A number of lawyers and law firms for Kanawha Valley residents and businesses are asking a federal judge to approve payments of up to nearly $43 million in legal fees. | 9yrs

Parent company to Fox News, 21st Century Fox, is understood to have begun the hunt for a CEO to take the reins of Fox News as the division faces an increasing number of lawsuits. | 9yrs

China has released two prominent human rights lawyers who had been detained for 22 months after allegedly confessing in court to collaborating with foreign organisations and media to damage Communist Party rule. | 9yrs

Three Chinese stock traders were ordered to pay $8.9 million in fines and penalties for hacking into two law firms and stealing information about mergers and acquisitions in the offing and then using the the information to trade stocks. | 9yrs

A legal tech start-up has won funding from the UK's leading social tech funder to develop its speech-to-text tool. | 9yrs

The Securities and Exchange Commission has hired a lawyer with experience working on prominent initial public offerings to lead the its public company filings division. | 9yrs

Dentons has plans to form an alliance with Brazilian firm Vella Pugliese Buosi Guidoni - well known for its civil litigation work on high-profile cases and its work with local companies on M&A. | 9yrs

An activist investor in Akzo Nobel is making a legal bid to force the removal of the Dulux paint owner's chairman. | 9yrs

United Airlines could once again be facing court action after a giant rabbit died on one of its planes from London to Chicago and was then cremated by the airline within hours of its demise. | 9yrs

Clyde & Co is expanding its Latin American presence with the opening of its first office in Mexico via a merger with Mexican law firm Garza Tello & Asociados. | 9yrs

Clients say law firms are not delivering value for mergers and acquisitions deals with cost and inefficiciencies cited as reasons why external advisers fail to deliver. | 9yrs

The Serious Fraud Office has won a long battle over unjustified claims of legal privilege following a ruling in London's High Court which will have profound implications on the practice of corporate internal investigations. | 9yrs

As legal operators chew the fat in Las Vegas, AI is moving down the hype charts. | 9yrs

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

Luxury companies are seeing a rise in IP litigation but some complain of public apathy to the concept of IP rights, according to research for next week's Luxury Law Summit. | 9yrs