Quebec's provincial government said over the weekend that it would today table a special law to force government lawyers back to work. | 9yrs
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The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has agreed new measures to improve standards of advocacy within Youth Courts. | 9yrs
The Criminal Bar Association in New Zealand has said it is in favour of extending the time limit for charging someone with homicide. | 9yrs
City-headquartered law firm RPC has advised Zebra A/S, the Copenhagen-based parent company of Danish homewares retailer Flying Tiger Copenhagen, on its acquisition of UK stores. | 9yrs
Family law practice SFL has received private equity funding to grow its practice. | 9yrs
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's entire Paris real estate team has defected to Jones Day. | 9yrs
Whistleblowers need better legal protection because they are far easier to identify in the digital era, warns a report just published by media lawyers. | 9yrs
The Association of Lawyers in Congo are to suspend their professional activities for three days to denounce the detention of their colleague, Ludovic Desire Essou. | 9yrs
The new head of the Singapore Management University's School of Law, at age 35, is the youngest to hold the post. | 9yrs
Ontario's legal regulator has proposed significant changes to the fees lawyers take when they refer clients. | 9yrs
Nine Norton Rose partners have joined Baker Botts in Houston on the same day their firm revealed a merger with Chadbourne & Parke. | 9yrs
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) believes allegations from retired police officer Arthur Lascañas' that President Rodrigo Duterte paid vigilantes for every kill in Davao City is a possible basis to file an impeachment complaint against him. | 9yrs
LeClairRyan has expanded into Illinois, opening an office in Chicago. | 9yrs
The Quebec City mosque attacked in January by a gunman who killed six worshippers is hiring its own lawyers to observe the trial of the accused shooter, a member of the congregation said on Tuesday. | 9yrs
A popular Irish TV National Lottery game show had to be stalled when the ball got stuck between two numbers as one lucky participant got the chance to spin a wheel and win up to half a million euros. | 9yrs
Verizon and Yahoo have agreed to a $4.48bn cut-price merger deal despite a series of cybersecurity breaches at the latter which threatened to sink the union. | 9yrs
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is to merge with New York-based Chadbourne & Parke. | 9yrs
Republic of Ireland law firm, Ronan Daly Jermyn and Northern Ireland law firm John McKee have announced a strategic alliance in a bid to provide an all Ireland legal service for clients who trade in both parts of the island. | 9yrs
European law firm Fieldfisher is to open an office in Amsterdam. | 9yrs
Pan-African law firm Bowmans has appointed London-based lawyer, Nicolas Bonnefoy, as a partner in its Oil & Gas Sector Group. | 9yrs