Latest legal news

The UK's data regulator has handed out its largest fine to date for a serious data breach by the telecommunications company. | 9yrs

The managing partner of Hogan Lovells' Hamburg office has resigned over claims of illegal surveillance made by an employee of former client EWE Group. | 9yrs

General counsel have been giving their thoughts on how law firms need to shape up for the GC Futures Summit 2016. | 9yrs

Dentons has officially launched its free to use Nextlaw Global Referral Network and has signed up 283 member firms and over 18,500 lawyers. | 9yrs

Six months after he announced his move to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Ashurst has announced it is holding on to London regulatory partner James Perry. | 9yrs

Embattled firm Slater & Gordon cut 640 jobs in the UK last year, according to its 2015/16 accounts. | 9yrs

Goodwin Procter has confirmed that it is recruiting a team of lawyers from Shearman & Sterling for the Private Equity Practice in the Paris office. | 9yrs

After receiving a licence at the start of this year, Burford Capital has launched its own Alternative Business Structure, Burford Law, with the hire of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld's Tom Evans. | 9yrs

After running against SJ Berwin veteran Gareth Amdor, former Mallesons partner Tim Bednall has been elected as King & Wood Mallesons' new managing partner for Europe and the Middle East. | 9yrs

The French law firm has made its move partly in response to Brexit. | 9yrs

Increasing numbers of companies are disclosing Brexit risks in the UK's run-up to leaving Europe. | 9yrs

Irish law firm McCann FitzGerald has invested in artificial intelligence to speed up its processes in a range of areas. | 9yrs

Dentons is the new addition to this year's most feared litigation firms, new research reveals. | 9yrs

Baker & McKenzie's London office has upped the salaries of its NQ lawyers to £72,000, while at Kirkland & Ellis London NQ pay packets swell to over £140,000 as the pound tanks. | 9yrs

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

GCs looking to move up in the company need to develop new skillsets, says recruitment chief Clare Butler. | 9yrs

London-based law firm Howard Kennedy has introduced a penalty system in which lawyers - including partners - who fail to clock up seven hours of work per day will have their computers blocked. | 9yrs

Plaintiff lawyers who helped negotiate a potential $10bn settlement with VW in the emissions case fired back at critics who say they are asking for over $300m in fees for work that draws on work by the Justice Department and federal regulators. | 9yrs

Dentons has appointed Neal Livingston, former managing director and general manager of global trade and transactions at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, as its global chief financial officer. | 9yrs