Latest legal news

Disputes boutique Signature Litigation has seen revenue jump by 36 per cent for FY15/16 to £10.2m and continues to invest in lateral hiring with Bryan Cave litigation partner Ioannis Alexopoulos. | 9yrs

Interest in the Canadian legal market from global heavyweights continues as DLA Piper announces it has combined with IP boutique Dimock Stratton. | 9yrs

Squire Patton Boggs has announced it has hired former US House Speaker John Boehner as a strategic advisor. | 9yrs

Standard Chartered Bank Thailand's former head of legal and compliance Nithi Laophulsuk is joining Allen & Overy as a partner. | 9yrs

Private client and real estate firm Forsters has recruited former KWM head of tax Heather Corben into its partnership. | 9yrs

The firm may cull back its equity partnership in an effort to boost profit and re-focus its business. | 9yrs

Clifford Chance is culling its annual trainee intake for the second time in five years. | 9yrs

Some defendants in the FIFA corruption probe are in talks to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors, as a trial in November 2017 looms for those left standing. | 9yrs

The UK's first publicly listed law firm has continued its post-IPO expansion, acquiring Birmingham-based property consultancy Hamer Associates for £2.05 million. | 9yrs

Slater & Gordon is planning to sue Watchstone Group (formerly Quindell) over its troubled acquisition of the firm's UK professional services arm last year. | 9yrs

Whilst many of his age would now be retired from the legal profession, a 75-year-old law student says he has a job lined up at a law firm as soon as he is admitted to the bar. | 9yrs

The firm's global management committee has unanimously selected two partners to succeed long-serving global chair and managing partner Peter Kalis when he retires next year. | 9yrs

A spike in violent crime and murder in Chicago will drag up national figures for 2016, says the NYU Law School's Brennan Centre for Justice. | 9yrs

The UK's highest court hit cinemas around the country on Friday as one of the sets in the latest instalment of the Bridget Jones film franchise. | 9yrs

Football's scandal-plagued governing body has announced that for the first time in its history that it has created a chief compliance officer position and hired a US-educated lawyer for the role. | 9yrs

Hogan Lovells is considering consolidating its three London offices into one new HQ. | 9yrs

Concern is mounting that a decline in M&A activity may place a drag on law firm profits this year. | 9yrs

Ashurst's Frankfurt office has picked up a new tax partner from Jones Day. | 9yrs

McDermott Will and Emery has elected Ira Coleman as its new global chairman, replacing co-chairs Jeffrey Stone and Peter Sacripanti. | 9yrs