Latest legal news

Lawyers who don't log enough hours each day may find their quarterly drawings withheld under a new disciplinary system at DLA Piper. | 9yrs

Singapore managing partner Shaun Lascelles is the latest casualty in this week's ongoing Ashurst exodus. | 9yrs

Nick Thomas is to stand uncontested for a fifth five-year term as senior partner at insurance specialist Kennedys. | 9yrs

Mayer Brown's Brazilian arm has opened a new office in the country's capital and hired a former attorney general and confidant of ousted president Dilma Rousseff as a partner in its litigation and compliance practice. | 9yrs

The firm is following up its Shanghai opening with another low-cost legal services centre in Melbourne. | 9yrs

Lord Chancellor Liz Truss has today backed a £1 billion programme to extend online courts to criminal offences. | 9yrs

Around six large law firms are advising on Bayer AG's $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto Co, the largest all-cash transaction in history. | 9yrs

Elite firm Slaughter and May has signed a deal with AI start-up Luminance Technologies to develop new intelligent technologies for M&A work. | 9yrs

Abu Dhabi managing partner Alastair Holland is the latest partner to ditch Ashurst in favour of a US firm. | 9yrs

The firm's EMEA boss Peter Crossley has confirmed that he will step down from the helm at the end of this year. | 9yrs

Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has entered into an association with Colombian firm Posse Herrera Ruiz. | 9yrs

The Chicago-headquartered firm has announced it is opening a new office in the city-state to strengthen its Global Transportation Finance (GTF) practice. | 9yrs

Political risk is fast becoming one of the top concerns for global companies, GC Futures delegates will hear. | 9yrs

Fourteen women partners at New York-headquartered firm Chadbourne & Parke have rebuffed a discrimination lawsuit filed on their behalf by a former colleague. | 9yrs

The firm wants to recapture lost talent among women who've left the firm for extended periods of time, including those who have left to have children. | 9yrs

BigLaw firm Kirkland & Ellis has hired all 17 lawyers at elite Washington DC boutique Bancroft. | 9yrs

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

The successor company is building its first legal panel since the division of Hewlett Packard last year. | 9yrs

A new report from KPMG has found that many top company executives want in-house legal leaders to take on more responsibilities outside the legal department. | 9yrs