Latest legal news

Law firm Ashurst has launched a new integrated global team that will focus on developing legal services innovations for clients. | 10yrs

A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 10yrs

In-house spending on class action defence has rebounded after four years of steady slump, with around 7 per cent more US companies fending off at least one class action lawsuit last year than in 2014. | 10yrs

A pair of Californian coffee sticklers have accused caffeine giant Starbucks of ripping off its customers by deliberately under-filling their morning lattes. | 10yrs

The US Supreme Court has divided 4-4 in a case for the first time since the death last month of Justice Antonin Scalia. | 10yrs

The steel city is aiming to entice the UK's leading firms out of London with cash incentives, while city leaders have been in touch with all the top 100 firms to urge them to consider 'northshoring'. | 10yrs

A new study shows that sales of legal services was worth £25.7bn in the UK in 2015 and that 1 per cent of growth in the sector creates 8,000 jobs. | 10yrs

A new report reveals a major disconnect between how partners and fee-earners at mid-sized firms view where they work, including 'an exaggerated sense of progressiveness among decision-makers'. | 10yrs

Simmons & Simmons is to keep seven out of nine of its lawyers who qualified last month, equating to a retention rate 78 per cent. | 10yrs

International firm Debevoise & Plimpton has announced it is opening an office in Tokyo, with three lawyers relocating from New York. | 10yrs

Lawyers, developers and computer coders spent the weekend battling it out to create innovative products for law centres at the first LawTech hackathon. | 10yrs

A round up of key appointments from across Asia. | 10yrs

New research by a doctorate student at the University of Queensland indicates that private practice lawyers experience the lowest levels of psychological and psychosomatic health and wellbeing among all professionals. | 10yrs

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the last Magic Circle firm to post its trainee retention rate this spring, is to retain 82 per cent of its trainees. | 10yrs

The Legal Cloud Computing Association has released the first set of 21 cloud security standards crafted specifically for the legal industry. | 10yrs

Corporate head Charles Penney has been named Addleshaw Goddard's new senior partner. He replaces Monica Burch, who was first elected to the role in 2010. | 10yrs

In a new pilot scheme to assess whether judges' sentencing remarks should be broadcast live, television cameras will be allowed for the first time in the Crown Court. | 10yrs

Against the advice of family lawyers, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed that from Monday divorce fees are set to rise by 34 per cent. | 10yrs

Though a sizeable portion of UK barristers look upon a Brexit favourably, the vast majority of law students are against the move. | 10yrs