Former executive Martin Shkreli yesterday replaced his legal team with a New York lawyer whose past clients have included former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and rapper Jay-Z. | 10yrs
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An Australian High Court judge has weighed in on the current legal and financial turmoil engulfing listed law firm rivals Slater & Gordon and Shine Lawyers. | 10yrs
The German arm of international law firm CMS has become the first foreign firm to open for business in Tehran, after the Obama administration lifted longstanding sanctions against the country two weeks ago. | 10yrs
India's highest court has agreed to review a colonial-era law which criminalises homosexual activity, in a move long awaited by the country's LGBT activists. | 10yrs
In-house departments may soon be facing an exodus of legal talent to law firms, as lawyers seek new opportunities and more varied work. | 10yrs
In a bid to increase profitability, DLA Piper international partners have approved an overhaul of the firm's partner remuneration structure, introducing a points system based on performance. | 10yrs
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined five individuals and two firms a total of £15.5m for their role in unauthorised solicitors' professional indemnity insurance schemes. | 10yrs
On Monday, CMS' UK arm announced internally that energy partner and co-executive partner for Scotland Stephen Millar will take up the role of managing partner at the firm from May. | 10yrs
The British government has announced that it will investigate 'possible discrimination' against black and minority ethnic (BAME) defendants in the UK criminal justice system. | 10yrs
With a new office opening in Brisbane, US law firm Jones Day will be well positioned to capitalise on the growing wave of project-related disputes springing up from Australia's resource sector downturn. | 10yrs
In a bid to fix its financial health, personal injury law firm Slater and Gordon has brought in management consultants FTI Consulting to discuss restructuring its debt. | 10yrs
Credit Suisse and Barclays have agreed to pay a total of $154.3m to settle federal and state charges that they misled investors in their dark pools, officials said on Sunday. | 10yrs
An undercover activist posing as an adviser to an African mining minister has secured footage of 13 US law firms offering advice on how one could move 'dirty money' into the US through legal loopholes. | 10yrs
Singapore has boosted its status as a global arbitration hotspot after opening a new Singapore International Arbitration Centre in Shanghai's free trade zone. | 10yrs
Facebook is attempting to take its fraud suit against DLA Piper, Milberg, and Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman to New York's highest court, after a mid-level appeals panel rejected the suit last December. | 10yrs
DLA Piper has today entered a combination with 30-lawyer Finnish law firm Peltonen LMR, as it develops its Nordic footprint. | 10yrs
Megafirm Dentons has added a team of lawyers to its financial markets and commercial disputes group from Matthew Arnold & Baldwin in Watford. | 10yrs
Shares in listed Australian personal injury law firm Shine Lawyers plummeted 75 per cent last week, after it confirmed that several of the cases used to form its earnings guidance may not ultimately succeed. | 10yrs
According to a landmark report from the Law Society, the legal industry of the future is coming up fast. Solicitors must figure out how to position themselves in the new legal landscape or risk losing out to competitors. | 10yrs
Law firm Simmons & Simmons is to close its doors in Abu Dhabi and focus instead on consolidating its Dubai office. | 10yrs