Prime Minister David Cameron has unveiled plans to shield British soldiers who have served abroad from 'spurious' lawsuits brought forward by British law firms. | 10yrs
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One of the UK's most esteemed family lawyers, Richard Parry, may be forced by a High Court judge to step down from his trusteeship of the Longleat Estate. | 10yrs
Legal uncertainties over the lifting of sanctions that could take several weeks to clarify mean that European companies have delayed buying up Iranian oil. | 10yrs
Pakistan's government has conceded the country has no independent industrial safety law to protect workers, despite a grim history of fatal accidents, and no time frame for developing one. | 10yrs
Law firm Slaughter and May has emerged as one of the best-performing City firms for trainee retention in the Spring 2016 round. | 10yrs
In the latest of China's crackdowns on its legal sector, detained Swedish legal aid worker Peter Dahlin has been shown on Chinese state television apparently confessing to carrying out illegal acts and seeking to undermine the Chinese state. | 10yrs
After two decades of stalled negotiations, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced that foreign lawyers will soon be granted the right to practice in India. | 10yrs
A senior Melbourne lawyer is facing accusations that he sexually harassed a female colleague over seven months last year, allegedly sending her explicit photos and bombarding her with unwelcome, sexually explicit text messages. | 10yrs
Motoring insurance and services group the Automobile Association (AA) has announced that its legal services offering, AA Law, has failed to take off and will exit the market. | 10yrs
Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Linklaters and King & Wood Mallesons have been appointed as advisers for Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank's (CYBG) planned public listing. | 10yrs
The former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (pictured) has left Houston-based law firm Bracewell & Giuliani and joined international law firm Greenberg Traurig. | 10yrs
A recent survey has shown a huge disparity between firms in the proportion of training contracts they award each year to paralegal employees. | 10yrs
On Thursday, New York-based legal services firm Axiom announced an agreement to acquire the general counsel business of Toronto-based law firm Cognition. | 10yrs
A US court has ruled against Samsung Electronics in the most recent patent case between the electronic giants and long-time competitor Apple. | 10yrs
Volunteer student lawyers at Avon & Bristol Law Centre who are working to overturn UK Department of Work and Pensions 'fit for work' rulings are winning a staggering 96 per cent of their case load. | 10yrs
Since launching its dedicated litigation department in 2012, energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has reduced its annual litigation caseload by almost one third. | 10yrs
Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has announced the expansion of its specialist Middle East offering with the launch of three new Associations in Riyadh, Beirut and Kuwait City. | 10yrs
An upcoming lawsuit in which a US casino operator will seek damages from its cybersecurity contractor adds a new layer to the data breach 'blame game'. | 10yrs
Only days after the resignation of William Boss, European practice head of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), Taylor Wessing has announced it has hired KWM chief operating officer for Europe and Middle East Rachel Reid. | 10yrs
Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index has ranked Pinsent Masons as the fifth best overall employer for LGBT staff, the highest ranking obtained by any UK law firm. | 10yrs