National law firm Shoosmiths was awarded 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at Legal Week's British Legal Awards ceremony in London on Friday. | 10yrs
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Dentons has announced it will establish its first physical presence in Latin American and the Caribbean, with the news it is considering combining with Colombia's Cárdenas & Cárdenas and Mexico's López Velarde, Heftye y Soria (LVHS). | 10yrs
Winston & Strawn has announced the addition of two partners and one counsel to the firm's Corporate & Finance Department in London. | 10yrs
UK regulators have increased their pursuit of companies found guilty of wrongdoing, with higher fines and more prison sentences. | 10yrs
A leading Turkish lawyer was shot dead yesterday after making a speech urging for a cessation of hostilities between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatists. | 10yrs
The UK Government is today launching a joint campaign with the legal and accountancy industries to raise awareness of the warning signs of money laundering. | 10yrs
An employee of Goldman Sachs hired to develop surveillance systems to detect illegal behaviour has been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly trading inside information. | 10yrs
Clyde & Co intends to overhaul its diversity and inclusion programme, in a bid to improve gender and social representation in its partnership. | 10yrs
A case before California's highest court could mean the end to class-action lawyers receiving a percentage of the payouts they achieve for their clients. | 10yrs
A women who found out she has the same degenerative neurological disease gene as her father, and that her child of five has a 50/50 chance of having inherited the disease, is suing her father's doctors for not informing her before she gave birth. | 10yrs
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is considering a 'fundamental shift away from prescriptive rules' by allowing practising solicitors to give advice from unregulated firms. | 10yrs
Australian law firm Slater & Gordon's shares fell 51 per cent on Thursday, after Chancellor George Osbourne announced proposals to change the legal rights of people injured in motor accidents. | 10yrs
Law firms across the US were giving away turkeys in the run-up to Thanksgiving - including Orlando-based Pendas Law Firm, which has been handing them out for seven years. | 10yrs
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is understood to have advised on 12 out of 28 inversion schemes proposed since 2013, including the latest one in which Pfizer would relocate its head office out of the US and into Ireland. | 10yrs
The two firms expect to merge formally next month, putting their joint private client offering into the UK's top five and creating a business legal services team which puts it into the UK's top 50. | 10yrs
Dentons is merging with OPF Partners, taking on its nine partners and 25 other lawyers. | 10yrs
The 17-fee earner firm ENSafrica has merged with Oxford & Beaumont in Ghana, fulfilling a long-term goal to have a presence in West Africa. | 10yrs
Linda Martin, a director of Conyers, Dill & Pearman, which advises on the laws of Bermuda, the BVI, the Cayman Islands and Mauritius, is to replace Charles Collis as head of the London office. | 10yrs
According to John Hickin, an antitrust lawyer and partner of Mayer Brown JSM, one of Hong Kong's largest firms, some businesses in Hong Kong are still not ready for a competition law that will come into effect on 14 December. | 10yrs
Weil Gotshal & Manges has cut from 12 to eight the number of people it is promoting into the partnership. | 10yrs