In accordance with growth plans set a year ago, Axess Law, which operates from ten locations in Walmart stores in and around Toronto, is planning to open in Ottowa in early 2016 and hopes to have as many as 18 outlets within 12 months. | 10yrs
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Jones Day pulled ahead of its rival by earning $1.1 billion in 2014, according to a global top 50 ranking from The Lawyer. | 10yrs
Stanley Chesley, who at the height of his career was one of America's top tort lawyers, was attacked along with his wife, judge Susan Dlott, in a robbery at their home over the weekend. | 10yrs
Clifford Chance is transferring 400 back office staff from its main Canary Wharf office to a lower cost building five minutes away. | 10yrs
Baker & McKenzie is putting into effect a growth plan for its North American presence, recognising that only 8 of its 77 offices are located in the US. | 10yrs
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) hosted a major conference focused on sexual offences on Friday 4 December. | 10yrs
The High Court will today judge whether to grant permission for a review of the government's tender for new legal aid contracts. | 10yrs
An assistant district attorney has disclosed that plans are afoot to retry a case against Dewey & LeBoeuf's ex-chair Steven Davis and one two senior ex-colleagues, after a partial victory by the three in court and the dismissal of a deadlocked jury. | 10yrs
ELLINT, the Employment & Labor Law Lawyers International group, has recruited Brussels- and Namur-based specialist Sotra. | 10yrs
The Law Society of Scotland is operating from its Victorian townhouse offices in Drumsheugh Gardens for the last time today. | 10yrs
Lord Chancellor Michael Gove has announced that the controversial criminal courts charge for convicted defendants is to be scrapped from 24 December. | 10yrs
Lawyers from across the US yesterday descended on a courthouse in New Orleans to vie for a potentially lucrative assignment: a role in the huge consumer-fraud litigation facing Volkswagen AG over it emissions scandal. | 10yrs
Watson Farley & Williams says its investment in lateral hires has seen revenues increase, as the firm posted five per cent growth in half-year revenues for the period to 31 October. | 10yrs
City litigators have warned that government investment in London's commercial legal infrastructure is not enough to maintain its reputation as the go-to location for global business disputes. | 10yrs
Mayer Brown has announced that two prominent partners from Baker & McKenzie in Washington, DC — Charles Salem Hallab and Tahan Thraya — have joined the firm as corporate and securities partners. | 10yrs
Linklaters CFO Peter Hickman is among a group of former Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBoS) executives who may face a fresh probe by the financial and regulatory authorities over the bank's collapse. | 10yrs
Mark Jackson, EVP and GC for Dow Jones and SVP and deputy GC for its parent company News Corp, has decided to leave the company. He will stay on in both roles until the end of the month. | 10yrs
In contrast to the Law Society, the SRA has welcomed government proposals to make legal services regulators completely separate from representative bodies. | 10yrs
MPs have overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned debate in the House of Commons that lasted for ten hours. | 10yrs
New analysis from business and financial adviser Grant Thornton shows that the top issue for many family law professionals (21 per cent) remains the increased number of litigants in person (LIPs) due to lack of public funding. | 10yrs