Four former drivers who delivered goods as part of Amazon's Prime Now service have sued the company and its contractor in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Amazon is achieving speed and affordability only by cheating workers. | 10yrs
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The Revenue Share Scheme is open to all partners and all employees, including business services staff. | 10yrs
The new office, which opens in 'early 2016', will be home to arbitration and disputes partner Thomas Weimann. He joins Herbert Smith Freehills from Clifford Chance. | 10yrs
Quindell, the listed company that sold off its legal services arm this year after a rocky experience in the sector, is to return 90 pence per share to shareholders by the close of 2015. | 10yrs
The lawyer whose questioning over the Watergate scandal uncovered the secret recording equipment used by President Richard Nixon has died of lymphoma at the age of 73. | 10yrs
Tunisia's investment minister has said the country intends to double annual inflows of foreign investment over the next five years, to $2.5bn, by pushing through legal reforms and reducing industrial unrest. | 10yrs
The New York State Unified Court System is proposing to amend the Rules of the Court of Appeals to allow foreign lawyers to register as in-house counsel. | 10yrs
A study on gender bias in the legal industry by recruiter Cogence Search has found that lawyers are against the introduction of quotas as a means to solve the problem. | 10yrs
French law firm Jeantet is believed to be taking on a large part of the Gide Loyrette Nouel teams in Kiev and Budapest through the move, which was due to take place yesterday. | 10yrs
The executive committee of Eversheds is moving to execute a decision voted on by the whole partnership to merge with a US practice, with Global 100 practice Foley & Lardner now being seen as one of two favourites. | 10yrs
International litigation specialist Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is to have a presence in Dallas, Texas, through a merger today with 21-lawyer practice Crouch & Ramey. It will become the 18th office in its network. | 10yrs
Charles Bennett, 57, has pleaded guilty to putting the money of family and friends into a Ponzi investment scheme, which he now describes as a 'fiction of my crazed imagination'. | 10yrs
Law firms are being warned to be careful about signing up to cloud service contracts that exclude the provider from liability in case of damage to the data. | 10yrs
Boutiques are starting to fight for the same work as national firms, positioning nationals as their major threat, according to Ted Dwyer of Dwyer Consulting. | 10yrs
Russia and Ukraine are vowing to fight one another in a London court, in a dispute that will test the limits of sovereign-debt litigation and that could have far reaching implications for government bailouts. | 10yrs
Clyde & Co has recruited ten lawyers, including five partners, to its Cape Town and Johannesburg offices, bringing its headcount of lawyers in the country to 30. | 10yrs
Law firms in Australia that have difficulty in moving over to innovative practices are at risk of being left in the margins, according to the Innovation Inertia: 2015 LexisNexis Roadshow Report. | 10yrs
The 725-lawyer practice is opening its 14th office worldwide and its second in California, where it already has an IT-specialist base in Palo Alto. | 10yrs
Embroiled in regulatory investigations, the bank has set aside €1.2bn for litigation costs, is cutting 9,000 jobs and leaving 10 countries as it seeks to reduce the risks to which it is exposed. | 10yrs
A meeting between justice secretary Michael Gove and senior members of City law firms seems to have done little to allay fears that the Ministry of Justice plans to impose some form of levy on City firms to fund the courts. | 10yrs