Latest legal news

District attorneys, police chiefs and prosecutors across America launched a reinvigorated campaign push for federal legislation that would provide investigators access to hitherto private, encrypted communications. | 10yrs

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has sealed a deal to purchase Botox-maker Allergan for $160 billion, marking the biggest pharmaceutical takeover in history and creating what will be the world's largest drug maker by sales. | 10yrs

An annual survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Counsel in Washington suggests that in-house legal departments may struggle to fill vacant positions, with many candidates failing to fit the bill and low desire for lateral in-house moves. | 10yrs

In research carried out and analysed at Indiana University, lawyers exceeding 60 hours weekly show higher satisfaction levels than others in 10 out of 14 areas. | 10yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills will again have a presence in Riyadh when, next year, it sets up an exclusive association with Nasser Al-Hamdan. | 10yrs

A weekly round-up of moves from around the globe. | 10yrs

The privacy complaints of more than 25,000 Facebook uses are to be reviewed by the Austrian Supreme Court, where it will be decided whether the individuals can make their cases against Facebook as a group class action. | 10yrs

The Treasury has rebuffed critics of the decision to use lawyers from magic circle firms to provide legal counsel over the transfer of the Government's stake in the Eurostar franchise. | 10yrs

Pierre Boivin, M&A and natural resources specialist at the Canadian law firm, has been released after being taken hostage by Islamic extremists in an attack on the Radisson hotel in Mali's capital city of Bamako. | 10yrs

A report from the cross-party group of MPs of the House of Commons Justice Committee has revealed 'grave misgivings' about the criminal courts charge and called for legislation to abolish it. | 10yrs

The London-based Court of Appeal has requested the Court of the Justice of the EU (CJEU) clarify whether EU countries are bound by a previous judgement when constructing national laws on customer data retention. | 10yrs

Thomson Snell & Passmore, based in the UK towns of Dartford and Tunbridge Wells, has been named as the oldest law firm still in operation by the Guinness Book of Records. | 10yrs

A third of the Irish legal top 20 have experienced such an attack in the last year - as evidence emerges that suggests they are more likely to be on the receiving end of these attempts than Irish law firms overall. | 10yrs

Gary Hamp, the London-based Hogan Lovells finance partner who was head of the Hong Kong practice until last year, is jumping over to join Latham & Watkins. | 10yrs

Lawyers need to be careful about clients who try to destroy evidence in the form of social media postings, according to Magistrate Judge Kristen Mix. | 10yrs

Respondents to an Australasian survey cited resistance to change and inadequate IT as their other two main challenges. | 10yrs

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has hosted a Hillary Clinton fundraising event in New York, charging $2,700 to each person who attended 'Conversation with Hillary'. | 10yrs

The US Department of Justice has formally appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the court order that has blocked the president's executive policy on immigration. | 10yrs

Kelly Cosby, co-author of a rap song in honour of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has died from an aggressive form of melanoma weeks after hearing she had passed the New York bar exam. | 10yrs