Latest legal news

A Hogan Lovells survey of 301 top decision-makers has found that they are most worried by rule of law issues in China, Australia and Bangladesh, in that order. | 11yrs

A programme of government privatisations is fuelling a boom in infrastructure work and M&A activity in New South Wales - a boom which could last a decade, according to Norton Rose Fulbright. | 11yrs

The Italian law firm has changed its image in a rebrand which features leading Italian photographers. | 11yrs

The last 15 years has seen an increased number of actions against corporate counsel, who are held to a higher standard in companies than their fellow executives. | 11yrs

US participants in Chinese joint ventures routinely think they are making 'easy money' because the Chinese partner often appears to have limited interest in the terms of the main contract - but they could lose out nonetheless, says an expert. | 11yrs

According to bank insiders, Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies may have received a mandate to review Lloyds Bank's legal function as one of his first tasks in his new role as chief people, legal and strategy officer. | 11yrs

The 50-partner team which recently announced its departure from Olswang will become the 38th office of the 1,800-lawyer US-based practice on 1 October. | 11yrs

Law firms are made more vulnerable to client losses by neglecting simple issues such as not finding out who replaces someone in the client team when people retire or leave. | 11yrs

The Big Four audit firms have three weeks to respond to a complaint from local lawyers accusing them of practising law in India. | 11yrs

In the aftermath of the Jackson reforms, Costs Lawyers are seeing an increase in their work as law firms struggle to deal with the complexities of budgeting. | 11yrs

The pop music critic at the Financial Times has identified a possible turning point in the portrayal of the professions by Rihanna's seven-minute video 'Bitch Better Have My Money', which features an accountant figure living like a rock star. | 11yrs

A co-operating witness has testified that plans to handle a $50m hole in the accounts of failed firm Dewey & LeBeouf began at a lunch in a Manhattan steakhouse and continued with the staff returning to the office and writing up notes of the scheme. | 11yrs

Personal injury lawyers might see dramatic shifts in their business in the next five to ten years as driverless cars cut out the role of human error in accidents and as law-makers consider new approaches to liability, according to experts. | 11yrs

The 200-lawyer Toronto based Cassels Brock is to appeal a decision made against it last week in the Ontario Superior Court for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and professional negligence. | 11yrs

The manuscript of 'Go Set a Watchman' by Harper Lee - a sequel to 'How to kill a mockingbird' - lay in a bank safe deposit in Alabama for three years until Ms Lee's lawyer went through the box and realised its significance. | 11yrs

Despite an improving economy, some partners at small UK firms are seeing no improvement in pay. | 11yrs

A number of human rights lawyers have been detained by the Chinese authorities in the past week. | 11yrs

Eager to attract foreign investors, Italy is soon to consider extending its fast track court scheme from 12 specialist courts in the country to include most kinds of business partnership in the scheme that now operates just for public companies. | 11yrs

Law firms have entered a new 'age of hyper specialisation' in which in-house lawyers call on a wide band of firms which are each hyper specialists in narrow areas of expertise, according to consultants. | 11yrs