The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has decided to go ahead with a keynote speech delivered by a senior White House official - despite opposition by several members who claim the administration has been hostile to immigrants. | 11yrs
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Iberian law firm Uría Menéndez - Proença de Carvalho advised Cofidis Participations on the acquisition of Banif Mais | 11yrs
Cherie Blair, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, has talked of the enduring business significance of the Magna Carta as part of the 800th anniversary celebrations of the sealing of the document. | 11yrs
The independent Australian firm has introduced fixed fees and made another top hire. | 11yrs
The 'jaundiced eye' through which UK lawyers view the US law practices in London is one of the main factors contributing to the difficulties facing US law firms there, according to Joe Conroy, Cooley's chief executive officer. | 11yrs
Two leading law firms in the Baltics have rebranded to strengthen their offering across the region. | 11yrs
The outgoing head of the O'Melveny & Myers London office - 41-year old, Nigerian-born Solomon Wifa - joins Wilkie Farr & Gallagher today, bringing strength to the UK private equity and funds group. | 11yrs
A UK academic study designed to find how the top end of employers recruit has found that law and finance firms 'continue to be heavily dominated at entry level by people from more privileged socioeconomic backgrounds'. | 11yrs
Business law firm Hall & Wilcox has hired an additional 37 team members, all coming from Sparke Helmore. They join a senior associate and five partners who moved to the firm in April. | 11yrs
The European Commission has published its first Solvency II third-country equivalence decisions, and they include a few surprises, says Chris Finney of Cooleys. | 11yrs
BLP has beefed up its global corporate finance capacity by appointing a two partner US securities team in London. | 11yrs
The 4,000-person international firm will be called Eversheds Deutschland following the merger with the top 50 German firm which has a presence in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. | 11yrs
The Indian government is said to be investing US$50m in speeding up the patent application process - partly as a result of the work of Anand and Anand, one of India's leading patent law firms. | 11yrs
The Atlanta-based US firm which represents half of the Fortune Global 100 has been accused by a plaintiff lawyer of conspiring to hide faulty ignition switches with its client General Motors in the case in which 60 people lost their lives in crashes. | 11yrs
After 24 years at the firm, Mark Crean, the former Freehills chair and deputy senior partner of the combined practice is now on gardening leave and negotiating the precise role he will play at Jones Day. | 11yrs
Pay packages are rising for women on average in the UK - but, while they still typically earn more, men saw their total packages fall 2% last year to £157,000, according to in-house and private practice recruiter Laurence Simons. | 11yrs
Philadelphia law firm Blank Rome has acquired Texan intellectual property boutique Wong, Cabello, Lutzch, Rutherford & Brucculeri. | 11yrs
The National Cannabis Bar Association is to be launched at the end of this month with board members from six US states and an annual membership fee of $150. | 11yrs
The firm concluded the transaction yesterday for what is the tenth Fibra to go public since inception four years ago. | 11yrs
Spain comes top of the league tables run by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) which show that there is one lawyer for every 189 citizens. | 11yrs