Latest legal news

While other banks continue to be dragged down by their legal provisions, Morgan Stanley saw profits rise dramatically as its legal costs shrank back. | 11yrs

With no decrease in the amount of work, the telecoms company puts it down to competitive tenders. | 11yrs

A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs

Whilst 2013 was the highest year on record for law firm mergers, last year saw a fall in the number joining forces. | 11yrs

Clifford Chance has been criticised for its response to a 20-minute YouTube video in which a trainee, speaking in both English and Arabic, claims that Islam is better than Western ideologies and attacks Muslims who have been 'colonised' by the West. | 11yrs

Cyber threats are on law firms' risk radar but few are prepared for a significant event, according to Marsh's 2014 Global Law Firm Cyber Survey. | 11yrs

The law firm has taken on lawyers from a local firm, including the founder. | 11yrs

Two partners from Swedish firm Delphi are among a team of six lawyers through which the accountancy giant is launching its legal presence in the country. | 11yrs

Research into the views of nearly 1,000 lawyers in Australia has shown widespread scepticism about whether their law firm employers genuinely care about their health. | 11yrs

The New York-based, 470-lawyer firm is said to be planning to shut down its two Asia offices, in Shanghai and Hong Kong - and seems likely to lose most of its four partners, 10 lawyers and 18 support staff located there. | 11yrs

As Canadian law firms make plans for 2015 - a year which could see the go-ahead for ABSs - one leading lawyer predicts that they will diversify in order not to fall victim to the specialist approach which brought down Heenan Blaikie last year. | 11yrs

MEPs have raised concerns about interception of phone calls between lawyers and their clients by intelligence services across Europe. | 11yrs

The law firm has recruited a Swedish lawyer to help attract Scandanavian investors and individuals to Portugal. | 11yrs

A new firm of notaries, Zuidbroek Corporate Law Notaries, is being set up by a group of specialists who left the Benelux practice De Brauw. | 11yrs

Between tomorrow and early summer, BP will argue before the US District Court in New Orleans that its fine relating to the 2010 oil leak should be reduced below the maximum US$13.7b. | 11yrs

Last year's record Eurobond issue from Africa is expected to lead into similar levels again in 2015, according to Allen & Overy. | 11yrs

The lawyers claimed resignation was necessary to preserve the honour of the judiciary. | 11yrs

Kuwait and the UAE are leading the Gulf states in what looks likely to be a year of reforms to help local and foreign businesses, according to the co-founder of a new law firm in the region, Meysan Partners. | 11yrs

Snoop Dogg would be advised to avoid a Northern Irish judge who has taken a dim view of the rapper, calling him a 'misogynist wretch.' | 11yrs