Other banks could feel themselves under greater pressure to settle with regulators now that JP Morgan has become the first - through a deal worth US$100m - to settle the civil lawsuits against it. | 11yrs
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Michael V Ciresi, a leading New York and Minneapolis litigator who has won US$12b for clients over his career, is leaving his 230-lawyer firm to set up a new small practice. | 11yrs
The powers of the GC at the US's famous National Labor Relations Board will be clipped if Republicans in the Senate - now dominated by Republicans - are successful in changing the basis on which it operates. | 11yrs
London-based, New Zealand-born litigation partner Anthony Dutton, 49, has died suddenly and, according to the notice placed on the Dechert website, 'will be greatly missed and thought of often'. | 11yrs
The Egyptian authorities have responded with indignation to statements from UK-based human rights lawyer Amal Clooney that she was threatening with arrest for criticising the Egyptian justice system. | 11yrs
ALM, the owner of The American Lawyer, is to acquire Summit Professional Networks - in a step beyond legal publishing. | 11yrs
The announcement in one day by 23 different law firms that they are taking on 43 new lawyers might be seen as a sign of recruitment trends for the year to come. | 11yrs
The mayor of Surabaya, the departure point for crashed flight QZ8501, has offered to deliver advice through local academics to grieving families after it crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December with 162 people aboard. | 11yrs
The rich are getting richer in the Am Law 100 law firms as the number of partners taking home more than US$10million a year has gone up. | 11yrs
The 166-partner UK law firm Kennedys is entering a co-operation agreement with another insurance specialist, AnJie Law Firm of Shanghai and Beijing. | 11yrs
The law firm which acts for Garmin, the global GPS specialist, is planning to move into new premises next year which will use biometric security and other techniques to give added protection to client data. | 11yrs
US-based, 230-lawyer practice Brown Rudnick has signed collaboration agreements with two firms in the UAE which operate in Beirut and Dubai. | 11yrs
A new firm, Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, has been created by the merger of two Pacific Northwest practices - Miller Nash and Graham & Dunn. | 11yrs
The office, planned for several years, will be run by corporate and disputes expert Bijal Chhatrapati, who joins the practice from Singhi & Co. | 11yrs
Legal entrepreneurs and White House officials feature prominently in the new '30 under 30 Law and Policy list' - including the first-named , Daniel Lewis, whose business Ravel Law is being used in half the top US law firms. | 11yrs
Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer, says that she was warned she would be arrested if she returned to Cairo - after she authored a report that criticised the Egyptian judicial system. | 11yrs
Lex Caribbean, the regional law firm, has set up its Entrepreneurial Business Unit (EBU) in Jamaica as the Jamaican government seeks to ease the path of new small businesses. | 11yrs
Boston-based Morgan Lewis & Bockius has increased the number of pro bono clients it is helping by 500, to take the total to 1,500, through its assumption of over 500 lawyers from Bingham McCutchen at the end of last year. | 11yrs
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has vowed to begin disbarment proceedings against the lawyers who have made claims about him and Prince Andrew - and he is also threatening a possible defamation action. | 11yrs
Some of the most successful firms in the market could relax too much in 2015, paying too much to associates and on the hiring of new laterals, according to a leading consultant. | 11yrs