New York's high-powered law firm Napoli Bern has seen its tip partners engage in mudslinging - with allegations of prostitutes and affairs doing the rounds. | 11yrs
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Slaughter and May's senior partner Chris Saul has given an interview to The Independent newspaper in which he discusses the traits of the firm which distinguish it from others. | 11yrs
Simmons & Simmons has recruited a five-lawyer team - by recruiting from Linklaters and other firms - to set up the new office early next year. | 11yrs
Austin-based Barron & Newburger is opening offices in California, Colorado and New York through the recruitment of four new lawyers. | 11yrs
The 800-lawyer firm King & Spalding has recruited two partners to its London office to anchor a European capital markets practice. | 11yrs
UK Intellectual Property Law firm EIP is expanding in the US and Germany, moving to bigger offices in both jurisdictions. | 11yrs
The next Law Society president has warned firms to move out of commoditised work such as conveyancing. | 11yrs
Morgan Lewis today announced the arrival of 226 partners and more than 525 other lawyers, legal professionals, and staff from Bingham McCutchen. | 11yrs
Regulators in London have levied fines three times higher than last year. | 11yrs
ABNR has taken the top slot in the Asia Top 50 rankings, nudging Hadiputranto into second place. | 11yrs
Axess Law, the four-branch law firm based in Toronto Walmart stores, is to open seven more outlets in the city in the next six months before expanding across Canada. | 11yrs
A BBC programme will tonight examine controversial treatment of indebted customers by UK bank RBS and could also look at the role of Clifford Chance which found no evidence of wrong-doing when it was commissioned to investigate. | 11yrs
Dentons has agreed to reduce some of its bills relating to the bankruptcy of Deloitte city by as much as 40 per cent after the intervention of a fee examiner. | 11yrs
Cleary Gottlieb, Paul Weiss and a group of other large US firms have broken with tradition and announced bonuses before Thanksgiving Day, also upping them by as much as 50 per cent. | 11yrs
Martin Singer, the 2012 'Entertainment Lawyer of the Year', helped persuade the National Enquirer to drop a 2005 article in which allegations of sexual misconduct were made against actor Bill Cosby. | 11yrs
Consumers are narrowing the knowledge gap with lawyers and accessing information more 'than ever before', according to Jordan Furlong, a consultant at Edge International. | 11yrs
The Big Four accountancy giant has set up a 20-strong team to work alongside law firms in the private prosecution of fraud cases for businesses. | 11yrs
A website has been launched to link accredited investors with plaintiffs in commercial suits worth between US$10m and $40m. | 11yrs
After a decade at the helm of dispute resolution in Guernsey, Simon Davies and Mathew Newman discuss the main trends of the past ten years in the field of litigation. | 11yrs
After a torrid week of privacy issues for Uber, the company has turned to Hogan Lovells for advice. | 11yrs