The Big Four accountancy firms are 'eating the law firms' lunch' in terms of their relationships with in-house lawyers, according to the former head of Reed Smith, now GC and PNC. | 11yrs
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Ginger Rechel, GC at Tampa International Airport, has stood down amid reports that she is under investigation for breach of the state's open government laws. | 11yrs
Dentons has just appointed the two lawyers from French firm UGGC - Patrick Larrive and Christophe Simmonet - who will run its Casablanca office. | 11yrs
Farney Daniels has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that it will stop threatening law suits to small businesses when it has no intention of initiating them. | 11yrs
London-based personal injury specialist Hodge Jones & Allen has developed a bespoke outcome predictor for its litigation cases with an academic at University College London. | 11yrs
Even if technology is pushing down legal fees in some areas, lawyers in general are in the safest part of the jobs market, according to an analysis of the UK. | 11yrs
Paul Napoli, the convalescing co-founder of Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, is fighting two battles from his sick bed - a defamation case from a former employee and lover and a case over the running of the firm with a fellow partner. | 11yrs
Quindell, the self-styled world's largest publicly listed law firm, saw its shares fall 20% yesterday after the market became concerned about share purchase deals by three directors. | 11yrs
US District Judge Carl Barbier has accused three lawyers of lying - one, Lionel Sutton III who worked inside a claim-handling centre and two from outside. | 11yrs
An Italian lawyer has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence for reading out a death threat in court to the author Roberto Saviano. | 11yrs
A New York judge has dismissed charges of falsifying business records against former leaders at the bankrupt firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf but the cases against them proceed. | 11yrs
Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's nominee for the role of Attorney General, was a partner for nine years in Hogan & Hartson, a predecessor firm of Hogan Lovells. | 11yrs
Universities have been partly behind 'a huge expansion of LLB graduates' and growth 'at a hideous rate', according to the director of Legal Best Practice at the New Zealand Law Society. | 11yrs
A Philippine patents trade association has made an agreement with a technical institute which they believe will increase the number of professional local patent filings. | 11yrs
At least five US law firms are considering launching class actions against the supermarket chain after accounting irregularities were exposed in September. | 11yrs
Online Legal Marketing is launching a tool that 'gives lawyers, law firms and legal marketers the ability to self-publish settlements, verdicts and judgments'. | 11yrs
The Big Six Australia firm is shutting its office in Hong Kong but will still have access to the area through its joint venture with Linklaters. | 11yrs
The Ivory Coast Bar Association has followed through on its threats against international US law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and begun legal proceedings. | 11yrs
There were 454 reports of bogus law firms made in the eight months to the end of August to the English and Welsh regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). | 11yrs
Top 25 UK law firm Irwin Mitchell is making its sixth purchase since becoming an ABS (Alternative Business Structure) two years ago by acquiring Berkeley Law in London's Mayfair. | 11yrs