Latest legal news

An influx of unaccompanied children has thrown the US immigration court into chaos. | 11yrs

Colombia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Sub-Saharan Africa - all of these will be an increasing feature of a luxury lawyer's workload in the next decade, according to Deloitte. | 11yrs

The backlog of patent applications in India will be cleared within 18 months, the Government has vowed. | 11yrs

Lawyers are seen as being low in warmth and trustworthiness - even though they are viewed as highly competent and capable, according to academics at Princeton University. | 11yrs

A US court has ruled that a lawyer could be sued for failing to explain to the client unambiguous terms in a contract negotiated by the client. | 11yrs

Cherie Booth - aka Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK prime minister Tony - is standing down from Matrix, the human rights barristers set she co-founded 14 years ago. | 11yrs

Eric Holder, the man responsible for upping the stakes on the bank fines, is standing down as Attorney General after six years. | 11yrs

Jeantet Associes is the first French law firm to open up in Switzerland through its launch of a Geneva office. | 11yrs

White & Case is expected to create about 100 new positions through its opening of a services centre in Tampa, Florida. | 11yrs

Freshfields, which advised Alibaba on its Hong Kong float and even provided its General Counsel, is missing from the list of firms which advised on the New York flotation and shared £13m legal fees. | 11yrs

The High Court in Dublin upheld a finding of professional misconduct against Gerard Kean, whose clients are said to include Ronan Keating, George Michael and over 40 premier league footballers, over his handling of a case. | 11yrs

Top Mexican law firm Sanchez Devanny has lost a team of labour law lawyers to US firm Ogletree Deakins which opens in Mexico City today. | 11yrs

BP has been turned down in its attempts to reclaim millions of dollars of what it claims are 'excess' compensation payments made to victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. | 11yrs

The United Arab Emirates is maintaining its status as the main base for foreign law firms opening up in the Middle East, according to research from recruiters Fox Rodney Search. | 11yrs

The move makes Miranda the first leading Portuguese firm to establish a local presence in France. | 11yrs

A former partner in a 53-lawyer east coast US law firm has been sued over 'nonexistent work on cases that had already been terminated and/or never existed' over a period of eight years. | 11yrs

A partner and four associates in the restructuring team of King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin are moving to join Dentons. | 11yrs

A leading in-house management consultant has called for the in-house community to create a working group looking at how to keep general counsel out of jail. | 11yrs

The organisation has filed an amicus curiae brief arguing for the protection of Ernst & Young tax documents. | 11yrs