Lawyers might have received more work if last week's independence vote had gone the other way - but they still expect an increase after the Scots voted to stay in the UK. | 11yrs
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Amounts spent on legal costs rose 22.15 per cent in 2013/14, according to an analysis of the BSE, Bombay Stock Exchange. | 11yrs
Regulators around the world are taking 'a tougher stance' on finance wrong-doers, according to The Financial Times. | 11yrs
'Red circle' practice Commerce & Finance has told The Lawyer magazine that it would 'be happy to see' a deal with an international law firm. | 11yrs
Whilst economic changes contributed to the demise of some firms, David Parnell will tell The Future of Law Summit that issues around strategy, firm culture and financial management were far more detrimental. | 11yrs
Italian corporate boutique Gattai Minoli & Partners has picked up a finance team from Latham & Watkins. | 11yrs
Consumers are unable to receive cheap legal advice due to costly regulation of the legal profession, say academics. | 11yrs
The 13-office, international firm Watson, Farley & Williams, known traditionally for its shipping practice, is opening its 14th office in Dubai. | 11yrs
A rise in the value of sterling has hit the UK top ten law firms, giving them an average revenue fall of 2.7 per cent for the first quarter of the current financial year. | 11yrs
With applications to law schools declining by more than 37 per cent since 2010, they need to rethink their approach to legal education. | 11yrs
One of the law firms representing BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 has provoked a reprimand by the presiding judge who said that the oli company used a tactic that 'would not be appropriate for a college term paper'. | 11yrs
Leaders in law firms need to be supremely effective politicians if they are to succeed, Professor Laura Empson will tell lawyers at the Future of Law Summit. | 11yrs
Of the top 15 places, the US takes 6, followed by Australia (5) and the UK (4) - with the next countries, France and New Zealand, appearing in 18th and 19th places respectively. | 11yrs
Nearly a fifth of UK law firms have confessed to providing a substandard service at some stage in the last year. | 11yrs
A top Philadelphia lawyer has made one of the biggest donations ever to a law school. | 11yrs
Lawyers representing former Dewey & LeBoeuf senior executives have argued that charges should be dismissed as there was a lack of criminal intent. | 11yrs
In total, 22 partners - including a group from Hong Kong - are to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld from Bingham McCutchen. | 11yrs
Kirkland & Ellis has apologised to two mediators, including the chief judge of the Eastern District of Michigan, for 'any unfounded aspersions' they may have cast. | 11yrs
John Michael Farren has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over the attempted murder of his wife who was a partner at Skadden. | 11yrs
China's investigation of a former official, accused of corruption estimated at US$43m and of sustaining at least 11 mistresses, is raising questions for the UK, New Zealand and other countries. | 11yrs