Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has recruited a new head for its London office who will also be charged with growing its European private equity practice. | 12yrs
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The Italian justice minister is planning a series of justice reforms, including changes which could see the timing for civil trials come down from at least three years to just one. | 12yrs
The firm has appointed Denise Hanna to the post. | 12yrs
Quinn Emanuel has recruited competition litigation partner Boris Bronfentrinker from Hausfield & Co in order to launch a London anti-trust team. | 12yrs
Announcing that it expects to exceed £750m of revenues this year, the alternative business structure (ABS) Quindell has said it expects to hit £1b 'in due course'. | 12yrs
On the first anniversary of its merger on 1 November, King & Wood Mallesons will no longer add 'SJ Berwin' to its name in the EMEA zone. | 12yrs
The firm had been looking for a replacement after former friend August & Debouzy dropped out in March. | 12yrs
Families bereaved by the Troubles will take court action against the State if cuts hinder investigations, a high profile lawyer has warned. | 12yrs
The former chief privacy officer of the US Department of Homeland Security Mary Ellen Callahan says big data issues cut across all industries. | 12yrs
A growing number of organisations working in the legalised area of marijuana are finding that lawyers, bankers and others are unwilling to do business with them. | 12yrs
In an unusually active period covering the first eight months of this year, when 49 companies joined the main UK stock market, Freshfields acted for more sponsors and Linklaters for more bankers than other firms. | 12yrs
The US firm was appointed by the action group acting for several hundred businesses which claim to have been let down by the bank's global restructuring division. | 12yrs
A law firm based in the Netherlands is soon to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Dutch families who lost relatives when Malaysia Airlines MH17 went down over Ukraine in July. | 12yrs
The Princeton Review has named the toughest law schools to get into with Yale and Stanford leading the pack. | 12yrs
Some 720 of the Korean civil servants who have retired in the last five years have been taken on by law firms, conglomerates and financial companies. | 12yrs
Scotland joins Azerbaijan and Armenia at the bottom of the league for fewest female judges in Europe, according to the Council of Europe. | 12yrs
Leading London firm Leigh Day has been supported by a London court in a dispute with another law firm about the representation of Nigerian clients seeking compensation from oil giant Shell. | 12yrs
Only 27 per cent of starting salaries at the largest firms are pegged at US$160,000 - a significant fall back from 2009 when nearly two-thirds of such salaries were at this level. | 12yrs
Chicago's Northwestern University School of Law has jumped from 9th to 1st place amongst US law schools when ranked for career prospects. | 12yrs
The newly-formed e-discovery practice of KPMG in Canada has acquired Montreal-based Ledjit Consulting. | 12yrs