Apple's win in the European Courts, which paves the way for retailers to trade mark store layouts, is groundbreaking. But it may founder on attempts to enforce it, according to industry insiders. | 12yrs
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Malta will shortly publish a draft law to regulate the legal profession, the Justice Minister has announced. | 12yrs
The firm has landed two more partners for its Hong Kong operations, bringing the total number of Bingham partners defecting to 28. | 12yrs
A leading academic has attacked the Supreme Court, saying it needs major reforms. | 12yrs
Victims of counterfeiting need to act in unison if they are to get results, says Dr Paolo Beconciniand Alessandra Moroni. | 12yrs
Many top brands are taking steps to register as 'well-known' in Russia, says Vladislav Arkhipov and Elena Bedareva of Dentons. | 12yrs
Preserving brand image in Europe via price guidance and internet sales limitations is getting increasingly challenging for brand owners by Miranda Cole, Partner, and Laurie-Anne Grelier, Associate, at the Global Branded Goods Practice, Covington & Burling LLP | 12yrs
The 21 lawyer Belfast firm has merged in a no money transaction. | 12yrs
An influx of unaccompanied children has thrown the US immigration court into chaos. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs
The backlog of patent applications in India will be cleared within 18 months, the Government has vowed. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs
Eric Holder, the man responsible for upping the stakes on the bank fines, is standing down as Attorney General after six years. | 12yrs
Jeantet Associes is the first French law firm to open up in Switzerland through its launch of a Geneva office. | 12yrs
White & Case is expected to create about 100 new positions through its opening of a services centre in Tampa, Florida. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs
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. | 12yrs