James Kleier, formerly a partner in both Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) and Reed Smith, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months in relation to a decade of non-disclosure of earnings. | 12yrs
Latest legal news
The UK's largest law firms are growing faster than their mid-size counterparts. | 12yrs
Sir Chris Hohn, founder of the Children's Investment Fund, and his ex-wife Jamie have begun proceedings in UK courts which could lead to his paying her US $1.4m | 12yrs
Anton Valukas, chair of Jenner & Block, has been defending the actions of General Motors in front of a US House of Representatives energy and commerce sub-committee, in an inquiry into its fatal ignition problems. | 12yrs
The US Supreme court ruled that substance must determine patentability for an invention, not an abstract idea on a computer. | 12yrs
Legal bills of £2.3m in the year to August 31 took celebrity chef onto the verge of a pre-tax loss, with a bad lease cost dragging the business into the black with a final loss of £6.4m. | 12yrs
Outsourcing company Quindell plc wants 1,500 workers in its legal division staff by the end of 2014. | 12yrs
Thomas Eckardt, legal consultant at Robert Walters in Sydney, is advising law firms to increase pay raises in the near future or risk losing lawyers. | 12yrs
Clifford Chance is set to vote next month on whether or not it should cut down its management committee from 16 to nine. | 12yrs
Watchell Lipton Rosen & Katz topped the list again for the 100 most prestigious law firms, a Vault survey found. | 12yrs
Regulators are expected to increase penalty action against individuals. | 12yrs
Chinese lawyers are facing a new set of restrictions around their online activities. | 12yrs
Bingham McCutchen LLP has expanded its services in China, bringing in Fred Chang, who will join as a partner in Beijing | 12yrs
Fish & Richardson is joining a stream of firms which are operating administrative hubs through plans which will locate 130 personnel in the Minneapolis, Minnesota office. | 12yrs
Arthur Cox has come first on 2014 H1 M&A league tables in Ireland during which period the activity level quadrupled, according to Thomson Reuters data. | 12yrs
A Silicon Valley software company uses the term 'legal ninja' to describe its corporate counsel. | 12yrs
A weekly round-up on moves across the globe. | 12yrs
Hong Kong lawyers are taking to the streets in a rare protest against proposals to brand judges as administrators who must love the state. | 12yrs
Corporate counsel are missing out on the cost-savings and efficiencies which IT can bring. | 12yrs
High legal spend can result from factors within the department and not always the external law firms. | 12yrs