Latest legal news

The Dewey & LeBoeuf saga continues with the bankruptcy trustee trying to clawback a total of $22.5 million from ex-partners, including its ex-Saudi Arabian partner. | 12yrs

A weekly round-up of moves across the globe. | 12yrs

General counsel are playing a greater role in ensuring business is sustainable as changes in legislation and regulation up the ante for corporates. | 12yrs

Barclays Bank will penalise any of its legal advisers which provide less value than expected by setting up a 'value account scheme' which rolls forward the deficit into the next contract. | 12yrs

The California Chief Justice has said that cuts to the courts budget have been so deep that people might be turning away from using them as a result. | 12yrs

Legal reforms which have been promised for the Shanghai free trade zone (SFTZ) have proved slow to appear and could be holding up some investment including a possible local firm tie-up by Linklaters. | 12yrs

Hogan Lovells is following Norton Rose Fulbright in deciding to exit the Czech Republic this year. | 12yrs

Lawyer Violetta Volkova, who represented Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the women sentenced to jail in August 2012, has been ordered to pay the equivalent of US$563 to her former client. | 12yrs

Lawyers have much to learn from financial advisers as to how to meet the full needs of clients rather than providing one-off services with gaps, according to a leading UK firm. | 12yrs

A set of depression guidelines, promoted by the Australian-based Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation (TJMF), has been signed up to by 15 law firms in Australia. | 12yrs

Withers has become the latest European firm to offer a special low-fee start-up packet to entrepreneurs. | 12yrs

Judge Steven Rhodes has asked Jones Day to explain why confidential documents on a mediation process involving the bankrupt city were sent to several creditors. | 12yrs

Legal experts are predicting that Malaysia Airlines will come under pressure to settle with the families of passengers on missing flight MH370 and that the cases will not reach court. | 12yrs

Lawyers are on a steady decline in terms of their representation in the lower house of the Lok Sabha, falling from taking over a third of seats in 1952 to accounting for just six oer cent of candidates in the current elections. | 12yrs

Despite a rise in fraud, prosecutions are decreasing whilst cybercrime charges are increasing. | 12yrs

Law firms are facing major turnover costs if they do not change their management style. | 12yrs

A new report finds that lawyers are becoming more entrepreneurial with over half describing themselves in this way. | 12yrs

A practice of nine solicitor partners and four other senior executives, Gilson Gray, has launched in Edinburgh and Glasgow after recruiting from other firms. | 12yrs

The top independent 100 European firms saw turnover grow by an average of 2.4 per cent, headed by the Iberian-based practice Garrigues. | 12yrs