Davenport Lyons is the latest UK law firm to go into administration. The London-based firm ceased to exist last Friday and its client database and a number of its partners have been picked up by London private client firm Gordon Dadds. | 12yrs
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Black lawyers make up just 37 per cent of South African lawyers, a statistic which is reflected in the largely white legal teams participating in the Oscar Pistorius trial. | 12yrs
Appleby, the offshore firm, has become the first offshore law practice to obtain a licence to offer offshore legal services in China. | 12yrs
Ethics experts are expecting that US state bar associations will introduce many more rules on the use of social media after the American Bar Association gave permission to court lawyers to review 'a juror's internet presence'. | 12yrs
Posts in law, accountancy and medicine are the most vulnerable in the face of developing technology, according to a former leading UK political adviser. | 12yrs
Businesses using the virtual currency Bitcoin have become so concerned by the growth in regulatory steps that they fear falling foul of them more than losing the currency by theft. | 12yrs
Businesses in the US are spending 'more money on legal fees to fight high-stakes litigation', according to a report in the Houston Chronicle. | 12yrs
Bank of America has been asked to pay US$13b to settle allegations relating to the sale of mortgage bonds. | 12yrs
Lawrence Graham (LG) has renounced its licence to practice as a foreign firm in Singapore, making invalid its alliance with local practice PK Wong & Associates. | 12yrs
Carey Olsen has doubled its manpower in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands [BVI] with the appointment of three extra lawyers. | 12yrs
A fast-growing law firm is planning to offer 'seamless advice' through the establishment of a close relationship with an accountancy practice. | 12yrs
Scott London was sentenced to 14 months yesterday after pleading guilty to insider trading last year, when he was still a senior partner at professional services company KPMG. | 12yrs
The UK family justice system is getting a facelift, and it includes using trainee lawyers to ease divorce proceedings. | 12yrs
New inductees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) were announced this week with six leading minds in the theory and practice of law making the list. | 12yrs
Toronto-based Axess Law has begun opening a series of offices in Walmart branches, offering low prices and hours to match shop opening times. | 12yrs
Campaigners, including colleagues of deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, are pressing for an investigation to be begun in Norway to discover how he came to die in detention in Russia in 2009. | 12yrs
TAGLaw, an international alliance of independent law firms, has announced the addition of Florida-based law firm Delaney Partners, which will form The Bahamas branch. | 12yrs
Norton Rose Fulbright is pulling out of Prague on 1 May after deciding that the Czech market is not strong enough to sustain its presence. | 12yrs
Female lawyers and judges are earning just 82 per cent of what their male counterparts receive, according to research from Harvard University. | 12yrs
Top bankruptcy law firm Stutman Treister & Glatt is closing as of 1 May. | 12yrs