Latest legal news

Yigal Arnon, founder of the 140-lawyer firm Yigal Arnon & Co and former lawyer to ex prime minister Ehud Olmert, has died and will be buried today. | 12yrs

Freshfields has relocated its global head of arbitration from Hong Kong to Singapore in a move to increase its work in the growing Singapore market. | 12yrs

Organisations are becoming more likely to experiment with 'relatively undeveloped legal and judicial systems' in emerging markets, according to Allen & Overy. | 12yrs

Leading securities lawyer Joe Groia and the Law Society of Upper Canada are pitted against each other this week in the Ontario Divisional Court over claims that he should have a two-month suspension. | 12yrs

Doughty Street Chambers has sent congratulations to Hollywood star George Clooney and barrister Amal Alanmuddin on their engagement. | 12yrs

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

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