A United Nations court has put restrictions on Australia, ordering its security service not to spy on communications between East Timor and its legal advisers. | 12yrs
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Administrators for Lehman Brothers in the UK are expecting to be left with a surplus of £5b, after paying all costs including at least £295m in legal fees. | 12yrs
The number of times that UK-based law firms were seen to be facilitating or perpetrating possible money laundering more than doubled between 2012 and 2013. | 12yrs
Northern Irish lawyers are up in arms over proposed cuts to the legal aid budget and have voiced anger at the Minister of Justice. | 12yrs
Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court might step in to debunk the “fraud on the market” theory which, according to a new study conducted by the Institute for Legal Reform, results in class-action lawyers receiving more than their fair share of fees. | 12yrs
The country is expected to finally tackle telecoms companies dominating the marketplace. | 12yrs
Competition is increasing across Canada as lawyers gear up to gain rights to practice across common and civil law jurisdictions. | 12yrs
Australia is being urged to set up a world-leading legal regime in the fast-developing area of unmanned aircraft law by the Australian Certified UAV Operators Association (ACUO). | 12yrs
Accountancy giant PwC has established a new law firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Immigration Law LLP, by taking in the staff and resources of the Bomza Law Group. | 12yrs
London's High Court is due to decide in December if individual Dewey & LeBoeuf partners are responsible for loans they took out with Barclays Bank or whether the estate of the failed firm is liable. | 12yrs
Big Four accountancy firm EY is planning to spread its Asian legal network into Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Korea. | 12yrs
Carmel Mulhern is Group General Counsel of Telstra Corporation, Australia's largest telecoms and media company. She discusses the challenges of running a 200 strong legal team with The Global Legal Post. | 12yrs
Goldman Sachs has cut the amount of legal fees it expects to pay beyond its existing reserves by about US$400m. | 12yrs
As corporate counsel are seen to have won the leading hand, many law firms are cutting hourly rates, capping prices and working harder to compete on price. | 12yrs
The LeClairRyan law firm in Richmond, Virginia has launched a unit dealing with the rapidly growing area of unmanned aircraft. | 12yrs
Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie has shut up shop with only a skeleton crew remaining in Montreal to wind down operations. | 12yrs
Slaughter and May has come a clear first in a stock market listing published in The Lawyer. | 12yrs
The number of legal professionals working in the City of London has fallen by 18,000 since 2008, according to recruitment agency Randstad Financial and Professional. | 12yrs
The two London firms were in discussions to create a £60 million law firm. | 12yrs
The proportion of US lawyers working part-time fell from 6.2 to 6.1 per cent in 2013, even though most large firms offer the possibility. | 12yrs