Inhouse lawyers may well find themselves looking into the 'new frontier of mobile device forensics' in their next investigation or law case, according to IT experts. | 12yrs
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Optimistic M&A predictions for 2014 could turn out to be seriously mis-placed, according to Allen & Overy which instead forecasts a ' new world with new rules and new investor priorities and sentiments'. | 12yrs
The country is looking to beef up its regulatory structure. | 12yrs
The Brazilian regulator has made a move against the two largest shareholders of Oi and Portugal Telecom. | 12yrs
UK law firms are bypassing university and hiring students from university after a campaign by the UK Government to encourage companies to take on apprentices. Is this the way forward for NewLaw? Jon Gregson discusses the Weightmans approach. | 12yrs
The US Supreme Court has, for the first time, considered an issue over an investment treaty arbitration in a dispute between BG Group and the Republic of Argentina. Lisa Richman of McDermott Will & Emery discusses the possible outcome. | 12yrs
Last Cawthra Feather has revealed itself as the law firm which has relaunched itself after a Twitter campaign as LCF Law. | 12yrs
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia is consulting legal experts after the country's Justice Minister was debarred from practising law for six months for contempt of court. | 12yrs
While Stephen Harper's government in Canada is seen as taking a tough line on public sector pay, one group - federal lawyers - appears to be getting a better deal. | 12yrs
Apple has used a 'campaign of character assassination' against Michael Bromwich, the lawyer appointed to monitor its competition policies, according to a US Department of Justice attorney. | 12yrs
The International Criminal Court's prosecution of Uhuru Kenyatta - who would be the first sitting president to sit before it - is being undermined by the prosecution and the Kenya government, according to a barrister for victims. | 12yrs
The legal marketplace could see green shoots in 2014 but there is no comfort for senior lawyers not pulling their weight. | 12yrs
Companies using personal data in the Ukraine need to comply with new rules issued this month. | 12yrs
A philantrophist has donated $10 million to Harvard Law School, the largest donation the law school has ever received. | 12yrs
As US states start to allow marijuana to be taken for recreational use within the confines of the law, lawyers are asking how employers will handle the issue in practice. | 12yrs
Lawmakers have taken the first steps to making changes in the outdated legislation. | 12yrs
In a surprise to some observers, the Fifth Circuit appeals court in New Orleans has made a decision which would see BP pay compensation to some claimants who suffered no loss as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. | 12yrs
As legal recruitment looks likely to grow, more lawyers are expected to use LinkedIn and other kinds of social media as part of their recruitment processes. | 12yrs
Basil Hwang, managing partner of Dechert in Hong Kong, joined the Zhong Lun associate firm, Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson. at the start of January. | 12yrs
The 700-lawyer US practice Duane Morris is opening a five-lawyer office in Shanghai, targeted particularly at Chinese companies expanding outwards. | 12yrs