Latest legal news

JP Morgan is due to announce next week that it will switch another US$400m to its legal reserves after being fined a record US$2.6b for not reporting suspicions over Bernie Madoff. | 12yrs

A legal practice is promising to reveal its identity in a week's time after launching a teaser Twitter campaign in the UK. | 12yrs

LegalZoom - which claims to be the most recognised legal brand in the US - has reached an agreement with Permira for a US$200m investment from the private equity company. | 12yrs

The woman who became Saudi Arabia's first female registered lawyer in November has just opened an employment and business disputes practice in Jeddah. | 12yrs

Deutsche Bank is under pressure from the German financial regulator to move its general counsel, Richard Walker, a former partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. | 12yrs

Bilateral Investment Treaties are exploding around the world as governments seek to trade. Russell Thirgood of McCullough Robertson discusses the Australian perspective. | 12yrs

UK accountants expect to be able to under-cut law firms by about 30 per cent if, as expected, the market for probate is opened up by the Lord Chancellor. | 12yrs

Demand is booming among clients of Scottish law firms for advice on the legal implications of the Scottish independence referendum on 18 September. | 12yrs

A registered sex offender - who graduated third in his law school class at the University of Kentucky - is being blocked in his attempts to take bar exams. | 12yrs

Australasian Legal Business is closing its online legal breaking news service and magazine in Australia. | 12yrs

Washington DC-based law firm Winston & Strawn is expected to open its doors in a new office in Taipei in March. | 12yrs

The 'no win, no fee' phrase should be abandoned as law firms are abusing it, says the Legal Ombudsman. | 12yrs

Record levels of regulatory action in 2013 are triggering a frantic search for compliance professionals. | 12yrs

Lawyers have been calling on the National Judicial Commission in Nigeria to deal with lawyers and other ambulance-chasers who take on relatively lucrative bail cases and then ditch their clients. | 12yrs

The UK's Criminal Bar Association is predicting that criminal courts will grind 'to a halt' today as 'thousands' of their members 'made legal history by voluntarily choosing not to attend court'. | 12yrs

Clifford Chance is one of three major law firms - along with Weil Gotshal & Manges and Nabarro - to be fighting substantial negligence claims this year. | 12yrs

The Myanmar Lawyer Network (MLN) is helping the Myanmar Journalist Network to raise issues about the controversial jailing of a journalist. | 12yrs

The year 2014 will see a stream of litigation from Aboriginee groups over new resource development legislation, according to lawyers for the Aboriginees. | 12yrs

Lawyers for Deutsche Bank are aiming to produce the terms of a settlement with shareholders by the end of January or early February. | 12yrs