Lawyers are increasingly trawling through reality TV shows for evidence - as actor Ryan O'Neal has recently discovered in a Los Angeles court case. | 12yrs
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Lawyer Dawn Satterswaite has been arrested, charged and given bail as a result of money laundering allegations which link her to convicted drug supremo Andrew Hamilton. | 12yrs
Personal injury law firm Searcy Denney is challenging state rules which, the firm says, make it impossible to blog or participate in LinkedIn. | 12yrs
Sonya Leydecker, head of global disputes, will become joint chief executive officer on 1 May 2014, alongside Mark Rigotti on the Freehills side of the firm. | 12yrs
The next year will be marked by an increased division between large and small firms, according to law firm Mills & Reeve. | 12yrs
Litigation is the area that US firms are the most positive about - with 27% of law firms expecting to hire, according to a survey from recruitment consultants Robert Half Legal. | 12yrs
Travers Thorp Alberga and Paget-Brown, two Cayman Islands law firms, have decided to join forces. | 12yrs
US law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is to open its doors in Africa in 2014, as part of a strategy to serve Chinese organisations which are investing in the continent. | 12yrs
Leader of the lawyers league for the last two years, Linklaters is in 13th place for 2013 in the Thomson Reuters tables. | 12yrs
Dealing with audio evidence is a challenge but technology can help. | 12yrs
The US Treasury Department has warned businesses dealing in the virtual currency Bitcoin that they need to respect their federal and regulatory duties as money transmitters. | 12yrs
The 2012/13 annual report of the Legal Complaints Commission says that poor communication by lawyers is a primary cause of a 'staggering' 57% of cases. | 12yrs
A PI and workers compensation firm is to be allowed to continue with advertisements on the side of buses even though its commercial agreement with the bus company bars competitors from advertising. | 12yrs
Therese Pritchard is to become the third litigator in a week to be chosen as the next leader of a leading law firm. | 12yrs
Samiullah Afridi, the lead lawyer for the doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden, has fled Pakistan after receiving threats from militants. | 12yrs
More in-house legal teams are setting up software for drawing up contracts which enables them to maintain and service the contract more easily throughout its use, rather than leaving it up to non-lawyer colleagues to manage. | 12yrs
Louis L Ainsworth, who graduated 36 years ago from the William Mitchell College of Law, is endowing the Louis L Ainsworth Distinguished Professorship at the school, to be awarded to leading law and business tutors. | 12yrs
Mike Watts, lawyer and fundraiser for President Barak Obama, has been accused of 'brazen fraud' by BP in filings related to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. | 12yrs
Whilst Mexico has taken steps to secure the future of the 2.5 GHz, some issues have yet to be resolved, says Federico Hernandez Arroyo. | 12yrs
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