Latest legal news

Rhode Island lawyer Joseph Caramadre has been sentenced to six years in jail for a US$46m investment fraud in which he gave cash to dying people and then bought annuities which paid out when the victims died. | 12yrs

Angry criminal lawyers who depend on legal aid have passed a vote of no confidence in the president and chief executive of the Law Society of England and Wales. | 12yrs

Some lawyers have been experimenting with pricing solutions over the last year in Canada, as reported in Canadian Lawyer. | 12yrs

International veteran Paul Smith will take over as the Eversheds chair for a four year term on 1 May. | 12yrs

As the industry prepares itself for consolidation in a crowded telecom market, service providers are fending off massive fines for violating cross-holding norms under Indian regulations. | 12yrs

A Romanian company has been vindicated after the country joined the EU and terminated an investment programme benefiting the company. | 12yrs

The Law Society Act got its third reading last week, bringing changes at the Law Society of Upper Canada closer to implementation. | 12yrs

Jones Day has begun to trial the use of damages-based fee deals with litigation clients in its London office. | 12yrs

The Yingke Law Firm has opened a second office in the US, opening its Chicago office about 20 months after it opened up in New York. | 12yrs

BP's legal team has been accused of making 'material omissions' which were 'tantamount to…misleading the court' in the latest set of filings in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil leak litigation. | 12yrs

From January King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin will be represented in Riyadh by the law office of Majed Almarshad. | 12yrs

Recent research reveals that lawyers believe the legal profession has to fundamentally change to survive. | 12yrs

A state exam body has provoked surprise at appointing Seol-based Lee & Co, advisers to Samsung, to support it over complaints that exam candidates may have been denied university entry over an alleged error. | 12yrs

Business Insider has published an anonymous interview with a 28-year old US lawyer who says he feels 'like I was duped and tricked' to go to law school and regards it as 'a waste of my life'. | 12yrs

Alabama-based Chestnut, Sanders and Sanders - once one of the top 10 black law firms in the US - has now only partner left after a fight over money following a US$1.2 b win. | 12yrs

A survey of 14 territories by law firm Withers has confirmed that the largest divorce settlements handed out tend to be the most generous in England. | 12yrs

E T Rajavel and his wife Mohana have been arrested by police in Kerala and accused of using contract killers to murder a female client who had consulted Mr Rajavel on property issues in 2011. | 12yrs

The world's tenth largest law firm, CMS Cameron McKenna, has extended its reach in Scotland by acquiring Edinburgh- and Glasgow-based Dundas & Wilson. | 12yrs

Wevorce - the west coast 'mediation-enabling technology company' - is planning to expand from its 10 US offices to the UK. | 12yrs