Fifteen Chinese lawyers have begun a hunger strike in protest at not being able to meet with a Christian pastor who has been arrested and detained on charges of 'obstructing official business'. | 12yrs
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Law firms could be disadvantaged by provisions which take effect in April to clamp down on payments made to partners which could be seen as the 'disguised salary' of employees. | 12yrs
Three Chinese law firms are on course to square up to each other in a Beijing court after one is accused of besmirching the reputation of the others. | 12yrs
Six months after it announced its intention to go to Australia, Chicago-based law firm has opened up in Sydney and Melbourne. | 12yrs
The Criminal Law Association and Ontario Legal Aid have combined forces to call for Legal Aid changes from both the federal and local governments. | 12yrs
Vinge's Carl Johan Af Petersens reviews the latest SMP decisions from the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. | 12yrs
The UK firms of London-based Lawrence Graham and Wragge from Birmingham are to merge to create a 770-lawyer practice just outside the top 20. | 12yrs
The Indian state of West Bengal is braced to see a fall in tax revenue this year after Tata Steel, Cadbury and other multinationals challenged one of its tax laws. | 12yrs
Clifford Chance is predicting that a gradual increase in M&A activity this year will give momentum to early 2014 and beyond. | 12yrs
The partner remuneration system at Herbert Smith Freehills in Australia is to include an extra component in order to encourage top players to stay on at the law firm. | 12yrs
Boies, Schiller & Flexer looks likely to win the 2013 bonus league through bonus payments which will average US85,000 and hit $300,000 for some associates. | 12yrs
Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy are among the law firms in Singapore which have been asked to reapply for licences to operate there. | 12yrs
Hogan Lovells is shifting back to a system of having one chief executive, for the first time since its transatlantic merger in 2010. | 12yrs
African Americans and Hispanics account for only 8.4% of lawyers in the US - even though they make up 25% of the population. | 12yrs
Having suspended the Attorney General, Peter Nyombi, for two years on the grounds of incompetence, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) has now agreed to start talks aimed at a reconciliation. | 12yrs
The former mayor of St Louis, Freeman Bosley, has admitted to a state panel that he did not handle client funds properly in his law firm, Bosley & Associates. | 12yrs
Lawyers are well-represented in the new annual listing will be revealed in full on Friday, taking four of the 40 places. | 12yrs
Mike Suchsland, president of Thomson Reuters Legal, is one of three senior executives leaving the global media company on 31 December. | 12yrs
Securities and Exchange Commission Republican member Daniel Gallagher said last week that filed documents are often poor at providing information to investors. | 12yrs
Experiments to allow paralegals to work under qualified lawyers are set to push down prices for legal work in parts of Canada. | 12yrs