Too many law firms and legal departments are reluctant to major root and branch changes. | 12yrs
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Regulators in the US are increasing their surveillance of private equity firms and other players in the alternative investment sector, according to specialist lawyers. | 12yrs
A well-known Toronto lawyer who launched an investors' lawsuit last year regarding Trump International Hotel & Tower has been found in contempt for failing to repay a Can£2.1 million debt to a client. | 12yrs
Telecoms lawyers are seeing a boom in work as the country prepares for the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. | 12yrs
Covington & Burling and Baker Botts are among the names missing from an EU voluntary register of lobbyists. | 12yrs
Apple says that it has never come across a higher rate than the US$1,100 an hour which Michael Bromwich is proposing to charge in his role as a judge-appointed monitor. | 12yrs
ENSafrica is on the expansion trail as it seeks coverage across the continent. | 12yrs
The Australian listed firm is upping the stakes in the UK. | 12yrs
Law firms jockeying for position to win the position of lead counsel in the Brent crude case in New York have poured cold water on attempts by Kirby McInerney to lead the claimants' case. | 12yrs
An Indian version of the Apple-Samsung patent wars appears to be breaking out through the intense competition between Ericsson and Micromax, culminating for the moment in the competition inquiry. | 12yrs
A former politician has attacked promised legal reforms for being slow and subject to the intervention of vested interests. | 12yrs
Law firm partners could face significant personal costs if their firm ceases to trade without a successor practice in place, according to a Baker Tilly report. | 12yrs
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been given powers to appoint and sack regional prosecutors. | 12yrs
A written constitution and its own Supreme Court would be two new legal features of an independent Scotland if the Scottish people vote for independence in 2014. | 12yrs
Lawyers found guilty of sexual discrimination will be barred from entering court premises for up to a year under a new committee. | 12yrs
The mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities looks set to cost US banks over one hundred billion dollars. | 12yrs
John Weber, who has been chief executive partner at Minter Ellison for nearly five year, is not seeking re-appointment when the term ends on 30 June. | 12yrs
The return of Jeffrey S Chiesa to Wolff & Samson means that the firm has had three partners who each at one stage held the position of Attorney General of New Jersey. | 12yrs
Keychoice, the UK network of insurance brokers, is offering legal services to brokers is a partnership agreement with Brilliant Law. | 12yrs
Matthew Layton, an M&A practitioner with particular emphasis on international and UK leveraged buyouts, has been chosen as Clifford Chance's next global managing partner. | 12yrs