Overnight telephone receptionists have seen their work surge in the last year as clients make more calls during off duty hours. | 12yrs
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Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson is to pay over US$2.2bn as a settlement with federal and state authorities for kickbacks and other misdemeanours over the last ten years. | 12yrs
The top real estate lawyer in the SJ Berwin London side of the King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin merger, David Ryland, has gone to join Paul Hastings only four days after the global merger took place. | 12yrs
The attempts of a microbiologist to poison her husband's lover are to set leading case law on the ability of the US president to make agreements with foreign powers. | 12yrs
The former Chicago head of now defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist could face up to 58 years in prison over a US $7 billion deceit. | 12yrs
Jackson Kelly PLLC, a leading law firm representing mining companies, has been accused of having 'withheld potentially relevant evidence' in 11 cases relating to medical claims by miners. | 12yrs
Nearly 200 members of the Port-au-Prince Bar Association are on strike following the arrest of human rights lawyer Andre Michel - although Mr Michel was subsequently released. | 12yrs
Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania has come under attack for spending of US$6.4 in legal fees since 2012, including payments to DLA Piper and Blank Rome. | 12yrs
Ropes & Gray is putting more emphasis on the Asian side of its M&A practice as James Lidbury moves his office, including some associates, from Chicago to Hong Kong. | 12yrs
Proposals by the Ministry of Justice to change the 'loser pays' method of resolving legal costs in libel cases could result in a surge of cases, according to research from a specialist law firm, Wiggin. | 12yrs
The appointment of liquidators to legal and other professional firms has increased 15 per cent in the UK, comparing Q3 2013 with the same period in 2012. | 12yrs
Barrick Gold, already hit by a slump in its share price and a shareholder revolt, is suspending work on a flagship mine in Chile after a raft of legal problems. | 12yrs
The new Kings & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin law firm is launched today as 'the first global law firm headquartered in Asia'. | 12yrs
A 90 year ban on cameras in court in the UK has been lifted. | 12yrs
A leading Chinese firm has opened an outpost in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. | 12yrs
Australian law firm Gadens Lawyers has been ordered to pay A$4.97 m in damages, with legal costs and interest, to a well-known client. | 12yrs
Russian judges have just been given a five per cent pay rise as President Vladimir Putin seeks to solve problems of judicial dissatisfaction which result in as many as 90 per cent of court personnel leaving their posts each year. | 12yrs
Barclays Bank has admitted that it has 'received enquiries from certain…authorities related to their particular investigations' on foreign exchange trading. | 12yrs
The EU is making a last ditch effort to get Ireland to introduce reforms to its legal profession. | 12yrs
Americans are turning away from the death penalty with 60 per cent supporting it now, compared to 80 per cent in 1994. | 12yrs