Premium brand law firms are losing their attraction for large legal departments which are increasingly likely to defect. | 12yrs
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One of the top legal names in US sport, Jim Tanner of Williams & Connolly, is leaving the Washington-based firm to set up his own firm to start his own specialist sport and entertainment management practice. | 12yrs
The largest bank in the US, JP Morgan Chase, has set aside US$23 billion in its legal reserve and shown a quarterly loss for the first time in nine years. | 12yrs
One of the world's most controversial trials is due to start on Tuesday when Steve Donziger, who won a US$19 billion compensation victory for inhabitants of the Amazon, will be accused of fraud. | 12yrs
A meeting of the Lahore Bar Association to discuss security in the lower courts ended without a decision and after a scuffle broke out between two groups of lawyers. | 12yrs
Addleshaw Goddard is predicting a 2020 legal market in which there are 20 per cent fewer law firms and 25 per cent fewer lawyers. | 12yrs
Partners in law firms are predicting a more important role for the Chinese language in the legal world of the future. | 12yrs
A London trader has changed his legal advisers ahead of a court hearing over alleged manipulation of yen Libor rates. | 12yrs
The vice president of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Frank Stock, has attacked lawyers for making 'wholly unwarranted allegations of incompetence' against each other. | 12yrs
The Home Office is considering a US-style plan through which individuals could receive large sums for blowing the whistle on economic crime. | 12yrs
The Italian arm of Clifford Chance now has a competition lawyer represented among the partners, in the form of Luciano Di Via, who has just moved over from Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. | 12yrs
The legal industry is more diverse than society as whole, according to research from Lawrence Simons, international legal recruitment consultancy. | 12yrs
Corporate legal departments have bought into outsourcing as never before but law firms are lagging behind, according to a survey of general counsel. | 12yrs
Clifford Chance private equity partner Tom Evans is following the firm's former global head of private equity, David Walker, to join Latham & Watkins. | 12yrs
Overseas Shipholding Group, one of the world's largest shippers, is planning to sue its 'former external counsel' over advice that forced it restate a decade of financial results. | 12yrs
UK members of parliament responded with bafflement when plans were unveiled this week to begin investigations into four law firms over hacking allegations. | 12yrs
Dunton Rainville, which employs 200 people in Montreal, has lost several lawyers after being hit with scandal earlier this year. | 12yrs
An anti-piracy set of classes is to be piloted in Californian schools, reaching children as young as five in their kindergartens. | 12yrs
BigData lapses are proving costly for financial services companies. | 12yrs
Jacksonville general counsel Cindy Laquidara may face another council vote on whether she should continue in her role. | 12yrs