Latest legal news

Lawyers are among the Heinz personnel in the UK and Ireland who are looking for new posts after 248 job losses were announced. | 12yrs

Advani & Co, lawyers to BP and Colgate-Palmolive in India, is taking part in its second merger in two years - to take the size of the practice to 60 lawyers. | 12yrs

Over the last year and a half, most large US law firms have hired a director of pricing, according to an analysis company. | 12yrs

Lawyers at the Department of Justice have raised concerns about a lawyer's relationship with her client in a criminal case. | 12yrs

The US energy sector is gearing up to go to court over regulations on carbon dioxide emissions which are being proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. | 12yrs

Online gambling has taken its first tentative steps in the US having been banned seven years ago. | 12yrs

Offshore trusts are the most favoured vehicle among high net worth individuals for holding investments, according to their legal advisers. | 12yrs

Australia will see 'a lot more consolidation' especially in the middle tier, according to a leading consultant. | 12yrs

A decision will be taken shortly on whether the lawyer who represented two of the four men found guilty of raping a woman on a Delhi bus is to face a disciplinary hearing. | 12yrs

The release of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is being taken as a sign of a less hardline stance by political leaders in Iran. | 12yrs

The email accounts of lawyers representing five men accused of plotting September 11th were monitored, according to the chief defence lawyer. | 12yrs

Two more UK law firms have revealed plans to develop non-legal services - in accident management and insurance and finance. | 12yrs

David Kirk, Chief Criminal Counsel at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will become a partner with the MCGuireWoods joining its Government, Regulatory and Criminal Investigations (GRCI) practice at the beginning of 2014. | 12yrs

The first periodical payment order linked to foreign economy has been approved in London's High Court. Kennedys partners Mark Burton and Christopher Malla discuss the case. | 12yrs

Property businessman Joseph Lau Luen Hung has replaced his lawyers while his defence was being presented in a bribery hearing in Macau. | 12yrs

Underperforming partners and ambitious senior associates could be the losers as leading law firms in Australia opt for smaller partnership numbers. | 12yrs

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is fighting a move which threatens the legal privilege of in-house lawyers who give advice to colleagues. | 12yrs

Australian firm Slater & Gordon is to follow the Co-op in spending over £1 million on advertising to reach consumers in the UK. | 12yrs

A Moscow court will next month start hearing the case of a Pussy Riot member who claims her lawyer, Violetta Volkova, made unkind remarks about her on social media. | 12yrs