Latest legal news

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. | 13yrs

Addleshaw Goddard is predicting a 2020 legal market in which there are 20 per cent fewer law firms and 25 per cent fewer lawyers. | 13yrs

Partners in law firms are predicting a more important role for the Chinese language in the legal world of the future. | 13yrs

A London trader has changed his legal advisers ahead of a court hearing over alleged manipulation of yen Libor rates. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

The Home Office is considering a US-style plan through which individuals could receive large sums for blowing the whistle on economic crime. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

The legal industry is more diverse than society as whole, according to research from Lawrence Simons, international legal recruitment consultancy. | 13yrs

Corporate legal departments have bought into outsourcing as never before but law firms are lagging behind, according to a survey of general counsel. | 13yrs

Clifford Chance private equity partner Tom Evans is following the firm's former global head of private equity, David Walker, to join Latham & Watkins. | 13yrs

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. | 13yrs

UK members of parliament responded with bafflement when plans were unveiled this week to begin investigations into four law firms over hacking allegations. | 13yrs

Dunton Rainville, which employs 200 people in Montreal, has lost several lawyers after being hit with scandal earlier this year. | 13yrs

An anti-piracy set of classes is to be piloted in Californian schools, reaching children as young as five in their kindergartens. | 13yrs

BigData lapses are proving costly for financial services companies. | 13yrs

Jacksonville general counsel Cindy Laquidara may face another council vote on whether she should continue in her role. | 13yrs

Few women general counsel consciously plan to take on this role in their career but end up in a 'career spaghetti bowl' which leads them there. | 13yrs

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued four advice memoranda for general counsel handling policies on electronic communication and social media. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up on in-house moves from around the globe | 13yrs