Latest legal news

The famous international French firm has unveiled a new logo, updated its website and slimmed its name down to just one syllable. | 13yrs

A provider of cloud-based management tools for law firms, Clio, is expanding from the US to open a European office based in Dublin. | 13yrs

Clifford Chance has been involved in two parts of a Supreme Court conspiracy trial, representing defendants and giving evidence against them. | 13yrs

Foreign law firms are expected to be up and running in Malaysia following the announcements of new regulations and the passing of amendments to the Legal Profession (Amendment) Act 2012. | 13yrs

The level of mergers is running 41 per cent higher so far this year compared to the first nine months of 2012, with 58 law firm combinations being announced so far. | 13yrs

The Law Society of the Northern Provinces is seeking leave to appeal against a South African Supreme Court decision which can see them excluded from employment and other arbitration hearings. | 13yrs

Nearly half of law firms in Australia and New Zealand are unprepared for the competitive changes that are arriving, according to a new survey. | 13yrs

Vietnamese lawyer Le Quoc Quan has been jailed for 30 months after a one-day trial on charges of tax evasion. | 13yrs

US whistleblower law firm Grant & Eisenhofer PA has released an app for Apple and Android mobiles. | 13yrs

Nebraska is totally without lawyers in 12 of its states while others have 'only a handful'. | 13yrs

San Francisco-based, 900-lawyer employment law firm Littler Mendelson is entering into an arrangement, under the Littler Global flag, with two new firms in Latin America. | 13yrs

Over 360 lawyers have attended the 2013 congress of the International Association of Young Lawyers (IAYL) which has just been held in Buenos Aires. | 13yrs

Nearly all the fines levied by leading UK regulators in the last six months have been made in the financial services sector, according to an analysis by EY. | 13yrs

The annual Chinese Communist party conference in November is thought to be considering the introduction of an inheritance tax (IHT). | 13yrs

Freezing of assets in Spain is now much easier since the introduction of new legislation, say Mercedes Romero and Luis López from Spanish law firm Pérez-Llorca. | 13yrs

Baker & McKenzie has come first in this year's Global Elite Brand Index for lawyers but is being hard chased by other firms. | 13yrs

The start of a US$2 billion High Court battle in London between three Ukrainian tycoons is being seen as confirmation that the UK capital remains the litigation centre of preference for oligarchs. | 13yrs

A bust-up between Hogan Lovell TMT partner Christoph Wagner and the overall firm is said to be a major factor in the transfer of a 30-lawyer team to Berlin last month. | 13yrs

Dentons is in a new set of merger talks with US firm McKenna Long & Aldridge, which would make it the world's third biggest legal practice if the merger goes ahead. | 13yrs