Latest legal news

Most law firms are 'several years' behind the Big Four accountancy practices in their adoption of new technology. | 13yrs

A barrister from Illinois has had her licence to practice suspended for three years after admitting that she had not disclosed her past work as a prostitute. | 13yrs

A former lawyer is offering a radical leadership programme which promises transformation in management. | 13yrs

JP Morgan's legal provisions of US$6.8 billion in its accounts has knocked Bank of America off the top slot of US banks with expensive legal problems. | 13yrs

Leading Chinese law firm Dacheng has opened an office in Moscow, aiming to build up to a staffing level of 20 lawyers. | 13yrs

The long-awaited trial of Chinese politician Bo Xilai - whose wife was last year convicted of the murder of the Briton Neil Heywood - starts on Thursday, according to state media. | 13yrs

A federal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Seamus P McCaffery has extended to the investigators serving subpoenas on eight law firms. | 13yrs

Colourful French lawyer Jacques Verges, known as “the Devil's advocate” has died in Paris. | 13yrs

A New York court has dismissed a case against Chinese firm DeHeng Law offices and one of its former partners for the third time. | 13yrs

The going rate for Supreme Court clerks has soared with law firms fiercely competing for this rare breed of lawyer. | 13yrs

Lack of funding has seen legal proceedings stall in the investigation into the Marikana Massacre in South Africa a year after the disaster. | 13yrs

A recent Supreme Court patent decision avoided the absurd result of a defendant having to pay damages under a patent whose relevant claims were invalidated between trial on liability and on damages, says Susan Hall of UK law firm Clarke Willmott. | 13yrs

BP is back in court yet again over the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010 - this time trying to prevent investors in its shares from pursuing a class action lawsuit. | 13yrs

Competition experts in the US are expecting a gritty fight back from US Airways and its legal adviser O'Melveny & Myers after the Department of Justice said it will seek to block merger plans with American Airlines. | 13yrs

There is a thin line between business and personal communication when it comes to social media. Eugenie Nunes and Annemarie Roukema of Dutch law firm Boekel De Nerée discuss the implications for employers. | 13yrs

Gmail users should not expect privacy, the company has argued in a class action lawsuit. | 13yrs

Law students from the Florida Coastal School of Law have the worst return for their money whilst those at the University of Texas at Austin top the table for investment return, according to new research. | 13yrs

The increasing availability of cheap 3-D printers through is about to usher in a new era of litigation, according to specialist lawyers. | 13yrs

A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen. | 13yrs