Latest legal news

A $5 billion civil fraud suit against Standard & Poor's looks likely to proceed despite attempts by the company to get the proceedings stopped. | 13yrs

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

Davis, Polk & Wardwell is top of the global tables for M&A activity so far this year. | 13yrs

Apple immediately announced its decision to appeal after a New York federal judge ruled that the IT giant had played a crucial role in a conspiracy to raise the retail price of e-books. | 13yrs

Law firms may have to answer questions over phone hacking and high profile offenders could find themselves in the dock. | 13yrs

Part-time judges are attempting to reap their public-sector pension benefits following court rulings. | 13yrs

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has taken eight transactional lawyers from French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel in a boost its Moscow office. | 13yrs

New York firm Schiff Hardin is continuing on its acquisition trail with the takeover of New York firm Mazur Carp & Rubin. | 13yrs

Mobile devices may do more harm than good in terms of security, according to the 2013 In-house Tech Survey by Corporate Counsel. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs

London's leading business newspaper The Financial Times is losing its general counsel to city law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner 's recruitment arm Lawyers On Demand. | 13yrs

Corporate clients are using three tactics to slash external legal services, reporting average savings of 54 per cent as a result. | 13yrs

The Press Council of Burma has threatened to resign if the new Printing and Publishing Enterprise Bill is enacted in its current form. | 13yrs

Japanese law firms are calling on the government to help persuade other countries to drop their restrictions on foreign lawyers. | 13yrs

Rising compliance costs are among the main factors why some of the world's banks are leaving Switzerland. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice. | 13yrs

The level of law firm mergers is currently on course for a new record, after a total of 39 mergers in the first half of the year. | 13yrs

Controversial new anti tax avoidance measures look set to get off to a chaotic start next week - as the US Internal Revenue Service requires many foreign businesses to register with it but has not explained what they need to do. | 13yrs

Lawyers around the world are reacting with shock to an inter-governmental report which suggests some complicity with money laundering in parts of the legal sector. | 13yrs