Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has secured a High Court ruling in New Zealand ordering police to return material seized in a raid last year that has been deemed irrelevant to his piracy case. | 13yrs
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Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is being courted by two US institutions with clashing ideologies just a year after his dramatic escape from house arrest in China. | 13yrs
Members of the Nigerian legal profession have expressed their support for new efficiency rules proposed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mukhtar. | 13yrs
Nadège Nguyen, a partner at French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, has been elected as chair of leading independent law firm association Lex Mundi by the organisation's Board of Directors. | 13yrs
International law firms Norton Rose and Fulbright & Jaworski have today completed their transatlantic union, creating new global top 10 legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright. | 13yrs
The Chinese State Counsel is considering amending the Patent, Trademark and Copyright laws in order to introduce punitive damages against deliberate and repeated acts of infringements. | 13yrs
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today announced that Minister Law Solicitors has been granted an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) licence. | 13yrs
Personal injury lawyers in Scotland have claimed that courts will not be able to cope with the deluge of cases expected to hit if government proposals are given the green light. | 13yrs
Stuart Fuller, the global head of Hong Kong-headquartered law firm King & Wood Mallesons, has rebuffed claims that a breakdown in personal relationships led to the departure of Australia managing partner Tony O'Malley. | 13yrs
Close to two-thirds of American parents hope that their children will pursue legal careers, a survey yesterday reported. | 13yrs
A Rio de Janeiro judge yesterday overturned an earlier ruling that sought to suspend a friendly football match between England and Brazil at the Maracana stadium due to the stadium being 'unsafe'. | 13yrs
A Glasgow lawyer has been jailed for three-and-a-half-years after being caught with 31kg of cannabis resin at his flat. | 13yrs
Reciprocal guidance on the enforcement of money judgments between the UAE and the UK is now in place, reports barrister Khadija S Ali. | 13yrs
President Barack Obama is reportedly set to turn to former deputy attorney general James Comey - a 2003 appointment by President George W Bush - to head the FBI. | 13yrs
Members of the legal profession have moved to highlight the dangers of privatising the court system following reports that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) may be planning to sell to the private sector. | 13yrs
Michigan-headquartered automotive giant Ford has forced a British village parts centre to hand over its website domain following a trans-Atlantic internet tussle. | 13yrs
Law firms are beginning to recognise the need to innovate in response to the Legal Services Act, with a quarter of law firms expecting to modify their business strategy, a report released today suggests. | 13yrs
Hundreds of lawyers have gathered in Karachi to stage a protest following the 'targeted killing' of senior lawyer Kausar Saqlain on Tuesday. | 13yrs
A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen | 13yrs
European competition regulators are 'almost 100 per cent' likely to ask Google to revise its proposals in an on-going antitrust tug-of-war. | 13yrs