Latest legal news

Six Australian lawyers have created a website with the intention of bringing female in-house lawyers closer together. | 13yrs

Global infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has decided to split its external legal spend, with London law firm Pinsent Masons bagging its sought after 'business as usual' legal work. | 13yrs

A surge in litigation stemming from the financial crisis could overwhelm UK courts during the next year as claimants file law suits before their six-year statute of limitations runs out, lawyers have warned. | 13yrs

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has beefed up its European presence with the announcement of two office openings in Germany today. | 13yrs

Lawyers in China have reacted furiously after a local Communist Party official branded them 'cowards' for asking citizens to petition his superiors. | 13yrs

Thousands of unhappy couples have been rushing to begin divorce proceedings before UK legal funding is slashed next week, law firms have claimed. | 13yrs

India's generic drug industry - reported to be worth £17 billion - has been protected by the country's supreme court in a landmark judgment to reject a patent application by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG. | 13yrs

Lawyers representing Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission have defended the election of Uhuru Kenyatta, maintaining that the IEBC conducted a free, fair and democratic election. | 13yrs

Law firms are not doing enough to address lawyers' concerns about their work-life balance, according to an Australian legal survey. | 13yrs

Lanny Breuer, one of the longest-serving Criminal Division chiefs in history, is set to return to Washington DC-based Covington & Burling as vice chair of the firm, it was announced yesterday. | 13yrs

Lawyers from San Diego law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd may be reprimanded after a confidential witness denied making statements attributed to him in a class action against US aerospace giant Boeing. | 13yrs

A self-styled lawyer who assumed the nickname 'Devil's advocate' for defending 'unwinnable' cases despite having no legal qualifications is facing jail time after being found guilty of 25 offences of deception, fraud, money laundering and forgery. | 13yrs

A leading sports lawyer has claimed that a plan by football's European administrative body to introduce Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations would not stand up to a legal challenge. | 13yrs

Leading global law firms are ramping up the relocation of senior partners and group heads to the Asia Pacific region in order to capitalise on the growing need for legal services in the area, a survey today revealed. | 13yrs

A multibillion-dollar lawsuit over the ownership of social media platform Facebook should be dismissed as the contract on which the case is based on was faked, a New York judge yesterday said. | 13yrs

Moves by Europe to create a right to be forgotten threatens freedom of the press. Sébastien Proust discusses the implications of strengthening privacy laws. | 13yrs

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

Criminal lawyers in Australia's Northern Territory have reacted angrily to new laws which could see sex offenders jailed indefinitely. | 13yrs

The US Supreme Court will today hear a case aimed at overturning a law which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples, a day after the court scrutinised a state gay marriage ban. | 13yrs