Latest legal news

A 51-year-old Los Angeles lawyer has moved back in with his parents to offer his own home to a homeless woman and her children. | 13yrs

Britain's in-house lawyers have seen their pay increases running below inflation over the last year, effectively lowering wages, research released yesterday revealed. | 13yrs

Californian technology giant Google has been forced to change the way it presents results, but cleared of allegations over bias in its search function, following a two-year investigation by a US watchdog. | 13yrs

Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean will pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the US Department of Justice announced yesterday. | 13yrs

Jousting between Sri Lankan politicians and judges cranked up a notch yesterday when the country's supreme court ruled that parliament does not have legal authority to investigate misconduct accusations levelled at senior judicial figures. | 13yrs

Wegelin & Company -- Switzerland's oldest private bank -- is to shut its doors after executives put up their hands to charges of assisting Americans avoid US tax. | 13yrs

A Barbie loving blonde branded an 'airhead' by bullies has hit back by earning a law degree to go with her masters in fashion marketing. | 13yrs

The turning of the year is an ideal time for individuals -- and professions as a whole -- to ruminate on their future. Richard Susskind calls for some hard thinking after his latest session with a crystal ball | 13yrs

Discrimination claims arising from inappropriate banter between colleagues could cost UK businesses close to £300 billion, magic circle law firm Allen & Overy has warned. | 13yrs

One of China's biggest and most visited illegal content search engines has been shut down, just weeks after being added to a US blacklist of major copyright offenders. | 13yrs

London law firm SJ Berwin has opened in Luxembourg, expanding to a jurisdiction it says is increasingly important to its clients. | 13yrs

Britain's financial watchdog dished out a record-breaking £312 million in fines last year, fulfilling a promise to hit hard on big name companies for several high-profile scandals and compliance failings. | 13yrs

In the realm of understatement, the suggestion that 2012 was a troublesome year for former US law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf is king. | 13yrs

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

Power giant Duke Energy's bid to pass on repair costs to customers has been rejected by a state appeal court in a case that has embroiled the business's former general counsel in more than two years of controversy. | 13yrs

An eastern seaboard US property business has split with its general counsel amid concerns over financial reporting and compliance regimes, the company announced within the last few days. | 13yrs

Canadian companies must get to grips quickly with the country's adoption of US-style anti-corruption legislation, according to a leading in-house lawyer at the world's largest gold mining business. | 13yrs

A gaming business and a native American resort are among those recently reshuffling the top levels of their in-house legal teams | 13yrs

A game featuring cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants has been removed from Apple's app store amid complaints that it violated children's privacy rights. | 13yrs