Latest legal news

A leading human rights organisation has told the government of Cameroon to immediately take action against death threats made to lawyers who are defending clients accused of homosexual conduct. | 13yrs

Internet giant Google has launched the first high-profile test of Russia's contentious firewall, taking legal action against the web blocker which has been lambasted for allowing the government to ban any web site it chooses. | 13yrs

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

A High Court judge in the Solomon Islands has warned lawyers in the jurisdiction that there will be consequences if they fail to turn up to court. | 13yrs

A damning investigation which claimed to find widespread doping in Australian sport as well as links to organised crime will lead to serious professional liability issues for sports organisations, a leading lawyer in the jurisdiction said yesterday. | 13yrs

London law firm Linklaters became the latest magic circle firm to reveal its March retention rates yesterday, announcing a rate of 83 per cent. | 13yrs

The fear of alienating prized clients since the recession is hindering US law firms in their attempts to implement much-needed succession plans, a leading legal consultant claimed yesterday. | 13yrs

The chief executive of Californian technology giant Apple yesterday shrugged off claims that the company does not know what to with its $137 billion cash pile, adding that a lawsuit filed by a shareholder is nothing more than a 'silly slideshow'. | 13yrs

Halebury scores the England football team while a US GC gets a promotion and another joins a gaming company. | 13yrs

Legal departments expect technology to play a much greater role in e-disclosure while many also forecast the costs involved to increase, a recent survey has revealed. | 13yrs

Leading in-house lawyers at Barclays are jockeying for position as the bank looks to appoint a new general counsel, with reports suggesting Michael Shaw and Judith Shepherd are the current frontrunners. | 13yrs

The American Bar Association's ethics commission is to tackle issues surrounding the registration of foreign in-house counsel, possibly amending the current model, the co-chair of the commission has said. | 13yrs

UK law firms are tasting success in their efforts to improve diversity and inclusion performance but there is still more work to be done, a report released today has concluded. | 13yrs

The Cambodian government and bar association should scale down their efforts to stop lawyers from speaking to the media without permission, a leading human rights organisation said yesterday. | 13yrs

New York-based law firm White & Case has blown away bleak reports of meagre profit increases to post a whopping 15 per cent increase in profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2012 financial year. | 13yrs

Britain's chief accountancy enforcer is set to investigate claims that Cambridge-founded software company Autonomy misrepresented its profitability before its £7 billion takeover by Hewlett-Packard in 2011. | 13yrs

Social networking platform Facebook is facing legal action over its 'like' button following a claim from a Dutch patent-holding company yesterday. | 13yrs

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

Queensland law firm McCullough Robertson has recruited a top Irish lawyer to chair its international group as it vows to defy Australian merger mania and build a holistic global practice. | 13yrs