A law graduate was prohibited from practising by the California state bar this week after revelations that she lied about having a disability to get extended time to take the qualifying exam. | 13yrs
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Global law firms Latham & Watkins, White & Case and Baker & McKenzie all scooped prizes for ground-breaking pro bono work in 2012 at the second annual TrustLaw awards earlier this week. | 13yrs
The legal services market will soon be dominated by a handful of big law firms with international reach as traditional heavyweights lose their grip on the market, researchers claimed earlier this week. | 13yrs
A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen | 13yrs
How many Scrabble points would a player bag for the phrase 'thrown out of court'? | 13yrs
The US Justice Department has recovered a record $4.9 billion from false claims filed against the government by companies in the last year. | 13yrs
Canadian government moves to implement investor-protection agreements with two of the world's three largest economies will trigger a boom in global arbitration against Ottawa, analysts predict. | 13yrs
Thousands of lawyers in the Indian state of Orissa have gone on strike following an alleged assault on a senior colleague. | 13yrs
A leading anti-death penalty lawyer from Belarus has picked up a major European human rights award for his campaigning work, it was announced today. | 13yrs
A raft of regulatory red tape is hindering the flow of credit in the global financial system rather than boosting it, a group of leading lawyers claimed today. | 13yrs
US in-house lawyers are worryingly ill-informed about Canada's 'net-benefit' test, which must met before any foreign acquisition of a local company can proceed, a survey revealed earlier this week. | 13yrs
Social media giant Facebook is planning a legal department hiring spree next year that will see its in-house roster leap from 65 lawyers and staff to 90. | 13yrs
The US's Consumer Product Safety Commission promotes a lawyer to its top slot, while there are moves at a leading data storage business as well as an international hotel chain and a leading purveyor of pumps | 13yrs
Three Nordic countries lead the world in the perception of public sector propriety, anti-corruption campaigners said today as they released a league table of international offenders. | 13yrs
Human rights campaigners yesterday called on the Georgian government to prioritise justice reforms and to bolster the autonomy of the legal profession in a report expressing severe concerns over the independence of the judiciary in the country. | 13yrs
A former associate at Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office is suing the international law firm for gender discrimination after a federal watchdog ruled the firm paid female lawyers less than their male counterparts. | 13yrs
An independent review is to shine a spotlight on the role of cycling's global governing body next April, following months of unease after the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. | 13yrs
Pittsburgh law firm K&L Gates and Australia's Middletons are set to merge in January, creating a firm with more than 2,000 lawyers across 46 offices. | 13yrs
Baker & McKenzie has topped the list of the most powerful law firm brands in the world for the fifth year in a row. | 13yrs
London-headquartered global law firm Linklaters today announced it has finally cut an alliance deal with South African law firm Webber Wentzel after several months of negotiations. | 13yrs