Leading global lawyers have called on Egypt's new president to drop proposals to give his office unfettered powers and to respect international rule-of-law standards. | 13yrs
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An investigation is to be launched into allegations that ethnic minority lawyers in England are treated less fairly by the profession's regulator than white counterparts. | 13yrs
A round-up of recent global deals and the lawyers who made them happen | 13yrs
The Sri Lankan Bar Association has taken action against the speaker of the parliament and an 11-member select committee in opposition to an investigation into Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake involving allegations of abuse of power. | 13yrs
Australian consumer law actions over privacy breaches will be a bonanza for the country's legal profession, predicts a specialist lawyer who claims the jurisdiction will follow a similar litigation route to that of several US states. | 13yrs
Court proceedings in Jaipur were disrupted yesterday by a group of high court lawyers who prevented advocates from entering the premises in response to the alleged beating of two of their colleagues. | 13yrs
Leading London law firms are increasingly moving towards pure performance and merit-based pay packages for their associates as hard economic conditions continue to impact on the UK capital's legal profession. | 13yrs
Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has launched legal action against Samsung, claiming that some of the South Korean manufacturer's essential components infringe patents. | 13yrs
Federal government moves to dole out prison sentences at odds with watchdog's leniency programme, say lawyers | 13yrs
Last year's reform of US patent laws has failed to reduce the volume of legal action as intended, with a recent survey revealing that specialist law firms are as busy as ever. | 13yrs
Two former Penn State administrators have moved to bar testimony from the university's former general counsel at a preliminary hearing on charges stemming from the child sexual abuse scandal involving football coach Jerry Sandusky. | 13yrs
Legal team at Britain's railways kicks off panel pitching round, and new GCs for the Asia Development Bank, Middle East and Spanish media groups and a Colorado technology company | 13yrs
A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice | 13yrs
The head of the US's financial watchdog is to stand down next month, with speculation over her replacement already mounting. | 13yrs
Two thirds of all FTSE100 British High Court cases this year involved the financial services sector, with the 'big four' high street banks accounting for nearly half of all trials, according to research released yesterday. | 13yrs
London headquartered law firm Ashurst has taken second place outright from rival Linklaters in a ranking of legal practices by number of FTSE250 clients. | 13yrs
Law firm failures to combat potential risks in sending confidential information in unsecured e-mails has been described as 'madness' by leading digital communications experts. | 13yrs
Indian lawyers practising overseas increased pressure on professional regulators back home yesterday to loosen strict protectionist rules preventing foreign law firms from operating in the country. | 13yrs
A British-built, Confederate-flagged American Civil War battleship put Switzerland on the international arbitration map. Jonathan Ames talks to the lawyers who want to keep it there | 13yrs
Switzerland's banking sector has had a rough ride, with high-profile fraud, tenacious foreign taxmen and beefed up domestic regulation all bearing down. But headaches for bankers mean boom times for local lawyers | 13yrs