Sri Lankan lawyers today pledged support to the country's chief justice after she walked out of impeachment hearings, further damaging relations between the south Asian country's legislature and judiciary. | 13yrs
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Global human rights lawyers are pressing leaders in the United Arab Emirates to make a public statement on the location of detained civil liberties campaigners. | 13yrs
A former Barclays Bank employee has been fined after unlawfully accessing statements belonging to her partner's ex-wife, triggering questions over personal information storage, access and abuse. | 13yrs
America's financial services watchdog is probing allegations that one of Germany's leading banks covered up massive securities portfolio losses after the global markets nosedived four years ago, media reports suggest this week. | 13yrs
A female partner at a top New Zealand law firm is boycotting the annual Law Society Christmas party after it emerged the celebrations would be held at a club that does not allow women as members. | 13yrs
The independent Italian business law firm born out of the wreckage of global practice Dewey & LeBoeuf suffered a mass exodus this week after its managing partner defected with a team of 35 lawyers to launch their own practice. | 13yrs
In the rough and tumble world that is North American ice hockey, the players are accustomed to taking routine hammerings. | 13yrs
Australia's top mergers and acquisitions lawyers are looking to put a poor 12 months behind them by eyeing up deals in the pipeline for next year. | 13yrs
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
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