Women are enjoying less opportunities in law firms than their male counterparts. | 13yrs
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A group of top law firms have been drafted in for the publishing world's mega merger. | 13yrs
Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co has recruited the head of competition from a top Irish firm. | 13yrs
UK Australian law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is to become the first big law firm to open in Guinea. | 13yrs
A survey by Pricewaterhouse Coopers points to overseas earnings as the main driver for growth for top UK law firms. | 13yrs
Formula One racing supremo Bernie Ecclestone has brushed off a $400 million damages demand from German bank BayernLB, which claims it could have received a better price when it sold the motor sport. | 13yrs
London-based firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is considering opening an office in Australia, as interest in the region grows to new heights. | 13yrs
Andrew Grech, the managing director of Melbourne-based law firm Slater & Gordon, has waved away allegations involving the firm and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a 'sideshow'. | 13yrs
Global firms are dominating the international market for legal services and creating global identities independent of their national characteristics, recent reports have suggested. | 13yrs
A Dutch anti-piracy group has won a case which will see the former host of a file-sharing web site held liable for damages. | 13yrs
A prospective juror in Florida ignored a judge's written warning to not research a death-penalty murder trial and may now face some time inside himself. | 13yrs
A new study from the US Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform accused plaintiff lawyers of extracting millions of dollars a year in fees at the expense of company shareholders by challenging mergers in state and federal courts. | 13yrs
The in-house lawyer of a mining company has been prevented from leaving Mongolia after being detained at the airport last week. | 13yrs
More women could bring compensation claims for equal pay following a ground-breaking ruling by the UK's Supreme Court. | 13yrs
The judge presiding over a bias discrimination case called a mistrial after a jury failed to reach a decision on Wednesday over whether the plaintiff's 14th Amendment rights were violated. | 13yrs
The Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) UK legal panel has been trimmed down by 40 per cent, with a new roster of between 55 and 60 firms after the first review of its legal team since 2009. | 13yrs
The Anjie law firm is launching next month in Beijing headed by 12 senior lawyers from eight of China's top law firms. | 13yrs
Companies that operate both in the United States and in European Union Member States, such as France, often grapple with tensions between FCPA compliance and enforcement of European Union and local country data privacy protections. | 13yrs
A Californian law firm allegedly accepted a $6 million 'secret settlement' in a labour-related class action against a bank, and then agreed to dismiss its claims without telling 600 clients. | 13yrs
Leaders of top US law firms have overwhelmingly backed incumbent President Barack Obama to secure another term at the White House, seeing off the challenge of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. | 13yrs