Trinidad & Tobago's former attorney general has waded into the debate over the independence of the legal profession in the jurisdiction by calling for a Commission of Enquiry to investigate what he described as a 'dog-eat-dog fight'. | 13yrs
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Concerns over training reforms in Canada have reached new heights, with one member of a Law Society task force admitting 'it's time to move on with a different process'. | 13yrs
The size of the legal profession in the Australian state of Queensland has shrunk, just weeks after the state backed out of national legal reforms. | 13yrs
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Plans to require major European businesses to have boardrooms of at least 40 per cent women have been postponed. | 13yrs
British building society Nationwide will be launching a review of its legal panel in early 2013, the first since the panel's launch in July 2009. | 13yrs
Several leading US law schools are taking measures to give experience-based learning for future in-house counsel. | 13yrs
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Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has been labelled a 'hypocritical fraud' after taking legal action against a web site that published a sex-tape of the 'Hulkster' and the wife of his ex-friend Bubba 'The Love Sponge' Clem. | 13yrs
Britain's Chancellor is keen for employees to swap rights for shares in the businesses where they work. Simon Kerr-Davis explains why both workers and employers are cool on the idea | 13yrs
Two law students lost their heads at a Las Vegas casino and allegedly decapitated a 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl. | 13yrs
Recently made up law firm partners suffer from increasing anxiety over their ability to develop business and win clients, according to a recent survey. | 13yrs
Companies are running an ever-keener eye over long legal bills as corporate clients are less willing to bankroll overhead costs and extras such as car services, meals and photocopies, a report on US business attitudes indicates. | 13yrs
Pittsburgh-headquartered global law firm Reed Smith has launched a partnership with King's College London to give law students work placements at the firm's London and Paris offices. | 13yrs
Reform of England's legal profession at times might seem like an inexorable steamroller, but senior figures in the London market continue to remain resistant to core elements of the new world. | 13yrs
London-founded international law firm Norton Rose has boosted its African presence with the opening of a Tanzania outpost in the country's largest city Dar es Salaam. | 13yrs
Law student and aspiring gun maker Cody Wilson has had his printable 'Wiki Weapons' scheme blocked after the maker of a 3D printer he leased seized the machine. | 13yrs
London-based CMS has opened in Barcelona, adding to its already established Spanish presence in Madrid and Seville and taking the total number of the franchised law firm's offices to 53. | 13yrs
Canadian law firm Fasken Martineau is to merge with Johannesburg-based outfit Bell Dewar in the latest move by a global legal practice in South Africa. | 13yrs
A former Supreme Court judge has blasted the Nigerian judicial system for being 'weak' and has offered little hope that it will improve. | 13yrs