A 'small but significant' number of English solicitors is failing the public and the profession through dishonesty, incompetence and misunderstanding of regulations, according to the jurisdiction's regulatory chief. | 13yrs
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British Telecommunications has bought the world's largest independent supplier of legal and accountancy sector technology in a £64.2 million deal. | 13yrs
Deloitte is to become the last of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms to introduce its own legal offering in Germany by acquiring mid-market mergers and acquisitions specialist practice Raupach & Wollert-Elmendorff. | 13yrs
London-headquartered Norton Rose is to combine with Houston-based Fulbright & Jaworski next year, creating a global top-10 law firm with almost 4,000 lawyers. | 13yrs
The law school at King's College London is to boost its scholarship fund by £20 million following a donation from Dickson Poon, the owner of Knightsbridge department store Harvey Nichols. | 13yrs
The chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers has claimed that Chelsea Football Club and England's Football Association have 'covered-up' alleged racial comments made by referee Mark Clattenburg by not reporting them to the police. | 13yrs
Kenyan lawyers preparing to present evidence in a forthcoming International Criminal Court trial have harshly criticised proposed video links as potentially being susceptible to 'external pressure' and interference. | 13yrs
Leading London law firms -- including two magic circle players -- have committed to pay the living wage to their lowest-paid staff, including all outsourced employees. | 13yrs
A lawyer from the same firm that represented Monica Lewinsky is to represent Paula Broadwell, the biographer-turned-mistress of former CIA director David Petraeus. | 13yrs
A former Nixon Peabody partner was this week facing a potentially long prison stretch after being found guilty of a $20 million Ponzi scheme fraud in California. | 13yrs
Introduction of individual liability to Spain's criminal code coupled with greater focus on the risks of sharing information with competitors is causing serious headaches in many of the country's legal departments. | 13yrs
Global fraud has dipped for the second consecutive year, according to recent survey figures, boosting hopes that international corruption-busting measures are succeeding. | 13yrs
Canadian anti-bribery laws are being more stringently enforced, creating complex issues for local companies looking to capitalise on emerging markets, specialist risk analysts warn. | 13yrs
A leading lawyer jumps from one tech giant to another, tweeting as she goes, while the American Red Cross, JP Morgan, BP Europa and Applied Materials all see in-house changes | 13yrs
A round-up of recent deals and the lawyers who made them happen | 13yrs
Top Australian law firms are not providing social media training for staff and lack a clear on-line communication strategy, according to a recent study. | 13yrs
A judge has dismissed fraud claims against the John Marshall Law School and Chicago-Kent College of Law in the latest rejection of a string of similar actions. | 13yrs
Leading Vietnamese law firms are forcefully lobbying the Hanoi government to boost restrictions on foreign firms already operating or aiming to open in the jurisdiction. | 13yrs
Lawyers representing US college football and basketball players released documents earlier this week allegedly revealing that a national academic governing body was aware that students' likenesses were used without consent by a video games maker. | 13yrs
China is to name its first lawyer to head the country's Supreme People's Court in a move that throws out the tradition of appointing lay-people to the role. | 13yrs