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Politicians in the US and UK - especially President Barack Obama - claim to be keen on encouraging skilled business immigration to kick-start economic growth. But, argue David Grunblatt and Edward Wanambwa, the laws they must apply and the | 14yrs

Confusion continues to swirl around a recently-imposed tax on legal services in India that has already triggered strike action by local lawyers. | 14yrs

A lawyer who was set to represent Pope Benedict XVI's former butler has walked away from the brief after clashing with his client over differences in defence strategy. | 14yrs

London-based law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse today opens a representative office in Silicon Valley as part of a US strategy aimed at attracting instructions from the heartland of the Californian technology scene. | 14yrs

Mid-level associates at some of America's top law firms are happier than they have been for years, despite layoffs, salary freezes and the loss of bonuses, researchers have found. | 14yrs

The global legal outsourcing market has crashed through the $1 billion mark and is booming at an annual growth rate of 32 per cent, a study released today claims. | 14yrs

The London High Court judge overseeing the battle between Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky has lambasted the 'heavily lawyered' approach to the case for undermining witness statements. | 14yrs

Russian companies want to list in London for a variety of reasons. But, ask Kate Ball-Dodd and Simon Allison, will the trend continue? | 14yrs

Greece is facing austerity like no other country in Europe as a result of more than two years of constant recession and the eurozone debt crisis. Effie Mitsopoulou assess the impact on recent employment legislation | 14yrs

A US federal judge has ruled that previously undisclosed communications regarding a former University of Iowa general counsel and his handling of a sexual assault case should be made public. | 14yrs

The former chief information officer at Chicago-headquartered law firm Mayer Brown was charged yesterday with defrauding the global practice of at least $850,000. | 14yrs

Three of the six publishers accused of price-fixing in the US e-book market have agreed a settlement of $69 million -- but the deal will result in only small returns to consumers across America. | 14yrs

Police yesterday arrested News International's former legal advisor Tom Crone in connection with Britain's ongoing 'phone hacking scandal. | 14yrs

With governments across the world eager to sniff out missing tax revenues and the wealth management sector evolving rapidly, specialist lawyers need to take a world view, suggest Marnin Michaels and Marie-Thérèse Yates | 14yrs

The law firm of the lawyer who conducted a recent damning enquiry into sexual abuses at a top US college football programme is to merge with leading Philadelphia-based national practice Pepper Hamilton. | 14yrs

Australian lawyers are increasingly convinced that the local market has become saturated with global players and that the recent merger mania involving English and US firms has run its course. | 14yrs

The dog days of summer in the northern hemisphere normally witness little by way of legal profession press coverage -- but this month has been very lively. | 14yrs

Kuwaiti investment firm National Industries Group (NIG) has claimed that the Carlyle Group sold it a fixed income fund in 2006 without a proper licence, demonstrating the potholes that exist for US and European private equity firms in the area. | 14yrs

Leading US lawyers have refused attempts to extinguish the discussion of non-lawyer ownership of firms across the country's many jurisdictions. | 14yrs