Latest legal news

A capital move for Linklaters property lawyer, while a Moscow oil main shifts allegiances and a Philidelphia lawyer gets professional | 14yrs

Moscow-based law firm Nadimitov Ivanov & Partners has finalised a co-operation deal with Finnish finance specialist boutique practice Attorneys-at-Law Trust. | 14yrs

The case of Manitoba judge Lori Douglas took another twist this week as her lawyer made a claim that could derail an inquiry into internet nude pictures. | 14yrs

England's Legal Ombudsman is to press ahead with plans to launch a name-and-shame programme for complaints about lawyers, despite strong opposition from the legal profession and a series of delays blighting the plans. | 14yrs

Gu Kailai -- the lawyer wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai -- was earlier this week handed a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. | 14yrs

Lawyers from global firm Latham & Watkins advised Macedonia as the Balkan state saw off claims that it broke a trade agreement. | 14yrs

US courts have seen a nationwide surge in litigants in person, as the continuing tough economic climate restricts the ability of the lower-income individuals - and even the middle classes -- to instruct lawyers. | 14yrs

Regulators in England have approved the largest law firm yet as an alternative business structure in the first endorsement of a multi-licence application, it was announced today. | 14yrs

US lawyers are gearing up to sue major food industry players, claiming that wrongly labelled products and ingredients violate federal regulations. | 14yrs

Average US law school tuition fees have shot up at twice the rate of inflation despite a 25 per cent drop in applicants, recently released figures show. | 14yrs

Personal injury and property damage specialist barristers in Ireland acting against state authorities could see their fees slashed by as much as 25 per cent under a new scheme. | 14yrs

Former partners of bankrupt New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf will pay at least $70 million as part of a proposed settlement, eclipsing the $50m that they agreed to pay just at the end of last week. | 14yrs

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed allegations made by a former colleague concerning her departure from top law firm Slater & Gordon. | 14yrs

Tough times are set to continue for the US legal sector as the hard economy shows little sign of abating, a report at the end of last week from a leading financial instituition predicts. | 14yrs

A lawyer from Anglo-US law firm Hogan Lovells is ensuring that the Paralympics are screened in Haiti for the first time. | 14yrs

A legal action alleging that global law firm Covington & Burling switched client sides should be thrown out as the case is based on 'false premises', the Washington-DC-based practice claimed in court this week. | 14yrs

Former partners of now bankrupt New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf yesterday agreed to pay at least $50 million towards a settlement, reaching the minimum total the firm's advisors sought to raise. | 14yrs

A retired Nigerian judge has lashed out at lawyers and judges in the country, telling of his 'sadness' at the deteriorating state of the legal profession. | 14yrs

Pittsburgh-headquartered K&L Gates is in merger talks with Australian national law firm Middletons, the global law firm announced today, in the latest move around the increasingly febrile local legal profession market. | 14yrs