Latest legal news

British students are flocking to law school, flying in the face of dire warnings from the legal profession that career prospects are tighter than they've been for years, statistics released this week show. | 14yrs

Leading Nordic law firm Magnusson has launched its first Norwegian office in Oslo, as part of an exclusive agreement with local practice Kluge. | 14yrs

A class action suit aiming to reclaim more than AU$220m (£147m) in bank fees kicked off in Australia's High Court this week. | 14yrs

US law schools should strive harder to create ethnically diverse classes as students benefit from a racial mix on campus and in classrooms, a recent report has found. | 14yrs

A Georgia-based, Harvard-educated lawyer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for healthcare and tax fraud. | 14yrs

A clear-cut trademark infringement case has ended with a court breaking from standard US practice and awarding legal costs against the losing party. | 14yrs

Albert Yeung Sau-shing is suing Californian search engine giant Google in Hong Kong's High Court, after search results for his name on the web site returned defamatory content. | 14yrs

The deal for Standard Chartered's $340 million fine cut yesterday has rocketed what was a relatively unheard of New York state financial authority into the middle of the global regulatory spotlight. | 14yrs

General counsel in the US see the escalating risks involved with IT and cyber security as the main threat to their organisations' operations and reputation, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

Two interns who last year sued over their unpaid work on the psychological thriller film Black Swan have filed a further action against all internships offered by a major Hollywood studio. | 14yrs

Compensation claims for clinical negligence have gone through the roof, with the head of the UK's Medical Defence Union claiming the rise of legal action is 'unmatched' in the company's 126-year history. | 14yrs

The senior partner at one of the world's biggest law firms is to chair a new board overseeing a high-profile legal profession social mobility programme. | 14yrs

The owner of a web site providing links to illegally copied films and television shows has been sentenced to four years in a British prison. | 14yrs

One of the US's most important commercial jurisdictions has clarified its corporate law to allow post-merger legal actions in cases of fraud or fundamental unfairness. | 14yrs

Australia's in-house lawyers risk of losing personal assets to pay legal fees incurred when their employers lose battles with the country's corporate regulator, a leading law firm practitioner has warned. | 14yrs

New York's top financial regulator has launched an assault on the legal department of Standard Chartered, claiming that the London-headquartered bank evaded regulations and hid $250 billion of transactions tied to Iran. | 14yrs

Women lawyers working for corporations are making significantly more professional progress than their private practice counterparts, recent research illustrates. | 14yrs

Struggling Yahoo appoints a new general counsel to go with its fifth chief executive in as many years, while one lawyer moves from fish to cows to fowl | 14yrs

The government of India's second largest state has announced it will consider creating laws to protect lawyers, as well as introducing measures to assist entrants into the legal profession. | 14yrs