Latest legal news

New York-based law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has appointed veteran restructuring and insolvency lawyer Yushan Ng to its London office. | 14yrs

English law firms Dickson Dees and Bond Pearce have confirmed they have entered discussions over a merger which could create a firm with revenues of more than £90 million - putting it into the UK top 40. | 14yrs

Independent French firm Stehlin & Associes has announced a new international strategy after declining to merge with UK firm Osborne Clarke earlier this year. | 14yrs

Irish property developer Paddy McKillen will be hit with a legal bill of up to €25.5 million (£20.45m) after his legal action against the Barclay brothers over the ownership of three London hotels failed. | 14yrs

More than half of US divorce lawyers claim that postnuptial agreements have risen in the last three years, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

US electric utilities giant Pepco Holdings has announced the appointment of Kevin Fitzgerald as executive vice president and general counsel of the company and its utility subsidiaries. | 14yrs

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has selected its first panel of external legal advisors with six law firms making the cut. | 14yrs

Corporate legal departments have increased their use of requests for proposal from in-house law departments, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

Online retailer Amazon has joined the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple by hiring a high-profile privacy lawyer. | 14yrs

Green policies no longer get the green light at the table of the UK government. But there is still light at the end of the tunnel, says Michael Hutchinson. | 14yrs

The wife of former German President Christian Wulff has included search engine giant Google in legal action to end allegations over her private life. | 14yrs

A Brazilian federal judge has agreed to hold the first war trial for alleged crimes by two members of its former dictatorship during the military's rule from 1964 to 1985. | 14yrs

Czech law firm Peterka & Partners is eyeing up Belarus's privatisation programme as it opens an office in Minsk. | 14yrs

A proposed law change which could see company directors given gaol time for not acting in the best interest of a business has been slated by one of New Zealand's largest law firms. | 14yrs

Boston-based global law firm Brown Rudnick has bolstered its white collar defence and government investigations practice on both sides of the Atlantic with key hires in Washington DC and London. | 14yrs

The representative body of more than one million European lawyers has called on EU institutions to create a single comprehensive and high level data protection regime. | 14yrs

The Paris office of London's magic circle law firm Clifford Chance has become entangled in a legal battle with two female non-lawyer employees. | 14yrs

Chinese conglomerate Shandong Heavy Industry is set to invest €738 million into Wiesbaden forklift manufacturer Kion, in by far the largest direct Chinese investment into Germany to date. | 14yrs

Studying for a law school entrance exam can alter your brain structure and make you smarter, a recent research paper has claimed. | 14yrs