The body representing Australia's biggest law firms is calling for lawyers in Queensland to clarify their position on proposed legal profession regulatory reforms, amid fears from local practitioners that a new regime will ratchet up practice costs. | 14yrs
Legal communications must be given ironclad protection in any legislation revising surveillance powers in the UK, the body representing England's barristers said this week. | 14yrs
A New York county judge should be permanently banned from public office in New York after allegedly admitting to having sexual contact with his five-year-old deaf niece 40 years ago, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended. | 14yrs
Two leading lawyers have weighed into the row over controversial statements on rape and abortion made by the Republican Party candidate for a Missouri Senate seat. | 14yrs
Dwindling cash flow is a practice headache reaching crisis proportions for many UK law firms, results from the latest management research in the sector shows. | 14yrs
The vast majority of British legal professionals say their individual workload requires more than one person, and that the average working week in the profession is equivalent to eight days, recent research reveals. | 14yrs
Legal profession authorities in Canada have launched a trio of initiatives aimed at improving access to justice, preparing the legal profession for the future and assisting law firms to measure diversity. | 14yrs
Philippines President Benigno Aquino has begun the interview process to appoint a new chief justice following the removal of Renata Corona, who was convicted by a senate impeachment court in May. | 14yrs
Regulators have given the green light to the first law firm with private equity backing as part of the revolution sweeping through practice structures in England, it was announced today. | 14yrs
Family of 'big four' accountancy lawyer calls for inquiry following death at Connecticut home | 14yrs
Mass media business News Corp has set up a global ethics team at the instigation of its founder, chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch, and against the backdrop of on-going concerns over 'phone hacking allegations in the UK. | 14yrs
Corporate counsel at Canadian technology, manufacturing, automotive and aerospace industries have benefited from rocketing wage packets over the last two years, according to a recent study. | 14yrs
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