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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

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