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Recession-related litigation is rocketing, with the number of contract claims in the UK's High Court increasing by nearly 50 per cent last year, recently released government figures show. | 14yrs

A leading British law school is to risk the wrath of French traditionalists by launching an English language post-graduate course in Paris. | 14yrs

Survey exposes suspicions of rampant workplace wrongdoing in UK and US sectors | 14yrs

A former lawyer has been arrested in Toronto after allegedly pocketing more than $2 million from the sale of a retirement home. | 14yrs

London head-quartered global law firm Clyde & Co has announced today that it is to open an office in Tripoli, the firm's fifth in the Middle East and North Africa region. | 14yrs

Clifford Chance is at the front of the London magic circle law firm pack as the leading firms joust for slices of UK mergers & acquisitions pie, according to figures released this week. | 14yrs

Patent assertions by non-practising entities - so called trolls - are costing global companies some $29 billion annually, with as much as a third of that bill being picked up by small and medium sized businesses. | 14yrs

A mix of Anglo-US global law firms and two local players has bagged seats on the inaugural legal panel for the company building a network of rail projects in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. | 14yrs

Arne Wittig is set to leave his chief legal officer role at Deutsche Bank to become general counsel at German steel and industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp. | 14yrs

Virginia-headquartered Freddie Mac - the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation - announced that William McDavid will become its executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. | 14yrs

A Manhattan bankruptcy court has given approval to several professional firms hoping to advise the estate of now defunct New York law firm Dewey & LeBouef, while only legal practice Proskauer Rose has been denied. | 14yrs

Global corporate giants are still not sufficiently open regarding anti-corruption measures, according to a hard-hitting report released today. | 14yrs

A British judge has deemed Apple's popular iPad device 'too cool' to be confused with a rival model from South Korean manufacturer Samsung | 14yrs

One-time Hollywood love birds, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, have quickly reached an agreement in their divorce, represented by two of New York's leading matrimonial law firms. | 14yrs

One of the world's biggest law firms is to walk a conflicts tightrope in the interbank interest rate rigging scandal currently rampaging through the British banking sector, it emerged yesterday. | 14yrs

Benelux full-service law firm Stibbe - a former alliance partner of London-based global practice Herbert Smith - is to launch a Hong Kong office to assist Chinese clients with European investments. | 14yrs

Global general counsel answer our big question | 14yrs

Leading law firm partners answer the big questions | 14yrs

A Lorain Municipal Court Judge in Ohio has held a local man in contempt because his trousers were riding so low that his underwear was exposed. | 14yrs