A legal battle between Minnesota's 3M and its former outside law firm is causing rumblings of discontent among in-house lawyers over potential conflicts of interest. | 14yrs
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In house developments at Lloyds Banking, Amerigon Incorporate and Burford Group | 14yrs
English law firm Pinsent Masons has shot to the top of a league table of practices advising smaller companies following its merger with Scottish firm McGrigors earlier this year. | 14yrs
Freshfields bagged the top slot, but other practices of all sizes are also hovering around the park | 14yrs
American law schools are boosting scholarships and allowing late applications to fill spaces in response to a significant fall in applications resulting from the harsh economic climate. | 14yrs
Pakistan's President has sacked 18 federal law officers and recruited 23 replacements in an apparent political move that also saw significant changes to the roster of the Lahore Supreme Court made on Monday. | 14yrs
One of the world's biggest and most influential law firms has streamlined its organisation by adopting an all-equity partnership structure -- a move that has generated £30m in partner capital. | 14yrs
The disciplinary system for English barristers is rife with 'systematic failures', a report released earlier this week has found. | 14yrs
They gave us the credit crunch of 2007, now experts in the US are forecasting that the Americans will launch the next debt crisis - in legal education. | 14yrs
Global law firms casting a hopeful eye towards South America as a route out of recessionary blues elsewhere could be in for a rougher ride than anticipated in Brazil as the authorities there are rumoured to be imposing strict foreign practice rules. | 14yrs
Legal profession fees in Ireland are rocketing despite the country facing some of the worst economic conditions since independence, government statistics from Dublin suggest. | 14yrs
Kenya's legal profession authorities are seeking to block legislation enabling foreign lawyers and judges to work in the country. | 14yrs
University law courses in Uganda are creating 'half-baked' lawyers unfit for practice, a senior specialist academic in the country claims. | 14yrs
Gambling giant William Hill is preparing a legal challenge against the British government's proposed 'point of consumption tax', which could see 15 per cent of the company's on-line gambling profits going to the Treasury by the end of 2014. | 14yrs
Gu Kailai -- the lawyer wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai -- has been charged with the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, according to local news reports. | 14yrs
The husband of Canadian judge Lori Douglas has testified that a scandal involving sexual harassment and nude photos of his wife was 'well known' to the legal community. | 14yrs
London-based international law firm LG suffered a hammer blow to its latest financial figures, with profit per equity partner (PEP) tumbling by 26 per cent and revenue also dropping for a second consecutive year. | 14yrs
The former finance chief at the Adelaide arm of Sydney-based law firm Minter Ellison has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in gaol after he admitted to stealing AU$2.7 million (£1.8m) from the firm. | 14yrs
Motivated by stories of unfair and unpaid internships, law student Clair Seaborn has launched the Canadian Internship Association in a bid to improve early working experiences for students and graduates. | 14yrs
Prosecutors have charged one of London's leading clinical negligence lawyers with a £600,000 tax fraud that they say spanned more than 10 years. | 14yrs