Latest legal news

Anthony Salz takes reins of Libor rigging investigation | 14yrs

A Wiltshire solicitor who was shot in the head with a shotgun while he worked at his office has died in hospital from his injuries, it was reported yesterday. | 14yrs

Lawyers in Sri Lanka have protested over the last few days against a government minister who allegedly intimidated a magistrate in the Tamil dominated district of Mannar. | 14yrs

The estate of defunct Washington DC law firm Howrey has stepped up its efforts to recover what could amount to millions of dollars to repay creditors. | 14yrs

A law firm providing services to foreign residents - including those applying for refugee or resident status - is to open in Tokyo in response to recent government moves to amend the country's immigration laws. | 14yrs

Proview Technology is being sued by its own law firm - Beijing-headquartered Grandall Law Firm - over its failure to pay the lawyers a share of its recent Apple patent settlement. | 14yrs

Published by: Cambridge University Press Author: Heather Harrison Dinniss July 2012 H/B £65.00 ISBN: 978-1107011083 | 14yrs

Published by: Harvill Secker Author: Clive Stafford Smith July 2012 H/B £20.00 ISBN: 978-1846556258 | 14yrs

Chelsea Football Club captain John Terry may have been found not guilty over a charge of a racially aggravated public order offence relating to an on-pitch incident involving defender Anton Ferdinand, but he had some rough moments during the trial. | 14yrs

A cash-strapped freelance writer from Albuquerque in New Mexico has been thwarted in her attempts to make some cash by selling her soul on auction web site eBay. | 14yrs

A club in Florida's West Palm Beach is looking to launch legal proceedings against Nadya Suleman - better known as 'Octomom' after she gave birth to Octuplets in 2009. | 14yrs

Despite losing its chief executive and being fined nearly £300 million by US and UK regulators for rigging interbank lending rates, Barclays Bank has decided to take on Mother Nature and offer help to customers affected by the sodden British summer. | 14yrs

In a story that will chime with many music lovers, teenage pop star Justin Bieber is facing a $9.2 million lawsuit after a fan allegedly suffered hearing loss and severe tinnitus after attending one of his concerts in July 2010. | 14yrs

A couple from Colorado has criticised local authorities for treating the theft of a 'Vote Satan' banner as burglary rather than a hate crime. | 14yrs

Can you judge someone by their Twitter followers? That is the question put by Trevor Pott on the blog page of UK technology website, The Register. | 14yrs

'In England, the accountants rule. But it's the lawyers who are dominant in business in the United States,' says Brett Farrell, in a blog on The Lawyer newspaper's website. | 14yrs

The Law Society of Scotland recently released a guide for law firms that use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, which covers media policy, data and legal implications, risk and ethical and security considerations. | 14yrs

Barclays, and other major banks, should press the reset button and appoint lawyers to their top jobs instead of identikit chief executive officers, says Eduardo Reyes in his blog for London-based weekly, the Law Gazette. | 14yrs

Offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has promoted three lawyers to its partnership. | 14yrs